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'Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are not scheduled to begin until mid-July, but her punditocracy hearings are already well underway. This week they’re all about her now infamous (and almost always decontextualized) "wise Latina" comment.

Pat Buchanan regularly reminds the public that Obama's nominee can’t wait to get her hooks into the rights of white men. Michael Steele concurs, explaining: "God help you if you're a white male coming before her bench." Shelby Steele, in a triumphant act of hyperbolism, claimed that “Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy.”'

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'Principal Efe Agbamu, was reading off the names of the top ten academic performers in the class of 2009. Every single one was a female student.

They are very accomplished, talented young women with very bright futures. They are making plans to attend top notch four year institutions and to pursue careers like biomedical engineer, medical doctor, physical therapist, chemical engineer, nurse and the list goes on.

I was very proud of their accomplishments and certainly do not want to take anything away from their hard work, but I couldn’t help but think, “Where are the boys?”
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He informed me that a significant reading gap has developed between our females and our males. We all know how important reading is to success in school and our females are doing much better in reading.
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I don’t have the answers. My goal here is to raise a significant concern in the academic performance of young males.'

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'The 15-year-old girl charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 78-year-old Frank Tonge has been remanded for a psychiatric assessment.

The young girl, who cannot be identified because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, made her first court appearance in Hampton on Thursday.

She fought back tears as the charge was read, her mother and sister looking on.

Tonge was found on June 5 laying in a pool of blood in his home in Damascus, near Hampton, by a friend.

The girl did not enter a plea and David Lutz, the defence lawyer, requested a 30-day psychiatric, psychological and medical assessment.
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Meanwhile, the RCMP continues to investigate but the police seem to be backing away from earlier suggestions that other suspects could be charged.'

Once again, no comments allowed by the CBC.

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"A senior police official says investigators are actively exploring the possibility that the three infants whose remains were found in a London, Ont., home on Saturday did not die there.

Det.-Supt. Ken Heslop said it's possible the deaths occurred in another Ontario community before Jennifer Sinn, the woman charged in the case, moved to London.

Heslop said Peel Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police are trying to trace the movements of the 32-year-old woman before she moved to London last October.

Court documents suggest the infants may have died in 2001, 2002 and 2006.

Sinn has been charged with three counts of concealing the body of a dead child and causing an indignity to a dead body."

The CBC NEVER allows comments on these types of stories. I wonder why...

Some equal time for the "Don't Date Him Girl" crowd: http://www.dontdatethis.com/ddtgirl/

"Dontdatethis.com was created to hold girls/women accountable for their actions. Next time your girlfriend cheats, lies, gives you an unexpected trip to the doctor or just does something wrong to you, you have a site to place a warning to all guys all over the world about her.

The goal of this site is to create a user friendly information database that hopefully makes all girls/women think twice before they act."

Looks like they also provide equal-equal time with http://www.dontdatethis.com/ddtguy/.

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'Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as "a product of affirmative action" who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to "cultural biases" that are "built into testing."

On another occasion, she aligned with conservatives who take a limited view of when international law can be enforced in U.S. courts. But she criticized conservative objections to recent Supreme Court rulings that mention foreign law as being based on a "misunderstanding."

Those comments were among a trove of videos dating back nearly 25 years that shed new light on Sotomayor's views. She provided the videos to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as it prepares for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing next month.

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'A nursery school worker was jeered and spat at when she appeared in court today, charged with sexual assault and making and distributing child abuse images.

Vanessa George, 39, who worked at the Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth, was remanded in custody amid angry scenes in and outside the city's magistrates court. George, of Plymouth, faces three counts of sexual assault on girls and one on a boy. She is also accused of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

The charges relate to offences alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2007 and June this year. The first charge relates to an assault in Plymouth of a girl aged around one. In the second, she is alleged to have touched an "infant girl". The third is a serious sexual assault on an "infant boy". Another involved an alleged serious sexual assault on an "infant girl".
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The other three charges were that she took, possessed and distributed indecent images of children.'

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'Great conversation and debate going on at Lylah and Barbara's Child Caring blog about moms who get the creeps leaving their children with male caregivers.

This drives hard-working male teachers, not to mention devoted dads, understandably crazy with outrage over society's sexist double standard. (For the record, I adore the two men teachers at our preschool -- I think they are great role models for the little boys, and all the kids see that teachers of either gender can teach and comfort them.)
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Several months ago, I interviewed male nursing students studying at Bunker Hill Community College's state-of-the-art nursing program who hoped to enter the labor & delivery field.

These were really nice 20-something guys, but during their student-training rounds at big city hospitals, they were regularly ordered by laboring women to get lost.

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'The Indiana State Department of Health recently cut gay white men as an HIV/AIDS funding priority. African-American and Hispanic men who have sex with men are still included as priority populations. The decision was made by the department's advisory Community Planning Group (CPG).

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'Young heterosexual men are falling prey to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia just as much as women and gay men - and their numbers are increasing, a leading specialist has warned.
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To be a young man is our society is a difficult thing. What you do and who you are is less straightforward. Women were challenged decades ago to consider which of the many different social roles they adopted. Now men are having to respond to the choices that society gives them.

"Suddenly younger straight men have similar pressures to gay men and women. There is a crisis of masculinity in our society. They are given all these roles and to simply decide to manipulate your body is a nice easy solution to all the complexities of life."'

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'Very few men call police on these women, but when they do many women get charged with domestic violence and battery. Terry Owen with the Port St. Lucie Police Department, says, "We have always seen the men as the abusers, but that is not the case now." Owen says in April, 28 woman were arrested for domestic violence. Owen says, "Woman are just more aggressive than they used to be, they are not laid back or passive." She says that coupled with the poor economy and the higher use of alcohol and drugs is pushing women over the edge. This is another 911 call, "Me and my boyfriend just got in to it and I am trying to get my stuff to leave and he won't let me get my stuff and I don't have time to argue with him." That was Lakeshia Tumblin. She was just arrested for throwing a knife at her boyfriend. The crimes continue and rarely do men report it..."

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'In a gang and want to get out? Hooked on drugs? Mean to your parents? Afraid you have AIDS? Barred from visiting your child?

"You need to come to the Boys 2 Men Conference," said the Rev. Willie D. Brown, host and producer of the Saturday event designed to help young males face their problems and find answers. "We have a generation of young men on life support. We're coming in with the shocking paddles to give them their lives back."

Brown expects 300 to 500 young men, ages 12 and up, to attend. How does he plan to get them?
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The conference will offer counseling, confidential AIDS testing, and prevention and intervention in areas from drugs to child custody.
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"We'll find out each guy's issues. We'll break them to different groups. We'll show them how other people have handled their problems."'

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'Four days after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction that barred Quinnipiac University from cutting the women's volleyball team, the school changed course Tuesday and reinstated the program.

But while keeping the program in the face of a Title IX lawsuit, Quinnipiac said that it was cutting the men's indoor track team. The school had previously eliminated men's outdoor track and golf because of budgetary concerns.
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Andrew Schneider, the ACLU's executive director, said testimony showed that Quinnipiac could have achieved its budget cuts without eliminating programs, so he was critical of the decision to cut men's indoor track.

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'NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who's sometimes perceived as cold and unfriendly, sought to warm up his image at an event with women voters on Monday.
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The Bloomberg campaign, which just released new television ads featuring testimonials from prominent women supporters focusing on issues such as reproductive health access, domestic abuse and schools, insisted the event was not invite-only. Invited people were allowed to bring guests, spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said.'