According to the press, collegiality and even love now abounds among nations that excoriated the United States and its former President, George W. Bush, only months ago. In wonderful contrast, they extol America for its openness and professed willingness to sit down and talk with adversaries. At least that is the picture that Obama’s...
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Much news is being made that a researcher at the Italian National Physical Laboratory of Gran Sasso, Giampaolo Giuliani, predicted the events that have devastated the town of L’Aquila in central Italy. Government officials shut him down for “spreading alarm,†prior to the actual catastrophic earthquake. There is an important lesson here, and we...
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President Obama says the economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Actually, it is the worst since the Reagan recession of 1982-83. Further, the 2009 market crash is not the worst since 1929 but since 1987â€â€also on Ronald Reagan’s watch. What did Reagan doâ€â€or, more importantly, didn’t doâ€â€in response to these “crises?†How...
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Whether by disease, accident, murder or suicide, losing a child is one of the worst experiences a person could face. Another tragedy that ranks at the top of the list is having a missing child. Strangers abduct a small percentage of these children. Most are abducted by one of their parents. There’s one type...
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“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball†–Jacques Barzun Right off the bat, Jacques Barzun’s pitch about baseball strikes us today as coming out of left field. First asserted in the 1950s, his famous assessment of baseball’s place in American culture then seemed to cover all the...
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Chicago, IL – The death of Duncan and Jack Connolly, two Illinois children allegedly murdered by their father Michael Connolly, touched many people’s hearts. I lament this terrible tragedy. However, as a fathers’ rights advocate and attorney, I regret that this case is now reinforcing the malicious stereotype of the brutal father, potentially sabotaging...
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Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn’t stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers. Toni Brown of Washington, DC was shot by former girlfriend Raina Johnson on August 12, 2008, leaving the...
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Health Report: “A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers…” By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated: 04/05/2009 The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author. Please consult with your physician before making any lifestyle or...
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One of the favorite refrains of the class-warfare left has long been to lament what it perceives as a division in America between economic haves and have-nots. From the standpoint of egalitarian, socialistic philosophy, the fact that some Americans prosper more than others is prima facie evidence of injustice. It is considered unfair that...
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The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is not Enough. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 2001. Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, co-authors of the excellent Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (1999), have published their second book together. The Feminist Dilemma: When Success...
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Chicago, IL – A non-violent felony conviction has landed Juan behind bars for the next three years. As Juan is trying to adjust to prison life, his young son is trying to adjust to life without a father. Juan, like countless numbers of inmates in Illinois, is locked up in a correctional facility far...
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If media disparity is all that is necessary for the conservative base to be scattered and dispersed, it is guaranteed that nobody on the right will ever move into the limelight without receiving this inevitable scrutiny. And at that point they will just as inevitably be found wanting, and marked for rejection at the...
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