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Seems like Larry Summers and the recent math-and-girls dust-up just go together far too well to be ignored. So some mainstream and not-so-mainstream news sources have run with the ball. This from the National Post editors, with this from the City Journal. Excerpt from the Nat:

'Unfortunately, journalists of both sexes tend to not be math geniuses. Few of them anywhere on the continent noticed that Ms. Hyde’s data actually come a lot closer to supporting Mr. Summers’ hypothesis than they do to refuting it.

The study certainly does confirm that there is probably no difference between males and females in math ability, on average. This means that, if one were to plot out the observed mathematical proficiency of a large number of male and female individuals, the resulting graphical pattern would produce two sex-segregated bell curves centred on roughly the same average point.

Story here. To think, one can embezzle millions from an employer and walk with a slap on the wrist. Corporations can fail to pay billions in taxes without so much as a fine. But a man behind on "child support" payments either willfully or by force of circumstance moves to a different country and it's a no-holds-barred effort to track the rat-fink down! I mean, he had the temerity to do what women with custody of their kids do all the time-- move to a new country-- and that's all that needs saying for yet another search-and-destroy law. Excerpt:

'THOUSANDS of deadbeat dads are fleeing to New Zealand to escape paying child maintenance.

More than 20,000 Australian parents have escaped overseas to avoid paying child support, with figures revealing NZ is a favourite haven, the Herald Sun reports.

These parents owe around $90 million in unpaid child support, but the Australian Government is about to crack down on them.
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Human Services Minister Senator Joe Ludwig said parents who avoided financial obligations to their children would be tracked down.

Story here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON - July 24 - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the House Education and Labor Committee to pass H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act, with no weakening amendments. This important legislation would update the Equal Pay Act, one of the primary laws addressing pay discrimination.

Court decisions and loopholes have chipped away at the Equal Pay Act over the years, making it less effective in combating pay discrimination. The Paycheck Fairness Act, with 228 cosponsors to date, would strengthen and improve protections against workplace discrimination.'

If you want to read it, track it, learn about committee membership (including contact info), etc., go here.

Some commentary by Carrie Lukas challenging the underlying assumptions is here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Judges in Michigan now can order domestic violence suspects - even before they go to trial - to wear global positioning system (GPS) devices, which monitor their whereabouts to ensure that they stay away from their alleged victims. If a suspect comes near a victim, the system sends out an alert. Not only are authorities notified, but the victim gets a cell-phone call letting them know that the suspect is nearby.'

Wonder if female suspects will get the same treatment as male ones?

A mere three days before that article went to print, this one was published. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - A Japanese woman went on a spree, stabbing seven men at a crowded train station in Hiratsuka, 43 miles southwest of Tokyo.

Hidetoshi Yukitake, a Japanese police spokesman said the woman tried to slash her wrist with an army knife inside a shopping mall Monday night near the train station. The woman was bumped by a passing pedestrian, which further enraged her.

Yukitake said, "She was screaming as she was slashing people at random. She said she was frustrated. She was also angry at her father."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Detectives say Mrs Lees suspected the 43-year-old Navy avionics lecturer of being unfaithful, and administered a toxin to try to coax him into admitting his infidelity.

She is said to have made the repeated attempts, despite having a long-term affair with a neighbour herself.

Police, who said Mr Lees had been having an affair, are still waiting to find out what drugs she used in the last attack.

But they believe they may have been those prescribed for her own depression. They are investigating if she may also have used the date rape drug GHB.'

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Ed. note: Notice that "date rape drug GHB" reference. The GHB date rape drug myth has been exposed as an urban myth but still, it continues. But the BBC just had to slip that in there, didn't they?

Story here. Excerpt:

'The 22-year-old, who was not identified, has pleaded not guilty in the District Court to endangering the life of the baby at her Blakeview home in May, 2007.

The father, who also cannot be named, told the court he and his then-partner had been arguing on the night the baby was allegedly put into the aquarium.

