Sex & Metropolis
The Double Standard About Bias in Journalism
From John Stossel: I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, “Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel’s speaking engagements as the latest evidence of conservative bias on the part of Fox.” Which “critics” had... »
Prosectuors investigate “Innocence Project” team
From CNN.com… …In our investigation, we reenacted the crime scene and determined it was impossible to discern any words spoken or shouted from 50 yards away. Later, we tracked down the then-teenage witness who said he saw McKinney that night. The man recanted his testimony on videotape, and told us police beat him. We also found a... »
Normalizing Deviance: TV Show on vampires is violent, vulgar, explicit – and aimed at kids
From the UK Daily Mail… Any parent with a teenager will be painfully aware that for impressionable young TV viewers, there’s nothing sexier than a vampire – and it’s got nothing to do with Halloween. Channel 4’s latest attempt to seduce us with a mixture of swearing and sex comes in the form of True Blood,... »
Title IX Trojan Horse
At issue is a move by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate liberal arts college admissions. The inquiry was begun based on reports that many private liberal arts colleges — struggling to have anything close to parity between male and female students — favor male applicants. Private undergraduate colleges generally are considered to... »
Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire
Energy Department funnels $560 million of $3.4 billion in smart grid grants to Al Gore and partners. »
If I’m So Crazy, Then Why Do People Keep Having Sex With Me?
Satire from The Onion… You know, I’m getting really sick of this. I am a perfectly normal, fully functioning adult, and yet it seems like every other day someone tells me that I need to get professional psychiatric help and probably be put on some sort of medication. Well, if I’m so batty, then answer... »
Harry Stein: What “Mad Men” Gets Wrong
… we kids growing up in the fifties were better off in all sorts of ways. Mad Men has lots of fun showing the Drapers heedlessly clouding their children in secondhand smoke and letting them run around in dry-cleaner cellophane. But in that less fearful and blissfully P.C.-free age, we also learned independence and... »
Daddies be damned! Who are the British women who think fathers are irrelevant?
From the Daily Mail (UK): Having reached the age of 38 without meeting Mr Right, Karen Shefras decided to become a mother by using donated sperm. As a result, Karen, who runs her own company, has never met her ten-month-old daughter’s father. The closest she came to him was at the clinic where five of her... »
Report: UK police categorize political activists as ‘domestic extremists’
By Stephen C. Webster@rawstory: British police inspectors have been building a massive, secret database containing personal information on thousands of otherwise innocent political activists, an investigative report revealed Sunday. “The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor ‘domestic extremists’, the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed... »
“It’s time for you to die!” – Muslim woman tries to slit husband’s throat
A soft-spoken Muslim woman tried to slit her Staten Island husband’s throat as he slept – enraged that he made her eat pork and wear sexy skirts, officials said. “It’s time for you to die!” screamed Rabia Sarwar as she pounced on hubby Sheikh Naseem, sources said. He woke early Wednesday to find her straddling his... »
Ron Paul: Be prepared for the worst
Be Prepared for the Worst by Ron Paul Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. Many of these are... »
Man loses testicle after random attack by woman
From the Calgary Herald… Men walking about in Langley should be wary after a woman viciously kicked a man in the groin, causing him to lose a testicle. ….the force of the assault had caused his testicle to rupture. It had to be removed and will be replaced by a prosthetic before Christmas. Embarrassed by the situation,... »
No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells
From the Daily Mail… Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own. But it raises a number of moral and... »
This Is Your Brain Without Dad
From the Wall Street Journal Online: Conventional wisdom holds that two parents are better than one. Scientists are now finding that growing up without a father actually changes the way your brain develops. German biologist Anna Katharina Braun and others are conducting research on animals that are typically raised by two parents, in the hopes... »
India: ‘Make Domestic Violence Act gender neutral’
New Delhi: About 100 people staged a protest against the Domestic Violence Act in the capital Sunday saying it was “full of loopholes” and needed to be made “gender neutral”. Activists of Save the Family Foundation, who organised the protest, said that service providers must ensure that the law is made more gender neutral to... »
Selective Concern On Sex Imbalances
Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, 61 percent of all master’s degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and... »
Thoughts on The Quiverfull Movement
From John Dias of misandryreview.com… This is an interesting article about a phenomenon known as the Quiverfull movement. This movement promotes cultural separation from the secular and feminist culture, promoting as an alternative a patriarchal family-oriented structure based on Christian beliefs and male headship. What I find striking is that political conservatism is often embraced by... »
Has the American Family Court System Become Totalitarian?
