There is more to life than sensual gratification. Reading Anthony Daniels’s At the Forest’s Edge in the New Criterion website, one is reminded of the superficiality of the liberal-progressive philosophical foundation. Mr. Daniels ruminates about the analyses of modernity expressed by Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents and by Jose Ortega y Gasset...
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"Being a divorced dad doesn't necessarily make David C. Stone an effective advocate for fathers. But it certainly doesn't hurt. 'I understand what they're going through,' says the 57-year-old sole practitioner, whose family law practice caters almost exclusively to men. 'I've been married three times; I've given away houses. I also had visitation rights...
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"Being a divorced dad doesn't necessarily make David C. Stone an effective advocate for fathers. But it certainly doesn't hurt. 'I understand what they're going through,' says the 57-year-old sole practitioner, whose family law practice caters almost exclusively to men. 'I've been married three times; I've given away houses. I also had visitation rights...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Military Divorce Rate Holding Steady (Associated Press, 3-1-08)
Some child-support recipients to pay annual service charge (Examiner, 2-29-08)
Evangelical stance on divorce is changing (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3-1-08)
Man to get child support back (Augusta Chronicle, 3-2-08)
Who's your daddy? (Lancaster Online, 3-2-08)
Court...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Military Divorce Rate Holding Steady (Associated Press, 3-1-08)
Some child-support recipients to pay annual service charge (Examiner, 2-29-08)
Evangelical stance on divorce is changing (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3-1-08)
Man to get child support back (Augusta Chronicle, 3-2-08)
Who's your daddy? (Lancaster Online, 3-2-08)
Court...
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Dimitry Medvedev, age 42, has won the presidential election in Russia and is expected to take office on May 7, 2008, replacing Vladimir Putin who has served two 4-year presidential terms since 2000. The elections were held on Sunday, March 2, and participation among registered voters was 69.65%. On Monday morning, Russian Central Election...
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The Colombian government says it has recovered documents from the computers of slain FARC rebels that show financial ties between the leftist guerrillas and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Speaking at a press conference Monday, Colombia’s national police chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo said the evidence suggests Chavez had recently given $300 million to the Revolutionary...
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A twenty-four year old Wheaton, Illinois resident was arrested for making e-mail threats against the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. Mahtab Shirani was nabbed on Tuesday by members of the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), according to John W. Richardson, Chief of the University Police Department. Shirani was charged in a criminal complaint...
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"Parental Alienation involves taking advantage of the suggestibility and dependency of children for the sole purpose of destroying a loving relationship they once shared with a parent."
The Parental Alienation Awareness Organization/ www.Parental-Alienation-Awareness.com is making progress in gaining recognition of Parental Alienation, as nine U.S. states and the British territory of Bermuda have declared April 25 "Parental Alienation...
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Despite the short month, our blog traffic was up again. For February we received 427,850 unique visits, a pace of almost 5.5 million a year and a gain of over 1,000 a day from January. The blog also received 5,633 comments on 109 posts, an average of 194 per day and 52 per post. With...
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WFB’s legacy was building up the intellectual side of conservatism and coalescing conservative factions, which set the groundwork for conservatives to win victory in the political election and campaign realm with the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The passing of William F. Buckley, Jr., who died this past Thursday at 82, represents the loss of...
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By Alan Caruba Those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s almost universally look back on those days with great fondness. Born into an era that saw the end of the Depression and living as children through World War II, we were nonetheless somehow shielded from it by parents who took...
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The Alamo mission at San Antonio was in its 7th day of being assaulted by thousands of Santa Anna’s troops. By the 13th day, Santa Anna’s “take-no-prisoner” policy had all 189 defenders killed, including Jim Bowie and former U.S. Congressman Davy Crockett. The only Texas army left in the field was Col. James Fannin’s....
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"The real issue here is that our patriarchal society can't deal with the fact that men have lost control of a number of their women, after years of being able to have their cake and eat it too."
From Ruby, a feminist reader:
"Men, if you don't want a baby, stop feigning 'shock and awe' [when...
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The Los Angeles Times article Next speaker enjoys broad support (3/2/08) details the rise of Karen Bass, the incoming leader of the California assembly and the first African American woman to be elected to lead a legislative house in the U.S. The piece was a nice example of the subtle and not-so-subtle societal bias...
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