Article here. Excerpt:

'Researchers believe that the female of any species employs the technique so that men can prove themselves more worthy than their rivals.

But it only works where there are a large number of males to choose from and where there is a mixture of different types of men.
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Professor John McNamara, co-author of the paper, came up with the conclusions after crunching the data into a mathematical model.

He believes coyness and helpfulness tend to encourage each other - although some males have learned to cheat.

"The more coy females are, the more helpful men will be; and the more men around, the more coy women are," he said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Lawyers in a Newark courtroom yesterday sparred over whether an Irvington woman was legally insane two years ago when she killed her 5-year-old nephew by stabbing him 57 times with a kitchen knife.

Public Defender Sterling Kinsale insisted Jasmin Collins, 42, was insane, saying she's had a "schizoaffective disorder" for years, one that's been documented in a number of hospitalizations and can trigger violent behavior when it's not controlled.

Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Romesh Sukhdeo acknowledged Collins has a problem but maintained she knew what she was doing when she knifed Meshach Collins to death in her home on Nov. 19, 2006, and was aware she was doing something wrong.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A Tucson mother who kept her 11-year-old son locked in a stuffy room all summer with only a bucket for a toilet has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Norma Barrientos had pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse.
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Deputies said the room was warm, had a stench of urine and feces and had a fan that did not work. There were bars and an extra locking device on the window.

Barrientos and her boyfriend told deputies the boy was locked up because he was getting dangerous items like lighters and flammable liquids that were kept in the home.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An O’Fallon, Missouri woman is facing a felony for allegedly trying to burn down a house that her ex-boyfriend was sleeping in with another woman. The fire happened last Friday at about 11:00am.

Investigators say at first 21 year old Kara Dodt told them she had left the home to go a friend's house and got a call about the fire. She later admitted to starting the fire. Dodt is facing a first degree arson charge.
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Police say there is no evidence that she was trying to get back at her ex-boyfriend. Instead, police say Dodt told them she did it to get insurance money to help pay off bills. Dodt says she did not know the blaze was going to get out of control.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'HOUMA – The 24-year-old Raceland woman who told police she was abducted from a parking lot and held captive for days in a house where she was raped admitted fabricating the story, police said.

Jacqueline Parfait, 551 Danos St., told detectives she made up the story because she came to Houma without telling her friends and family to engage “ in certain activities that she was extremely ashamed of,” Houma Police Sgt. Dana Coleman said. Coleman would not elaborate.
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If convicted of filing a false report, Parfait could face up to six months in jail and up to $500 in fines.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Ladies may still be welcome, but only if they pay full freight.

That's what the Nevada Equal Rights Commission told a Las Vegas gym that offered free enrollment to women only.
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The floodgates of litigation have opened," said Todd Phillips, who instigated the case against Las Vegas Athletic Clubs in August 2007.

Phillips, a self-described "liberal civil rights attorney," says he intends to continue pressing the matter until sex-based pricing is a thing of the past in Nevada.

He objected to the club's discriminatory pricing policy as well as separate workout facilities it reserved for women only.

"If you allow a service to women, whatever it is you have to allow it for men," said Phillips.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A faltering economy is taking a toll not only on women's wallets but on their health as well, a new survey finds.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The two Heritage High School science clubs are in head-to-head competition with their NASA challenge experiments. They're also trying to outdo each other with entries for a coming science fair.

Members of the fledgling girls-only STARS predict that they'll mop up.

The message back from Men of Brilliance: Bring it on.

Four years ago, neither club existed. Men of Brilliance — MOB — was created first, born of concern for male students who were falling behind in their math and science classes, Ouellette said.
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"It's no secret that males, especially socioeconomically disadvantaged males, are at the bottom of the ladder," Ouellette said. "The girls aren't. We've pounded it into the girls that they are smart about science and math, but what did we do in the process? We ignored the males. This is a way to improve the situation."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'DECEMBER 2--A group of teenagers working at a Minnesota nursing home abused and sexually humiliated elderly residents suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, prosecutors allege. The six young female caregivers were named yesterday in criminal complaints charging them with a variety of cruel behavior at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Albert Lea, a city in southern Minnesota.'

Not unrelatedly, I suppose: 1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

Video report here. Watch how the "reporters" trip over themselves to side with that "poor mom". Would they have done so had she done this to a daughter?

Story here. Excerpt:

'Twelve years ago, Frank Rodriguez pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child.

Faced with two to 20 years in prison on the charge, he signed a plea bargain that gave him seven years probation. He was told he must never be near children. That meant he couldn't be any place where children gather, like playgrounds or parks, which made it tough to find work.
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Rodriguez completed his seven years' probation without another violation, but he will forever be on the Texas sex offender registry. And what was the nature of the sex crime he committed? Well, when he was 19, Frank had sex with his 15 year-old girlfriend, Nikki Prescott, at her suggestion.

"It was my idea," she said. "I would say I pushed it more."'

ABC News Video: Age of Consent: Double Standard?

Story here. Excerpt:

'PHOENIX — A Mesa baby sitter has been arrested and accused by Mesa police of leaving two children home alone while she went out drinking.

The children's mother told police her boyfriend's sister, 18-year-old Synjan Mitchell, was baby-sitting her 5-month-old daughter and 21-month-old son Wednesday.

The mother told police she came home and found the front door of her apartment open.

The mother says she found loud music playing, beer cans scattered on the floor and her two children home alone.'

Yeah, women are really the responsible ones...not! I bet this woman/baby sitter claims some kind of victimhood for her actions.

Article here. Excerpt:

'American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more at "alarming rates," a study of nearly 30,000 high school students concluded Monday.
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In its 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, the Los Angeles-based organization said the teenagers' responses to questions about lying, stealing and cheating "reveals entrenched habits of dishonesty for the workforce of the future."

Boys were found to lie and steal more than girls.
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"As bad as these numbers are, it appears they understate the level of dishonesty exhibited by America's youth," the study warned, noting than more than a fourth of the students (26 percent) admitted they had lied on at least one or two of the survey questions.'

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'Our Campaign Protesting Father-Bashing Domestic Violence Ads was recently praised on PJTV by two prominent commentators--Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds.

Malkin is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear in nearly 200 newspapers, the author of three books, and a frequent TV and radio commentator.

Reynolds' blog, www.Instapundit.com, is perhaps the most-read political blog in the US, and he is an author and frequent TV commentator.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'TULSA, OK -- An Oklahoma teenager is swept up in laws aimed at protecting kids from child predators. He must register as a sex offender for life, as the worst level offender, after having a sex with his girlfriend, who said she was his age, 16. Sex between teenagers is no longer just a moral issue, it's a legal one.
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But, the district attorney charged Ricky as an adult for two counts of felony sex abuse of a child. He was facing 25 years in prison, so he pleaded guilty and got a deferred sentence, which means it would expunged off his record.
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Ricky's record was expunged last month, but Oklahoma won't take him off the registry.'

The petition in support of changing the current laws is at http://rickyslife.com/. Please sign!

It is a call for legislative action to change the laws that have done such great harm to Ricky and others like him. When we unite in encouraging our legislators to act responsibly to correct these injustices, we pay the just price for our freedom.