Retrial begins in death of microwaved baby

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'Jury selection began Monday for the retrial of a woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven.
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Her retrial in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court comes six months after a judge declared a mistrial in her initial trial, saying new evidence had surfaced to bolster Arnold's innocence claim.'

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Groom Arrested for Getting Too Close to Bride at Wedding

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'Timothy Cole quarreled with a wedding guest at a party Friday after wedding his ex-wife in Batavia, police said.

Officers knew the 45-year-old Cole from previous arrests and realized his bride had an order of protection against him. Cole was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, and ordered jailed without bail.'

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Bill Clinton Promotes Circumcision To Fight AIDS

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'Mr. Clinton says some current prevention approaches must continue, such as condom use, substitution therapy for injection drug users and increasing male circumcision, which studies show can reduce HIV infection.

Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic is over 25 years old, he says much ignorance remains. And that can cost lives.'

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Married vs. Single: Health Gap Narrows

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"Getting married doesn't improve one's health as much as it used to, according to a new study.

Married people have historically reported better health than their never-married peers. It has generally been accepted that marriage provides social, psychological, and financial resources that improve overall health. But a new study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests the gap is narrowing, particularly for men."

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Australia: Proposal would extend family court's power to unmarried couples

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'The Government introduced a bill on 25 June 2008 which, if passed, will amend the Family Law Act to allow disputes in relation to property and financial matters between couples to be resolved or determined by the Family Court.'

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Ed. note: The link is to the announcement converted from PDF to HTML. The original PDF-format announcement is here.

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"Support? System Down" released

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Redefining violence leads to inflated statistics on DV

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'Oceanside by far had the highest rate of domestic violence in San Diego County last year, and the Police Department suspects the main reason may be because verbal fights are included in the statistics. Other departments don't do that.

The city's No. 1 ranking surprised police Sgt. Aaron Doyle, who helps manage Oceanside's domestic violence investigations.

There were 40 domestic violence incidents reported per 1,000 households in Oceanside, compared with four in Del Mar, which ranked the lowest, according to 2007 statistics from the San Diego Association of Governments.'

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Newsweek: Rethinking Fathers’ Rights

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'Despite the fact that divorce is rarely triggered by violence or abuse, the incentives to allege that a man is abusive and out of control are undeniable. They tap into age-old stereotypes about men and ensure that Mom becomes the primary custodian. Even without abuse allegations, simple rules of physics (one child cannot be split into two and two cannot be split into four) make it likely that many good fathers will be downgraded from full-time dads to alternating-weekend carpool dads. They will be asked to pay at least a third of their salaries in child support for that privilege. Simple rules of modern life make it likely that an ex-wife will someday decide that a job or new husband demands a move to a faraway state. At which point the alternating-weekend-carpool dad is again demoted, to a Thanksgivings-if-you're-lucky dad.'

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"Selective Service" looming

Despite Hillary's ridiculous assertion that woman are the primary victims of war, the truth is, it's men for the most part who do the fighting and dying. And we are on the verge of going back into that in a big way.

Selective Service, The Draft, Conscription, whatever you want to call it, is involuntary servitude that governments place men into. At the risk of being accused of at least being a pessimist and at most a seditionist, we are on the verge of WWIII, and thius on the verge of a new draft, which to this day is applied only to men of a certain age. I suppose I may also be accused of being overly dramatic as well, fine. Read this and then tell me I'm rushing to judgment.

The author of that blog knows his facts. As of this writing, his latest update reads in part:

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UK: Violent women 'stretching police'

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'About 240 women a day are arrested for violent crime in England and Wales, according to recent figures.

Police in Scotland and Northern Ireland say, anecdotally, they have also seen an increase in female violence.

The chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, Paul McKeever, said there was a "new phenomenon" of women using violence and joining gangs.'

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Maureen Dowd: 'Mr. Darcy Comes Courting'

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'It is a truth universally acknowledged that Barack Obama must continue to grovel to Hillary Clinton’s dead-enders, some of whom mutter darkly that they will not only not vote for him, they will never vote for a man again.

Obama met for an hour Tuesday with three dozen top Hillaryites at a hotel here, seeking their endorsement and beguiling their begrudging. He opened the session by saying that he knew there had been frustration about what they saw as sexism during the primary.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Hillary die-hards want to enshrine a whine in the Democratic platform about how the primaries “exposed pervasive gender bias in the media” and call on party leaders to take “immediate and public steps” to denounce any perceived bias in the future. That is one nutty idea.'

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UK: Girls should be taught feminism at school

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'Teenange girls should be taught feminism at school to stop the growing trend of giving themselves abusive 'male' nicknames such as 'slut' and 'whore', an expert said yesterday.
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She called for teachers to discuss feminism and suggest positive role models, who could include figures such as Virginia Woolf, suffragettes' leader Emmeline Pankhurst and even the cartoon character Lisa Simpson.

She said they are needed to overcome the negative influences of celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.'

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Teenage Suspect in Videotaped Beating Arrested For Assaulting Boyfriend

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'One of five teenage suspects in the videotaped beating of a central Florida classmate is being held on bond and is facing several aggravated assault charges in an unrelated case.

A judge set an $81,500 bond on Friday for 17-year-old Mercades Nichols.

Authorities say she threatened, stalked and injured a former boyfriend and a fellow student.

She is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of battery, aggravated stalking and stalking.'

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Updates on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Please visit 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek for news and updates. And stay tuned for more on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek! Excerpt:

'Equal Parenting Bike Trek and DC Festival Make A Top 15 Internet Content Provider. About.com covers the Equal Parenting Bike Trek for a second time and their latest coverage includes the DC Festival 2008! We were pleased that they mentioned Robert Pedersen's FRONT page Color Photo Story in the Detroit News which received significant attention and at one point reached the Top 5 of all Detroit News Articles'

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Woman arrested for lying to police about rape

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'Police arrested a Pocono Pines woman after they say she admitted lying to investigators when she accused her ex-boyfriend of assault and rape.

Elissa Easterling, 27, is accused of lying to Pocono Mountain Regional Police by falsely accusing a man of beating and raping her.
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She also testified in order to get a protective order against the man, under oath at Monroe County Court, that she had been raped. The protective order was granted.

When police confronted her with the evidence that she was lying, police say she admitted to making up the assaults. Easterling said the man did not harm her in any way.'

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