Story here. Excerpt:

'A 15-year-old Hagerstown girl suspected of being part of a clique of teens who liked to suck one another's blood approached a friend on a crowded high school bus in October and asked him to kill her father, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors in Washington County in Western Maryland allege that she told the friend, a male classmate, that he could find her father at 5 a.m., climbing into the work truck he parked in the alley behind their rowhouse.

And that was where, on Halloween morning, her father's body was found in a pool of blood. He had been stabbed repeatedly in the head and neck.

This week, the girl was ordered held without bond on charges of soliciting murder.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hillary Clinton might have won, if not for that. It isn't a good idea for anyone seeking a singular office like the Presidency to make that distinction. This country has been run for centuries by men only, and men named Adams and Wilson, Ford and Reagan, Carter and Clinton. To break that mold, you almost had to avoid the subject of breaking any mold whatsoever. (Witness some of Obama's recent appointments.)

But in a state like New York, teeming with talented, ambitious and dedicated women within its political circles, in a state like New York that has already elected a woman to one of its current US Senate terms, in any state wherein the Congressional delegation provides for two US Senators to hold office, Governor David Paterson must appoint a woman to replace Senator Clinton. It is not difficult to imagine that we are at the place in the history of New York politics where this is "the women's seat" of the two from New York.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Where the report has failed spectacularly, however, is in the omission of any specific reference to the role of men in childcare. It refers pointedly throughout to “parents”, not just mothers, and includes parental and paternity leave, not just maternity leave.

But nowhere does it dig beneath the surface to explore the possibility that actively involving fathers more in childcare might produce better results all round, for families and the economy. Nowhere does it say out loud that this is a man’s issue too.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Should the discovery of skeletal remains near the home of missing Orlando girl Caylee Anthony's family could be particularly damning evidence in the accused mother's trial, but the mother also has a number of defense options, attorneys told FOXNews.com.

If the duct tape-bound remains are proven to be those of Caylee — who has been missing since June -- the method used to dispose of the body will become a significant factor in the first-degree murder trial of the girl's mother, Casey Anthony, attorney Scott H. Cupp said.
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"In any case where someone is charged with killing a child, the first thing you explore is some type of psychiatric defense," he said. "No one in their right mind would do something like this, so I'd hire my own experts to examine and explore her mental history and behavior to see if I can mount some type of psychiatric defense. No criminal would commit such a crime in such a fashion unless there was a psychiatric component."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Marking the 19th annual commemoration of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, Mr. Ignatieff issued a statement commiserating with the 14 female victims' families. Well and good.

Not well and good was the lily-gilding statement, "Even today, nearly one in three Canadian women are victims of spousal abuse."

This oft-cited figure is a myth, fabricated from whole ideological cloth. If true, the epidemic social pathology it represents would render Canada as dysfunctional as Darfur.
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Here are the facts Mr. Ignatieff's staff could not be bothered to research: The five-year incidence of spousal assault victimization reported by women in a recent StatsCan survey was 8% for women, 7% for men. It is not reported whether, as is likely, many of the victims were also perpetrators, since half of intimate partner violence (IPV) is reciprocal. For severe violence, the annual reported figures are 2.6% for men and 4.2% for women.

Story here. Excerpt:

'DECEMBER 10--Meet Brittany Phillips. Early Saturday morning, the 19-year-old Louisiana woman wanted some sex from her boyfriend. But Todd Stewart, 35, was apparently not in the mood. In fact, he tried to push Phillips off of him in the bedroom of the pair's West Monroe home. That much the couple can agree upon, according to Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office reports. Phillips claims Stewart became violent after rebuffing her advances. Stewart told an investigator that he left the bedroom to sleep on a living room couch, but that Phillips "would not leave him alone." At some point, he added, things got physical and he was stabbed in the lower lip with "a long metal object which appeared to be a knife."'

Excellent article from Psychology Today here. Excerpt:

'One of the things that evolution has done is to make men and women very different. In some ways (though not in others), males of one species are often more similar to males of other species than to females of their own species, and vice versa. In some ways, in many ways, men are more similar to male chimpanzees or gorillas than to women. One of the ways that men and women are different is in what makes them happy.

Forget what feminists, hippies, and liberals have told you in the last half century. They are all lies based on political ideology and conviction, not on science. Contrary to what they may have told you, it is very unlikely that money, promotions, the corner office, social status, and political power will make women happy. Similarly, it is very unlikely that quitting their jobs, dropping out of the rat race, and becoming stay-at-home dads to spend all their times with their children will make men happy.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A nursing-care company at the centre of a searing abuse case in which an emaciated 69-year-old stroke victim was found tied to his bed with a dog leash refused yesterday to discuss its role, or even acknowledge it was involved.

"Because of privacy laws in Ontario, I really cannot comment on any specific client or client case," said Lynn Tughan, vice-president of operations for S.R.T. Med-Staff.

