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Slate.com Salon.com Criticize the Fatherhood Movement (Part IV)
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men s and fathers movement. Whenever the fatherhood movement and its opponents clash directly, there is an opportunity for all on both sides to listen and learn, so I m writing several posts on these two articles. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading quote attributed [...]

Slate.com Salon.com Criticize the Fatherhood Movement (Part III)
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles criticizing the men s and fathers movement. My first two posts dealt largely with a misleading quote attributed to me in both pieces, and the two publications commendable agreement to clarify it. In this post and others, we ll deal more with the arguments made by Kathryn Joyce of Double [...]

Slate.com, Salon.com Agree to Fix Misleading Attribution in Piece Criticizing Fatherhood Movement
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles about the men s and fathers movement. Kathryn Joyce s DoubleX Slate.com article appeared to attribute the views of another activist to me, and Salon.com s Judy Berman picked up on it and publicized the misattribution. I wrote to both Slate.com and Salon.com asking for a correction and, to their credit, [...]

NOW Raiders Coach Allegedly Hit Wife, Must be Fired
National Organization for Women president Terry O Neill has proclaimed that Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable must lose his job because he apparently hit his first wife and may have done the same to a past girlfriend.  As this article tells us, O Neill asks why anyone who has allegedly committed DV in the past should [...]

Global Gender Gap Report IV Let Us Tell You How To Live
There was a time when liberal sages pretended to be sensitive to what the late Edward Said called Cultural Imperialism.   Said, being Palestinian, informed us that European countries and their progeny like the United States, have for 500 years or so, done more than simply assert military and economic power over nations and continents occupied by darker-skinned, non-Christian peoples.  They ve [...]

Aussie Backlash Against Equally-Shared Parenting to Promote Move-Aways
Australia is well-known to be backtracking on its equally-shared parenting legislation.  It s only been three years since the Howard Government enacted the presumption of shared parenting and, according to studies I ve reported on before, few courts have actually established equal parenting arrangements in divorce cases.  Still, that s been too much for the forces who are bound [...]

Female Police Officer a Hero in Ft. Hood Massacre
As we all know by now, carnage erupted at Fort Hood army base in central Texas on Thursday.  Allegedly, an army psychiatrist opened fire on enlisted men who had lined up for inoculations and eye tests.  When it was all over, 13 people were dead and 38 injured.  Of the 13 dead, the names of [...]

CT Supreme Court Establishes Basic Rights for those Accused of DV
Perhaps the bedrock principle of due process is that, at a bare minimum, a defendant whose rights the state wants to infringe or remove entirely is entitled to notice of the charge against him her and a hearing before an impartial arbiter.  The most heinous mass murderer is entitled to those two basic things.  Actually, as [...]

Her Neglect Killed 1 Child Now She Wants Custody of Other 2
He was divorced.  She had custody.  But she had problems with drinking and drugs.  So he reported her repeatedly to Child Protective Services, which took no action.  One day his ex got drunk and passed out, leaving their four-year-old daughter trapped inside a car in the hot Arizona summer.  The little girl, Haley Gray, died.  [...]