Article here. Excerpt:

"I never thought I would be saying this, but being a free woman isn't all it's cracked up to be. Is that the rustle of taffeta I hear as the suffragettes turn in their graves? Possibly. My mother was a hippy who kept a pile of (dusty) books by Germaine Greer and Erica Jong by her bed (like every good feminist, she didn't see why she should do all the cleaning). She imbued me with the great values of choice, equality and sexual liberation. I fought with my older brother and won; at university I beat the rugby lads at drinking games. I was not to be messed with.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen.

State District Judge Charles Baird ordered Timothy Cole's record expunged.

Cole was convicted of raping a Texas Tech University student in Lubbock in 1985 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He died in 1999 at age 39 from asthma complications.'

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'SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An upstate New York woman was convicted Thursday of murdering her husband by poisoning him with antifreeze and then trying to kill and frame her daughter for the death.

An Onondaga County jury found Stacey Castor, 41, guilty of second-degree murder in the poisoning death of her husband, David, in August 2005. She was also found guilty of attempted second-degree murder for trying to kill daughter Ashley Wallace, then 20, with an overdose of drugs and vodka in September 2007.

"If there is a ceiling in terms of evil, she (Castor) is at the ceiling," District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.
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The death of Wallace's first husband had been ruled a heart attack, but after the exhumation, authorities also ruled the death a homicide caused by ingesting ethylene glycol, a toxic chemical found in antifreeze.

Castor has not been charged in Wallace's death, but prosecutors used evidence surrounding it to build their case against her. Keller said he would challenge the judge's decision to allow the evidence about Wallace's death.'

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Article here. Excerpt:

'With the recession on the brink of becoming the longest in the postwar era, a milestone may be at hand: Women are poised to surpass men on the nation’s payrolls, taking the majority for the first time in American history.

The reason has less to do with gender equality than with where the ax is falling.

Did you know that the Economic Stimulus plan under debate in the Senate allocates 400 million dollars to fund ineffective domestic violence programs?¹

The Senate may vote on the Economic Stimulus plan at any moment. So stop whatever you're doing and take a few minutes to call these three key Senators on the stimulus bill right now:

Tell the Senators:

Article here. Apparently this has been going on in the Czech Republic for decades, without evidence that it's effective. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- The Czech Republic's practice of surgically castrating convicted sex offenders is "invasive, irreversible and mutilating" and should stop immediately, the Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee said in a report made public Thursday.

The central European country castrated at least 94 prisoners in the 10 years up to April 2008, when investigators from the Council of Europe, a human-rights forum, visited the Czech Republic.

The Council of Europe condemned the practice as "degrading."

The procedure is being performed even on first-time, non-violent offenders, such as exhibitionists, its investigation revealed.

Prisoners have to request castration under Czech law, but many fear they will be jailed for life if they do not, the investigation found.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Six cancer patients whose sperm samples were lost by the NHS have won their claim for damages in a landmark judgement which establishes the legal principle that a man's semen is his own property.

The case, which could cost the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation, is expected to lead to a review of the law relating to ownership of human body parts.

In yesterday's judgment the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, the most senior judge in England and Wales, rejected the notion that sperm held by North Bristol NHS Trust had the same legal status as a discarded toenail or hair cut at a barber's shop.

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'A Montreal woman is suing her former lover -- the father of her three children--for spousal support, even though the two of them were never legally married and Quebec law does not grant so-called "common law" spouses any entitlement to alimony or property equalization.

The man is reportedly a billionaire. The woman is seeking a $50-million lump sum, plus $56,000 monthly. She already receives $35,000 monthly in child support, plus the use of a $2.4-million house and several servants.

Story here. A husband accidentally kills wife while cleaning firearm. The police acknowledge that the incident was an accident. The incident was covered in the press as a sad accident with the husband displaying remorse. However, nonetheless, he will be arraigned on charges Thursday afternoon for the accidental killing. Notice how the article towards the end turns in to an advertisement for taking gun safety courses.

How many women kills their husbands on purpose, then claim domestic violence or depression and are never brought up on charges? Excerpt:

'A 21-year-old newlywed is facing a homicide charge in the shooting death of his wife. Sources tell Channel 6 News Joshua Beasley will be arraigned at 2 p.m. Friday on a negligent homicide charge.

Prosecutor Joe Kelly of the Lancaster County Attorney's Office would not explain what led prosecutors to bring charges and said they were still deciding exactly what charge or charges Beasley might face.

Story here. When a wife is mortally attacking the husband, all 'explaining' and 'counseling' comes into effect... But if its the other way round, even if its only alleged and no one but the alleging woman knows the truth, no one ever thinks of any counseling for the man; he just has to be punished as hard as possible. And they say its the man's world! Excerpt:

'SUSSEX, N.B. — A woman appeared in court Wednesday to face charges after RCMP officers had to use a Taser to disarm her on Tuesday.

At the time she allegedly chased her husband around a barber shop with a knife.
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"The (officers) made verbal and physical efforts to control the situation, but it became obvious that the female was out of control and she was posing a real threat to the (officers) so they had no choice but to use the Taser," Tremblay said.

Letter to the editor here.

'The horrific killing by Penny Boudreau of her 12-year-old daughter, looking into the child's eyes while strangling her, should make us both shudder and consider. While this cold-blooded killing is extreme by any standard, a large sample study of child deaths in the United States showed that mothers were involved 60% of the time and acted alone as the perpetrator in one-third of the killings.

Despite this, governments have ministries for women and children and universities have faculties of women and children -- all designed to further the myth that the greatest risk to children comes from men, and specifically fathers. The research statistics suggest otherwise.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In addressing intimate partner violence, the focus is usually on women who are physically battered by husbands or boyfriends. However, women sometimes hurt their partners as well.

Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners.

In fact, when it comes to nonreciprocal violence between intimate partners, women are more often the perpetrators.'

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'I love my sons—they’re funny, sweet, and full of surprises. But I don’t understand how a species incapable of feeding themselves—much less hitting the toilet—ever came to rule the planet.

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'A case is developing in a Tennessee divorce dispute that one attorney believes could impact custody decisions nationwide because it calls down the authority of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to help fathers who are good parents and want to remain involved in their children's lives.

The attorney, Stanley Charles Thorne, told WND the issue in the case at hand will be significant, since there are 3,000 divorce or custody cases in courts across the U.S. daily.

And according to the Children'sJustice.org website, those cases leave nearly 38 percent of the fathers with no access or visitation rights to their children. In addition, four in 10 mothers report they interfered with the father's visitation to punish him at least once, half the mothers see "no value" in the father's continued contact with his children and 70 percent of the fathers wanted more time with their kids.'