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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER As the Publisher of MensNewsDaily.com, I must make decisions that in my sole judgment are beneficial to the long-term health and well-being of this publication. Back in 2002, MND became a charter member of  Google News when that service was in beta. MND’s article archive on Google News reaches back to May,... »

Listening on my iPod through the Clear Harmony headphones, about 20 minutes into the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, an alien space ship is approaching the Mall in Washington DC. There is the din of sirens in the background and soldiers passing in progression. You hear a braided cocking of machine guns,... »

LaSalle here. Chapin’s been busy out there on the lake. His latest article has just been published at Pajama’s Media: a fine review of Glenn Beck’s Dose of Common Sense for America. ‘Knowing the unpredictability of his personality,” Chapin tells us, “I was somewhat skeptical regarding the merits of his new book… Luckily, my fears... »

Received via Phil Cook… WWW.MENSENEWS.ORG A new newsletter and website devoted to issues concerning men is now available! MensENews.org will post current news stories from around the nation on our website daily. MensEnews.org is offering a free newsletter service where you can get your news delivered right to your email. There are four unique newsletters to... »

MND reader Steven DeLuca comments about an article appearing in today’s edition of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Sunday, May 24, 2009, under VOICES… “A time to rejoice and a time to be heart broken” (click to open in new window) “Emma Shaw Crane was chosen as the top student out of 6,800... »

Recently it was my privilege to hear an extraordinary audio podcast by MND’s own Amfortas, responding to a series of questions by interviewers John Dias and Christian J. The transcript is below. Right click to download the MP3s — lasalle Part I of this transcript available here. Audio: (part 1) (part 2) TRANSCRIPT PART II Hello, This is... »

Recently it was my privilege to hear an extraordinary audio podcast by  MND’s own Amfortas, responding to a series of questions by interviewers John Dias and Christian J. The transcript is below. Right click to download the MP3s — lasalle Audio: (part 1) (part 2) Part II of this transcript available here. Who Is Amfortas? Q. Tell us... »

In his article, Where Are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (PDF here), Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom has raised some very troubling questions. According to Bostrom, one must wonder what to make of the apparent absence of intelligent civilizations in the universe:  the statistical probabilities suggest the universe ought to... »

Last week on Fox News, Glenn Beck interviewed PETA spokesman Matt Prescott about a UN Report calling out the meat industry as the #1 cause of Global Warming. According to Prescott, the report issued by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),  “found that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all... »

Alec Baldwin made a promise to cherish his marriage until death. He broke that promise, and then made another: to protect his daughter from the tumult of his divorce. And then he broke that promise, too. An alpha male conspicuously privileged by God,  Baldwin would seem to have no need of “father’s rights” or “men’s rights”,... »

One day after receiving the endorsement of the Libertarian Party’s leading presidential candidate, a new poll commissioned by the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee found that seven percent of likely voters said they would vote for the former Georgia congressman if he were a presidential candidate. The poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research also... »

One man’s magic is another man’s science. Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called “The Wonders of Intelligent Design.” Strachan writes: “There’s a difference in the things that God creates, and the stuff that men and women design, a... »

In Expelled: The Movie, economist, lawyer, presidential speech-writer, and all-around media personality Ben Stein will stare down the brutes of Establishment Academia with a singularly profound question: can modern cosmology offer any evidence of Intelligent Design in the universe? The answer to this question can have unanticipated consequences, as Astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez learned... »

Keaau, Hawaii – With Hurricane Flossie bearing down on Hawaii, an earthquake measuring a magnitude 5.3 has struck the Big Island. The US Geological Survey placed the epicenter  some 26 miles South of Hilo, Hawaii. The temblor occurred at 7:38 PM local time. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Watch and a Tropical Storm... »

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I attended De La Salle High School. My pseudonym, “Mike LaSalle”, is an homage to the founder of the Christian Brothers schools, Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle. I have an Associate degree in Geology from Diablo Valley College in... »

Amateur scholar and information technologist Slavisa Pesci says he has discovered hidden figures in “The Last Supper,” Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15th-century masterpiece. Pesci first reversed the image of the famed painting… By super-imposing the reversed image on the original image, Pesci discovered what appears to be a figure holding a baby (center left). The image also... »

The Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a “naked” protest in White Plains, New York yesterday. The target of the protest was British fashion house, Burberry, and their fur practices. Two “naked” female PETA members, wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and body paint held billboards with the slogan, “When... »

Hundreds of legal, highly-skilled workers in the United States sent hundreds of flowers to the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Emilio Gonzalez as part of a symbolic and peaceful protest over what they said was a “flip-flop” by the State Department and the USCIS on eliminating Green card processing... »

On Friday, anonymous threats were sent to the evolutionary biology labs at the University of Colorado at Boulder by email and workers returned to their labs Monday morning to find threatening messages slipped under their doors. The threats mention a group affiliated with creationism, but police did not release the name of the group... »

Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy has completed a three day visit to Ghana. During his visit, he met President John Kufuor at the Osu Castle. They highlighted the bonds between Ghana and Italy and past cooperation such as the building of the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam and AGIP’s involvement in Ghana’s petroleum business. Napolitano also... »