From MRA author Stephen Baskerville… A review of Taken Into Custody has just been published by the economist Jennifer Roback-Morse in the prestigious scholarly journal, The Family in America: http://www.familyinamerica.org/roback.php. She reviewed it together with Alec Baldwin’s book on his divorce ordeal, A Promise to Ourselves , so it is sure to... »
India: Launch of Andhra Pradesh Mothers-in-law Protection Association (APMPA)
HYDERABAD, INDIA – Mothers-in-law in our country are being severely discriminated against, neglected and subjected to all forms of domestic abuse over the last decade. Unless provisions are made to protect mothers-in-law from discrimination, domestic violence, and legal harassment, and unless steps are taken to ensure their welfare during their post-menopausal years, we will... »
Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood. Any... »
During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Legal Victories Bring Light to Battered Men Again
LOS ANGELES/October 9, 2009 — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the National Coalition For Men (NCFM) anticipates two successful high profile legal rulings this year and last year in West Virginia and California, respectively, will bring needed attention to the hidden, overlooked side of partner abuse –... »
Impeachment suggested to remove ‘threats’ to America
“Make no mistake. We’re now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd – a cold-blooded gang that despises America’s prosperity, our standing in the world, our trust in God and our generosity and goodness,” says political activist Floyd Brown in a post on... »
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian Nobel Committee does it again. »
All India Men’s Welfare Association (AIMWA)
Launch of “All India Men’s Welfare Association (AIMWA)” 11 October 2009 Venue: Public Gardens, Opposite Jubilee Hall Hyderabad, India Why do we need an “All India Men’s Welfare Association”? Welfare of boys and men has been seriously neglected in India over the last two decades. While proudly championing the cause of women’s rights and women’s empowerment, the government and... »
SWAT raid on food storehouse heading to trial
A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week. »
Firefighters’ Grant Diverted to ACORN
“My issue is ACORN in New Orleans. Their mission statement says nothing about fire safety or fire prevention. It bothered me that ACORN got $1 million and there are so many smaller and bigger departments that have a need for that money.” »
Michelle Obama in Health Care Scandal
To deal with the “seepage” problem, Mrs. Obama helped create the so-called “South Side Health Collaborative” (later known as the “Urban Health Initiative”). This program aimed to reduce the number of non-paying patients utilizing University of Chicago Medical Center’s emergency room. And it did so by instituting a highly selective program that redirects poor... »
The Government Robbed Chrysler Creditors
In January 2009, Chrysler stood on the brink of insolvency. Purporting to act under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the Treasury extended Chrysler a $4 billion loan using funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Still in a bad financial situation, Chrysler initially proposed an out-of-court reorganization plan that would fully repay all... »
Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell
Townhall.com: Upon learning that the Constitution requires a president to be a natural born citizen, a college student said: “What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified than one born by C-section?” ……….. »
Planet cooling says UN scientist
The week before the latest UN’s world leaders’ conference there was another UN climate conference in Geneva where one of the UN’s own leading climate scientists and computer modellers, Professor Mojib Latif from Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Keil University, stated that from recent research he has conducted he has had to... »
Decision Rendered in Major West Virginia Domestic Violence Lawsuit
From Mike McCormick of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC): Many of our readers have experienced the problem of false allegations of abuse in the context of divorce and custody proceedings. Today in West Virginia a significant decision was released in the case of Men and Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD) versus The Family... »
The National Commission for Women – Candidness personified!
In May 2003, the National Commission for Women (NCW) felicitated one Ms. Nisha Sharma for canceling her own wedding, standing up against the evil of dowry and sending out a “loud and clear message to dowry seekers”, and Ms. Sharma became a role model for all women, overnight. The truth, that her wedding was... »
Launch of All India Men’s Welfare Association
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. India is observing this occasion for the first time this year, and four organizations in Hyderabad – Save Indian Family Foundation, All India Forgotten Women, Rishtey and Children’s Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting – launched a month-long campaign on 2 October, the International Day of Non-Violence. The campaign aims... »
ACORN Threw Out Republican Voter Registrations
Interview with a former ACORN employee. In February of 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying three dollars for each vote you could register. Fatiyyah claims she registered voters for Acorn there (at three dollars each), but that the group threw out her votes and fired her when she brought... »
Treasury Secretary Forced Banks into Government Take-Overs
(CNSNews.com) – In a new report, Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), reveals that then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key federal regulators forced the nation’s nine largest financial institutions to take billions in taxpayer bailout dollars in October 2008, threatening that if the banks refused, the government... »
Obama Doctors Support Illusive
Dr. Eric Novack of Phoenix, AZ, was one of the 50 doctors invited to the White House photo op today. But he turned down the invitation, because he has lead the fight to pass state legislation and constitutional amendments to prohibit individual insurance mandates. »
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