He said the child had been crying and his partner was not able to make her stop. He saw his partner walk past their bedroom and then saw her walk back without the child.'

Activism has its effects; read it here. Looks like Ms. Dunleavey got the message. And while she isn't filled with contrition for her previous column, she at least responded to the input. It's a start. Excerpt:

'Most of the letters were from men. Many were morally outraged. And most said: Why don't you write about how to leave your wife without going broke?
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State laws, your personal circumstances, the lawyers or mediators involved in the case and, perhaps especially, a judge may all determine how equitable the terms of a divorce are.

"If you choose to go before a judge, you are subject to the biases of that judge, and they cut both ways," Smith says.

Smith also took issue with the motive behind my initial article, which stemmed from my conviction that women need a bigger push to take the reins of their finances. "I see just as many men who don't want to deal with these issues," she says.'

Editorial here. Excerpt:

'Nationally, just like clockwork, Congress approves a resolution declaring June as Men's Health Month. But the Men's Health Act, which would establish a national Office of Men's Health to conduct and support programs to make men live longer, has been bandied about without action since its introduction in 2001.
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...The state Department of Health makes money available for cervical and breast cancer screenings, but not for prostate and testicular cancer screenings. Its reproductive-health program is focused exclusively on women. And its Web site features a women's health page, while devoting minimal space to issues specific to the fathers, sons and brothers who too often die before their time, victims of undetected diseases and poor lifestyle choices.'

The American Bar Association can't kick the habit. Two years ago the ABA published "10 Myths about Custody and Domestic Violence," a report that purports to demolish falsehoods that surround child custody and DV.[1]

But it's a sham.

In the name of stopping lies, the ABA "fact-sheet" actually invents new lies and expands on the old ones. Here's just one example:

"Among false allegations, fathers are far more likely than mothers to make intentionally false allegations."

The truth, of course, is no good research has ever shown that, and mothers are usually the ones who make false accusations. All this is spelled out in RADAR's Special Report, "Myths of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence: Summary Report."[2]

Last week we asked everyone to contact the ABA president, William Neukom, and tell him to remove the offending report. (If you haven't done so, here's his email: abapresident-at-abanet.org)

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman whose false rape allegation led to the collapse of her victim’s marriage has been jailed for four months after a judge branded her ‘wicked’.

Tracey Winfield, 21, claimed she had been held down in a park by her former boyfriend Richard Peacock while his friend Dean Frasier raped her.
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The pair, both innocent, were forced to undergo medical examinations and give intimate samples before being released on bail.
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Mr Rowe said Winfield and Mr Peacock had a troubled three-year relationship, and she had made 14 allegations to police about him.

Most of these were not taken further - although Mr Peacock was twice convicted of public order offences in 2006 as a result of them.'

Outstanding article by Erin Pizzey:

"Yesterday, Ms Harman — who, worryingly, is acting Prime Minister during Gordon Brown’s summer holiday — set out new proposals that may lead to a change in the law in cases of murder involving domestic violence.

Effectively, what Harman and the ultra-feminist lobby want is a licence for women to kill.

If this plan is enacted, we will no longer have absolute justice in this country. Instead, our courts will have to use a carefully calibrated measure of female grievance against which to judge the darkest of all crimes.

The absurdity of the Harman position is the pretence that women in a violent relationship have no alternative but to kill their partners."

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Ed note: Also covered here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'CHICAGO - A milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer’s disease is alarmingly more common than has been believed, and in men more than women, doctors reported Monday.

Nearly a million older Americans slide from normal memory into mild impairment each year, researchers estimate, based on a Mayo Clinic study of Minnesota residents.
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Men were nearly twice as likely as women to develop it. That’s a surprise, because some studies have found more women with Alzheimer’s than men. But there may be a simple explanation: Even though more men may be impaired, women outlive them and therefore have more time to develop full-blown dementia.'