Archive for March, 2008

The West Virginia state legislature has passed an important bill that will reduce false allegations of child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and parental interference. Men and Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD) led the lobbying to get this passed. Bill 3065 is perhaps the first of its kind — a massive improvement over prior “wild... »

"The fact that women travel less than men – measured in person- kilometers per car, plane, boat and motorcycle – means that women cause considerably fewer CO2 emissions than men and thus considerable less climate change. "If women’s consumption levels were to be the norm, both emissions and climate change would be significantly less than... »

Newspapers internationally reported that cellular telephone use increases the risk of brain tumors, citing the opinion of Vini Khurana, an Australian neurosurgeon. According to the Mobile Operators Association, Dr. Khurana’s conclusion “does not present a balanced analysis” and “reaches opposite conclusions to the World Health Organization and more than 30 other independent expert scientific... »

I'm not sure if anything any public figure has ever said has surprised me less than the following. In a recent blog post, www.feministing.com editor Vanessa Valenti blogs live from the Women, Action & the Media conference at MIT. Vanessa writes: "Amanda Marcotte (pictured) talks about how a reproductive justice framework 'makes it easier to... »

by Angry Harry MRAs (Men’s Rights Activists) need now to prepare for the horrors that are in store for them. Over the next two years or so they are going to see their countries continue to decline both economically and socially, and they are very likely to find themselves also having to deal with an... »

When I was a boy, I just could not sit still in class. I was very bored and active by nature, so I would rock my chair back, whisper and write notes to kids, even wander around the classroom–until the teacher yelled, “Martin, sit down!” This was decades ago. Today, I suspect I would have... »

The lamestream media told you: Reeling from wave after wave of gun crime, cities across America have filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers and the gun industry in general, to try to halt the senseless violence they initiate. These righteous lawsuits seek compensation for the acts of criminals, and are being waged by decent upstanding lawyers... »

From Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families: Ned Holstein: Major Progress Towards Shared Parenting Boston, MA-Fathers & Families has made major progress towards passage of shared parenting legislation in Massachusetts, and these gains can be exported to other states. Here are our major accomplishments: We demonstrated that ordinary people overwhelmingly support shared parenting... »

Be forewarned; Al Gore hasn’t given up. He’s going after public “consensus” on global warming before the public gets a strong enough whiff of the strengthening scientific and economic evidence against him. It has been reported that his far-left political (and environmental business PR) organization, the “Alliance for Climate Protection”, will launch an ad campaign... »

Wikinews has obtained a copy of a classified memo from the Commander of US forces in western Iraq, Major General John Kelly. The document, which was obtained via Wikileaks, features Kelly describing Fallujah city jail as a jail with “unbelievable over crowding, total lack of anything approaching even minimal levels of hygiene for human... »

Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has told followers, the Mahdi Army militia, to stop fighting Iraqi and coalition forces and to cooperate with them. This comes after six days of fierce fighting in Iraq’s southern city of Basra, Baghdad and other Shi’a areas that has left over 240 to 250 dead. The statement and offer came from... »

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), released premature election results on Sunday, which claim a large victory for their presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai against incumbent Robert Mugabe. MDC leaders said the unofficial tally, based on one-third of the election returns, shows Tsvangirai with 67% of the vote. The results were posted... »

The end of the Cold War meant a significant change in the nature of the foreign threats to US security. The principal worry of most Americans is no longer a devastating military offensive from abroad, but rather more insidious assaults which hit closer to home, threatening lives and property and creating a climate of... »

The lamestream media told you: “In what could be described as a monsoon dew-over, the National Weather Service will abandon its decades-old system of using dew points to mark the onset of summer thunderstorms and simply set a date,” writes Shaun McKinnon, on the lead page-one story for the Arizona Republic, entitled, “This Year We’ll... »

Let me get this straight. You mean Hollywood just released “Stop Loss,” yet another in a recent spate of Iraq war movies, and as usual, attendance was dismal? Gee, I wonder why nobody’s going to see these movies? According to Nikki Finke in his “Deadline Hollywood” column, an anonymous “studio source” provided this... »

OK, let me get this straight. In order to “protect consumers,” the State of Illinois is considering a law that almost seems like a good idea at first hearing. Currently, Illinois taxpayers can claim their unclaimed property, lost or abandoned property or overpaid property taxes for free. All an Illinois citizen need do is... »

Dr. Laura recently aroused some hackles when she speculated about marriages like the Spitzer in which the husband is unfaithful that his straying is because his wife is not doing her duties to attend to him psychologically and/or sexually. Glenn Sacks has in turn defended Dr. Laura on this count. I think it is important... »

A few weeks ago I stood in a small house in a local high-density suburb addressing a meeting of about 150 people crammed into every corner. I said to them that what we needed to end the crisis in Zimbabwe was a political Tsunami. I said a Tsunami could not be detected on the... »

So Hillary was caught in a brazen lie about her 1996 trip to Bosnia, in which she lately claims to have landed in the midst of a sniper attack, even having to duck and run for cover at the airfield. Is anyone surprised? Certainly nobody who has dispassionately observed the Clintons on the national... »

"But as I sat in the stands of my local indoor soccer facility, watching my son's under-12 boys team being physically abused by a girls team, I couldn't help but wonder if perhaps feminism has finally gone too far. "During the game, I saw a female player actually punch one of our boys in the... »