Article here. Excerpt:

'While perusing the manifesto of this now defunct STORM, several things struck me as particularly interesting. There was of course the passionate commitment to Marxist ideals, radical feminism, gay lesbian and transgender liberation and the ardent support of the unrepentant murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. And there was this rather innocuous looking paragraph, which I found especially fascinating.

"Storm had a closed membership. People could not just decide to join whenever they wanted to. Instead the group invited small classes of activists to become new members. This insured more consistency and accountability within the membership. It also allowed the group to maintain its strict demographic quota requirements; each class was required to be 75% people of color and 60% women."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Thirty years later, few textbooks bother with the disguise. Entire chunks of the English language have been banned from the classroom, liquidated in a P.C. purge. First to go were words containing the dreaded term "man," the three letters most offensive to professional feminists. Mailman, chairman, snowman, fisherman, manhole cover--every one now extinct, disdained relics of a bygone age.
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So did it work? Did shielding children from scary words like "mailman" turn them into better students? Compare the test scores in your kids' school district to those from 1960, and judge for yourself. Or consider this: When asked about the Vietnam War recently, almost a quarter of students described it as a conflict between North and South Korea.'

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'SEBOKENG, South Africa — The prosecution finished presenting witnesses Wednesday in the case of a woman accused of abusing six teenagers at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls, presenting a picture of a short-tempered, jealous young woman.

The testimony from the last prosecution witnesses wrapped up the first stage of the trial, which began more than a year ago.

The defendant, Tiny Virginia Makopo, allegedly tried to kiss and fondle the victims and is also accused of assaulting one of the girls as well as fellow supervisor. The 28-year-old pleaded innocent to 14 charges of indecent assault, assault and criminal injury.

Makopo's lawyer is expected to start the defense stage Monday. A verdict could be months away.

Much of the evidence so far has come from students who testified in a closed session because of their age.

Story here. Excerpt:

'On Wednesday morning, Edith and her big sister, Diana Moreno, 17, were found dead, their throats slashed. On Friday, their mother, Antonia Gomez, 38, was arrested on suspicion of killing her daughters.
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Gomez lost her job at a sandwich shop about three months ago and was hospitalized for stress shortly after, relatives said.
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Fuentes owned the property, and until days before the killings had rented out the home in the front.

But she was unable to make the mortgage, and with the home's value plummeting, the property went into foreclosure. Gomez, her mother and the three girls were going to have to find another place to live, relatives said.
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"She didn't have the mental well-being to deal with too much pressure," Gomez Fuentes said. "I just can't visualize her doing this, killing her girls. If she did, she didn't have her five senses."'

Story here. This one speaks for itself. Excerpt:

'As a jury at the trial of Rosie Waggett returned the unanimous guilty verdict, after deliberating for less than an hour yesterday, the 18-year-old fell to the floor, crying uncontrollably.
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Mr Muir said: She said she didn't have any money, so I asked how she was going to pay for the taxi. She said, "well if he (the taxi driver) asks me about the money I'll just say he tried to rape me."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Americans are living nearly two-and-a-half months longer, according to new life expectancy statistics released today. In 2007, life expectancy in the United States reached a high of nearly 78 years, up from 77.7 a year earlier.

Life expectancy in the United States has been on the rise for a decade, increasing 1.4 years — from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The life expectancy data, compiled by the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics, are based on nearly 90 percent of the death certificates filed in the United States.
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The report found that both men and women are living longer, although a gap of five years remains between men and women. In 2007, average life expectancy was 80.4 years for women, but 75.3 years for men. Although men still die younger than women, the gap has narrowed slightly. In 1979, women outlived men by nearly eight years.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ms. Nelson has filed a lawsuit against McPherson prison in Newport, Arkansas, complaining generally that her pre-natal care was below acceptable medical standards, but specifically that her legs were shackled right up to the moment of delivery.

Also, she whined that she had been given only Tylenol for her pain.

I would imagine that Tylenol would be a somewhat mild pain killer to people accustomed to intra-venous heroin.

Dee Ann Newell, whose day job is senior justice fellow at the Soros Foundation, also teaches pre-natal care in Arkansas, weighed in with her opinion of shackling pregnant criminals with this pathetic wheedle.'

