Story here. Exceprt:

'A young Manhattan mother who allowed her lesbian lover to beat their 22-month-old son to death will serve more time in prison than the tot's killer.

Zahira Matos, 24, was sentenced Monday to 20 years to life behind bars - at least five years more than her lover - for staying silent about the savage beating.

Carmen Molina, 36, pummeled Yovani Matos so fiercely in September 2004 that she split his liver and fractured his leg. Both women were convicted of murder - Molina after pleading guilty last year and Matos after being found guilty earlier this year.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'For years, the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino in Port Perry, Ont., had a simple policy when it came to cleaning the casino's bathrooms - male employees cleaned the men's rooms and female staff the women's.

That might have remained the case were it not for Joanne Seguin, a part-time washroom attendant who complained that the policy was discriminatory. Her complaint has turned into a five-year battle and so far she's winning.

Last year, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ordered the casino to give her back pay plus $10,000 for "loss of dignity." The company appealed, but an Ontario court has now upheld the tribunal's decision, although it ordered a review of the monetary award.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Rotorua man's former partner has admitted gathering false evidence which led to his being jailed for rape before a court quashed his conviction.

Robert Sutton, who owns the Happy Angler store at Mourea, spent 10 months behind bars after being convicted in October 2005 of two violent rapes he says he never committed. He was released following a successful appeal and feels the wheels of justice are finally starting to turn in his favour.

The main complainant in the case against him, his former partner Marion Anne Carter, has this week admitted her role in Mr Sutton's wrongful conviction, pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman slit the throats of her two children and then stabbed them to death after an argument with her husband in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district, police said Saturday.
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"Savita slit the throats of her two children and then stabbed them to death," Javed Khan, a police officer, told IANS on the phone.

She had an argument Saturday morning with her husband over money matters, he added.

"Savita was mentally disturbed. After her husband, who is a taxi driver, left the home following the dispute, Savita killed her two children," Khan said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Long Island woman who poisoned a housemate by putting eye drops in his iced tea - a dirty trick depicted in the hit movie "Wedding Crashers" - was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation for the sickening assault.
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"It's not fair," said Gentissi, who had also accused Anzalone of killing his Chihuahua, Gucci.

"This is a woman who tried to poison me. She should have been charged with attempted murder. We were hoping she was going to get a strong sentence."

Anzalone's lawyer said her client was only protecting her unborn child, because Gentissi - who had lived with her and her then-husband, Christopher, in North Bellmore - refused to stop smoking around her while she was pregnant.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to Debrett's, the bible of etiquette, political correctness is slowly strangling chivalry.
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'Of course women don't need men to open doors. But at the same time, a little bit of chivalry is nice - and people need help knowing how to strike the balance, because the boundaries have become blurred.'

'Help a woman with her heavy bags, offer her a seat on the train if she is elderly or pregnant, stand when she enters the room. These are good manners and should come out instinctively rather than contrived gestures that feel outdated and oppressive.'

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'(AP) Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes.
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Henderson said the woman then tried to physically remove Boykins. During the ensuing struggle, Henderson said, Pouncy bit Boykin's' right shoulder and broke a picture frame across his face, causing visible cuts.

The woman then grabbed an approximately 2-foot sword and swung it at Boykin's, missing him, police said.

Pouncy was released from a Mansfield jail after posting a $10,000 bond, jail officials said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Over the past couple years, government agencies such as the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and NASA have started undertaking Title IX compliance reviews in university science and engineering programs at a handful of schools across the nation. In fact, auditors from the Department of Energy visited UW-Madison April 1-2 to review its graduate physics program, and a final report is due out by the end of the year.

"American scientists should brace themselves for the destructive tsunami headed their way," said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

"Here is what is extremely odd about this Title IX movement," said Sommers. "We are looking at a serious problem with males in education. Our universities are approaching 60 percent female. The University of Wisconsin is about 55 to 56 percent female. So why not have some investigations about the under-representation of men in college enrollment?"

Despite Mindelle Jacobs and the Edmonton Sun suggestions, these are the only two letters, currently online at the Edmonton Sun (Friday) [which address the Sept. 10 article]. We had heard that there might be a special section containing some of the best on letters received for Sunday. There is nothing there for Sunday. We had also heard that she might do a "follow-up column" but conventional wisdom suggests she probably has no intention of writing such a column and that she will simply 'ride out the storm' until some time has passed and the outrage has died down, and then begin her assault on us all over again, as she has done for years. We really should not let her and the Edmonton Sun get away with this.

The two letters are here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A father who is giving up after a four-year fight to see his daughters has written the two girls an emotional goodbye email, prompting fathers facing similar situations to say: "Remember, brother, you are not alone."

The email has been distributed as far as the US, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
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"My dearest daughters, today I say goodbye to you, as I no longer have the strength to continue the four-year battle with your mother. I am mentally, physically and financially drained. Please always know that I love you, and that this is no decision on my part," the email reads.

The father said his ex-wife had prejudiced his daughters against him, resulting in "hate faxes" in which the girls said they didn't want to see him. "I do not know you, I do not go to strangers," the eight-year-old wrote.'

An Arizona man will be sentenced to 70 1/2 years in prison for posing as 12 year old to enroll in school, possession of child pornography, and failure to register as sex offender. This will be a mandatory sentence, with no parole or credit for good time. He will be released when he is 100 1/2 years old.

Many of you may say that he deserves every last day of that. However, be aware that he didn't sexually assault or touch any child while attending the school. He also didn't kill anyone. How many people in the prison system are serving much less than 70 1/2 years for 1st or 2nd degree murder. Would a woman get this sentence or be committed to a hospital for 60 days?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Gloria Steinem, the grand mufti of feminism, issued a fatwa anathematizing Palin. A National Organization for Women spokeswoman proclaimed Palin more of a man than a woman. Wendy Doniger, a feminist academic at the University of Chicago, writes of Palin in Newsweek: "Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."
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The academic feminist left has scared the dickens out of mainstream men and women for so long, the liberal establishment is terrified to contradict feminists' nigh-upon-theological conviction that female authenticity is measured by one's blind loyalty to left-wing talking points. This is a version of the Marxist doctrine of "false consciousness," which holds that you aren't an authentic member of the proletariat unless you agree with Marxism.'

Story here. Unbelievable. He finds a naked man in his daughter's room. He didn't know she even had a boyfriend much less that he was sneaking into his house to "see" her. So what does he do? Well he probably thought the kid was a rapist and so attacked him; most men would do this and it's entirely justified. But now the dad faces criminal charges! Unbelievable. So the message to fathers is this: You can't defend your home against someone you perceive reasonably is an intruder bent on assaulting your children or else face criminal charges. Excerpt:

'Authorities say the father, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
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The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A health assistant at a southwest suburban elementary school was charged Thursday with sexual abuse after officials investigated illicit text messages she allegedly sent to teenage boys.
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During the investigation, police identified three boys who allegedly had physical sexual contact with Obzera in 2006, the release said. She was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The Fatherhood Foundation believes that fatherlessness is a major contributor to the problems our children face. Dr Bruce Robinson says that fatherlessness costs Australia $13 billion a year. Fatherlessness increases the likelihood that children will grow up in poverty, increased crime, drug abuse, youth suicide, child sexual abuse, mental health problems, high levels of child obesity, poor health, poor nutrition and lower levels of educational performance for children. In spite of what radical feminists may say about the ills of patriarchy, involved and loving fathers are foundational for the development of healthy children and strong families."