At issue is the plight of Thomas "Tony" Butler, rescued from his Richmond Hill apartment in March after his adult daughter, Julie Henderson, discovered him and alerted York Regional Police.
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In sentencing, Mr. Justice Peter Bourque said Ms. Madi had tried to conceal Mr. Shakeri's repeated assaults on Mr. Butler, who stands 6 foot 1 and weighed just 68 pounds when his daughter found him at the apartment he shared with Ms. Madi, also 42.'

Via Glenn Sacks' Dec. 10 newsletter:

'Producer Kurt Kuenne is full of "fury at the injustice done to his best friend Andrew Bagby, a doctor who was set up and gunned down," apparently at the hands of an ex-girlfriend who he had broken up with.

Kuenne has made a film to memorialize his murdered friend and tell the world about the injustice his ex perpetrated. The legal system coddled the apparent killer, allowing her to be free on bail and have custody of their son, who she subsequently murdered.
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From Christopher Smith's review of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father:
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"Surrounding all this isn’t just the ache of loss felt by Andrew’s parents, which is so palpable, it burns, but also of his many friends and family, who are interviewed in ways that not only show us who Andrew was as a man, but also in ways that move the story forward. And where that goes, I’m not going.

Story here. You gotta see this one. This article claims to be the tragic story of a black girl born to white parents, get this, not because of paternity fraud, but because of some rare genetic throwback. Excerpt:

'Her African features were almost certainly a throwback to an unknown ancestor whose DNA, having lain dormant for generations, had emerged in her. But when Sandra was a schoolgirl, this aspect of genetics was unknown and there was no such thing as a DNA test.

There was only the cruel and relentless gossip suggesting that her mother had had an affair with a black man.

For four years, teachers and the parents of other pupils at her all-white primary school had fought to have her expelled on the grounds that she was of mixed race. Finally, they had succeeded.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'NASHUA – A 38-year-old woman was sentenced to prison Monday for sexually assaulting a teenage boy she initially accused of rape.

Robin Mowery of Nashua was convicted in June of four counts of felonious sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault involving a friend of her teenage daughter. Mowery was 35 at the time; the boy was 15.
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"Like it or not, an underage boy having sex with an older-aged girl is viewed differently than the other way around," Lynn said at the sentencing hearing.
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"Young men have raging hormones. It doesn't make him a bad person," said Lynn, who also noted that the teen also tried to use the relationship as a "bargaining chip" to escape penalty for crimes committed as a juvenile.

Video report here. Caption:

A mom is accused of hosting a sex party and allowing her teenage daughter to dance half-naked.

"So much for the fundamental responsibility of mothers protecting their children." -- Sheriff in interview

Just keep watching; the sheriff reports these kinds of cases (where mothers are pimping their kids out one way or another) are increasingly more common to his department.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A mother will appear before magistrates in Manchester this morning charged with murdering both of her children.

Jael Mullings was arrested after the bodies of two-year-old Romario Mullings-Sewell and his brother Delayno, aged three months, were found at their home in Kilmington Drive, Cheetham Hill, on November 12.

Both had been stabbed to death with a single wound to their chests, according to the post-mortem examinations.

Police and paramedics discovered the bodies at 5.45pm, a few hours after a GP called reporting concern for the children’s welfare.
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Officers had called at the house where the boys’ bodies were found just hours before the brothers were killed.

The boys were described as “gorgeous” and “beautiful” by their family. Their mother was sectioned under the Mental Health Act following their deaths.'

Article here. Well I suppose it keeps you from seeing the inside of a "family court" but it's sad commentary on the state of affairs between the sexes. We will soon see a male version I am sure. For all the money the inventor spent on creating this android, as imperfect as it is at mimicking an actual human, the truth is that the technology is available today and the only thing lacking is major funding and the input of more engineers who are as brainy (or nearly so) as the inventor. The selling price of the "Programmable Perfect Mate 3000" could be as high as $30,000 and there would be no shortage of takers. Heck, they could sell them for $100k and still make a mint. Cylons indeed! Excerpt:

'Inventor Le Trung, 33, created Aiko, said to be “in her 20s” with a stunning 32, 23, 33 figure, shiny hair and delicate features.

She even remembers his favourite drink and does simple cleaning and household tasks.

"Fem-bot" Aiko, who has cost £14,000 to build so far, is a whizz at maths and even does Le’s accounts.

Story here. Excerpt:

A 'perfect' mother massacred her five children by calling them one by one into her bedroom and slitting their throats, a Belgian court has been told.
Genevieve Lhermitte, 42, said she felt desperate and trapped alone at home with the children - four girls and a boy aged between 14 and three - while her husband Bouchaib Moqadem was away visiting his parents in Morocco.

On the day of the killings last year, which left Belgium in shock, she stole two knives from a supermarket and cooked a farewell lunch for the family before locking the front door and starting the massacre, the court in Nivelles, near Brussels, was told.
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She later told police she felt "desperate and trapped" at having to be at home with the children while her husband was away, the court heard.'