“If you have ever seen a woman have a baby, you would know we squirm.” Ms. Newell, in her fevered efforts to condemn everyone but the criminal, fails to understand the widely accepted rules of shackling dangerous prisoners; namely, every state with the exception of California and Illinois, allow shackling of pregnant females.
Could it be that pregnant convicts can be dangerous?

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Article here. Excerpt:

'Question: Prosecutors of domestic violence case often do not understand the cultural intricacies that complicate cases. How should we train assistant DA’s?

Cy Vance Jr.: Repeat misdemeanors should be treated as a felony. Manhattan needs a Family Justice Center like Brooklyn and Queens do.

Leslie Cocker Snyder: Every domestic violence case is a homicide waiting to happen. Prosecutors need to be trained in evidence-based prosecution, so that the case can go forth if the victim is unwilling to testify.

Richard Aborn: Training needs to be evidence based. For prevention, women need financial support, transitional housing, and psychological help. Children need early intervention, too.'

Article here. I gave the author, Stephanie R. Murphy a very positive e-mail in agreement with her opinions. stephaniemurphy4-at-gmail.com. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'ST. LOUIS — A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.

Richard "Ricky" Chekevdia, who turns 7 on Sept. 14, was in good spirits and physically fit after being found Friday by investigators with a court order to search the two-story rural home in southern Illinois' Franklin County, about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis.

The boy's mother, 30-year-old Shannon Wilfong, is charged with felony child abduction. The grandmother, 51-year-old Diane Dobbs, is charged with aiding and abetting. Wilfong remained jailed Saturday on $42,500 bond in Benton, Ill., where Dobbs was being held on $1,000 bond.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'"It's worse than we're willing to admit," said Carl Taylor, a Michigan State University sociology professor and principal investigator for the Michigan Gang Research Project.

In Wayne County, 16-year-old Ciara Hill is awaiting trial on charges that she ordered a cousin to shoot a carjacking victim with an AK47 because he'd seen her face.
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Taylor said the age and gender don't surprise him. He said more females seem willing to become physically aggressive.

"We have girls jumping guys -- something you really didn't see before," he said.

It is part of "a total breakdown" of accepted rules of conduct and behavior, Taylor said.
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Veteran Detroit criminal lawyer David Cripps said he sees female youths as a part of "the absolutely tremendous surge" of youngsters charged with armed violence. "It's more than murders. It's armed robberies, carjackings, assaults. You see it in court every day," he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'State lawmakers and prison workers said Thursday that policy changes are needed to lower Oklahoma's incarceration rate for women — the highest in the nation — and do a better job returning women to their communities and families after they have served their sentence.
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Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Oklahoma City, said Oklahoma's criminal justice policies have resulted in incarceration rates for women that are almost twice the national average. The state's incarceration rate for women is 131 per 100,000 residents while the national average is 69 per 100,000.
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"We have an almost warehousing of women in Oklahoma," said Fields, who has six felony convictions for nonviolent offenses and is a University of Oklahoma student working toward a degree in petroleum engineering.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men: 99 percent of gender violence and domestic abuse incidents are perpetrated by men. Therefore, this is a man's issue, not an issue where women put themselves into harm's way. Men need to change their attitude toward women so that violence and abuse is not ever seen as an alternative action.

Clearly, the vast majority of men are not perpetrators of violence but we are part of a culture that accepts violence as inevitable and that some men abuse women. In violence prevention the focus must be on men because it is men that teach other men and boys how to be men in ways that do not involve abusing and degrading women.'

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Sounds like the author and the paper need some eduction on this matter. As always, be polite, stick to facts.
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Story here.

'A 17-year-old woman has been arrested after a man in his 30s was stabbed and died in hospital in Wells, Somerset.

Police were called to a property in Charter Way in the early hours of Friday following reports of a disturbance there.

The victim was taken to Bath's Royal United Hospital but died later.

"A woman aged 17 has been arrested on suspicion of murder and continues to be questioned by detectives," an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said.

The house has been cordoned off and forensic examiners are looking at the scene.'

Police are appealing for witnesses.'