Full summary here. Considering that Fathers & Families had a 100% success record for the year of 2010 (with 5 out of 5 legislative goals accomplished), I eagerly anticipated their forthcoming announcement for their legislative priorities for 2011. Well, they just announced them, and it's an ambitious list. If you want to help them, you can either register as an activist and/or donate.

Here's a shortened overview of their 2011 legislative agenda:

1. Combating Parenting Time Interference [more]

2. Curbing Alimony Abuses [more]

Article here. Excerpt:

'DURHAM, N.C. -- A woman who authorities said falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape four years ago has been found guilty by a North Carolina jury of misdemeanor child abuse and damaging property.

A Durham County jury on Friday convicted 32-year-old Crystal Mangum of contributing to child abuse or neglect, injury to personal property, and resisting a public officer stemming from a February confrontation with her live-in boyfriend. Mangum was sentenced to time already served before she was released on bail earlier this year.

The jury deadlocked 9-3 on a felony arson charge, and Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones declared a mistrial.'

Article here. Looks like the online radical feminists are on the warpath (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to a couple of well-known political lefties, Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann, for their defense of Wikileaks' Julian Assange (Assange has been bogusly accused of sex crimes by two female groupies in Sweden, one of whom is a known radical feminist).

Story here.

'A woman who beat an eight-year-old girl with the metal end of a dog leash plans to become a midwife, the Adelaide District Court has heard.

Tara Jefferson, 20, has pleaded guilty to intentionally causing harm to a child.

The court heard she struck the girl in the face with the leash at least 10 times.

It was told Jefferson had a fight with the child's father and took her anger out on the child while she was caring for her.

The court heard the woman is now four months' pregnant and intends studying midwifery, but the criminal proceedings may affect her career prospects.

She will be sentenced next month.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Judge Quinn’s 31-page decision boils over with the frustrations of a family-law judge who is called upon time and again to referee bouts between couples who were once in love. He even takes a shot at family law itself, saying that spousal support is “the roulette of family law – blindfolds, darts and Ouija boards being optional.”

And he anticipates criticism of his tone: “The parties repeatedly have shown they are immune to reason. Consequently, in my decision, I have tried ridicule as a last resort.”

In a novel twist, Judge Quinn granted the wife, Catherine, sole custody of the feuding couple’s 13-year-old daughter. However, he ordered Larry to pay Catherine just a dollar a month in spousal support.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A London court granted Julian Assange bail Thursday and he walked out of jail a free man. For now. Assange is still under house arrest and faces an extradition hearing in Janurary. Our correspondent explains what's next for Assange and any U.S. charges against him.

Julian Assange walked out of jail on Thursday, his first freedom in nine days.
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So far, Assange is not facing charges related to WikiLeaks. A hearing on Sweden's extradition request will be held next month. For now, Assange is required to stay at a friend's 10-bedroom mansion, where he is free to use the internet.'

Video report here. The MRA issues here? She plays the woman card twice (or has it played for her): first she says the officer touched her, which was shown by the film to not be true. Undoubtedly she would not have made that accusation had the officer been female. Secondly, after she is exposed as a liar, a man speaking on behalf of the local Muslim community asserts she ought not to be put in jail because she is the mother of seven children. No man could try making that claim and not get laughed off the stage or told he should have thought of that before committing the crime.

From SAVE:

Much of the mischief of the DV industry takes place at the state level.

So last night SAVE launched our state Domestic Violence Legislative Project, with 18 persons from 11 states on the call, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto! The DVLP is a growing network of advocates who are working to establish DV laws and policies that protect victims, safeguard families, and respect due process.

We have set up a webpage to highlight this important new initiative

Our next teleconference will be Wednesday, January 19. If you would like to join the state DV Legislative Project, contact Teri Stoddard at tstoddard-at-saveservices.org.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A former Ohio State teaching assistant will be charged with attempted murder and kidnapping after she allegedly shot her ex-fiancé and then forced him into her car Tuesday morning, Dublin police said.

Thirty-year-old Melissa "Missie" Stredney of 3081 Wakefern Place in Columbus taught a lab section of chemistry 122 before OSU fired her in February 2009 after receiving reports of misconduct.

Dublin police received a 911 call at 7:53 a.m. Tuesday saying a woman with a gun was trying to force a man into her silver Chevrolet Cavalier in the back parking lot of NCO Financial Systems at 5626 Frantz Road.

Police spotted and pulled over the car a mile from the scene and took Stredney into custody.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'WABC/Channel 7 weather babe Heidi Jones was arrested for perpetrating the ultimate snow job -- falsely claiming to cops that a man had tried to rape her while she was jogging in Central Park, sources said yesterday.

Jones, who anchors the station's weekend evening weather coverage and fills in on "Good Morning America," was charged Monday with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, she could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.
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Jones spun a story that proved to be as unreliable as a five-day forecast, telling police last month that she was assaulted in September while pounding the pavement in the city's back yard, the sources said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'As court officers attended Lane in the dock, the judge temporarily adjourned the hearing but told the jurors they would return shortly as he wished speak to them.

The verdict came after the jury deliberated for a week after a four-month trial.

Earlier, the jury also found Lane guilty of three counts of making a false statement on oath in relation to documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies.
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Tegan was the second of three babies she carried to term and delivered without those closest to her even suspecting she was pregnant.

She put her first and third babies up for adoption but a year ago Lane was charged with Tegan's murder.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'LONDON – A British judge ordered Julian Assange released on 200,000 pounds ($316,000) bail Tuesday, but the WikiLeaks founder will remain in custody for at least two more days after Swedish prosecutors challenged that decision.

Assange has spent a week in a U.K. jail following his surrender to British police over a Swedish sex-crimes warrant. He denies any wrongdoing but has refused to voluntarily surrender to Sweden's request to extradite him for questioning — arguing that he could be questioned from Britain.

In a day of courtroom drama, the 39-year-old Australian was first told by a judge that he would be freed, then less than two hours later was informed he had at least another 48 hours in custody.

Britain's High Court will hear the Swedish appeal, but it wasn't clear exactly when.'

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'SB 292, the bill to increase Ohio child support obligations by an average of 27%, has failed to pass. Thanks to all of you who participated in our Campaign to Defeat Ohio Bill to Raise Child Support Levels in Worst Economy Since the Great Depression.

In working against SB 292, Fathers and Families of Ohio conferred with legislators and interested stakeholders, garnered extensive media coverage, and organized opposition.'

From A Voice for Men:

"Read that again. It's not hyperbole. Under the plan proposed by some Swedish legal experts, once a woman cries "rape," the accused male would be sent away to prison for many years unless he could prove consent." Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'Jessica Valenti's take on the Assange sex case in last Sunday's Washington Post was more of the same old same old, a mish-mash of the usual feminist victim blather about America's supposed tolerance of rape.

But then, just as we are nodding off, Valenti tosses a bucket of ice water on us by -- it seemed to me (you read it and decide for yourself) -- at least tacitly endorsing what would be the most unjust, inhumane, morally grotesque law in our entire jurisprudence. Read carefully what she says:

"...we should look to [Swedish rape laws] as a potential model for our own legislation.

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