Story here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted to add funding for two of Sen. Joe Biden’s signature programs, the Violence Against Women Act and the Community Oriented Policing Services program.

President Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget proposed a reduction in funding for VAWA and eliminating funding for COPS.

But the Delaware Democrat’s measures to increase and restore funding passed the Senate last week as amendments to the Senate budget resolution, which sets the parameters for congressional spending. The House and Senate will have to work out differences between their resolutions.

The COPS program has funded the hiring of community police officers nationwide while the Violence Against Women Act supports programs related to domestic, sexual and dating violence and stalking.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband, her son-in-law and another man.

The sentence came Wednesday after Ivy Jean Davis, 67, pleaded guilty to five counts of criminal solicitation to commit murder and admitted to giving $200 to an undercover officer she thought was a hit man. The money was for him to buy an untraceable gun.

Clarke County Superior Court Judge Steve Jones also told Davis to serve 20 years of probation with special conditions and pay a $1,000 fine.
...
"I wouldn't hurt nobody," Davis said. "I didn't get a chance to do nothing. I'm a very compassionate person."
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A sting was set up and authorities said Davis gave the undercover officer pictures of her husband and her son-in-law, as well as instructions and a map to their homes. She also tried to have her boyfriend's son killed, police said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"Two female middle school teachers were arrested Wednesday on charges they got into a fight in front of students, officials said.

Eighth grade teachers Tawana Horton, 30, and Cambrella Pinckney, 28, bumped into each other during a hallway class change Friday afternoon at St. Andrews Middle School and began fighting, according to a report by the Richland County sheriff's department.

The two teachers told an officer that they had an ongoing personal dispute, the report said.

The teachers were charged with disturbing schools and have been placed on administrative leave, deputies said."

Marc Rudov, an advocate for men and fathers and frequent guest on FOX News programs (as well as many other media appearances worldwide), has begun his own radio talk show. Per his recent newsletter:

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"On Thursday, 03.27.08, at 2PM ET (11AM PT), I will begin hosting a new radio talkshow, "The Marc Rudov Show." This show will succeed ONLY if YOU call me on the air. I'll use this platform as another weapon in my arsenal -- besides my Web site, books, podcasts, articles, and radio/TV guest appearances -- to inspire men to take action, to improve their lives.

"Go to www.MarcRudovRadio.com for details. The call-in number is: 877.474.3302. Use it!

"Also: Tell your friends around the world to tune in. WSRadio will archive all the shows."

Story here. Suppose if the sexes were reversed, she would be facing charges? In either case the other person would have been in the wrong for not doing something sooner. And either person would rightly be called, well, stupid. But the question here is equal treatment/protection under the law. Is a man getting equal treatment as compared to what a woman gets in a comparable situation? Excerpt:

'NESS CITY, Kan. - A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.
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McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied “maybe tomorrow.”

“The only thing I am guilty of is I didn’t get her help sooner,” McFarren told The Associated Press nearly a week ago.

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Story here. Women are not in combat roles yet female veterans are suffering from higher rates of mental health issues?

What do you guys make of this "military sexual trauma" rhetoric?

Should I be surprised the VA has started health clinics specifically for women? Excerpt:

'In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs found that women are reporting signs of mental health issues when they return home at a higher rate than their male counterparts.

The VA diagnosed 60,000 veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Of those, 22 percent of women suffered from "military sexual trauma," which includes sexual harassment or assault, compared with 1 percent of men.

"PTSD is actually something that shows up over time, and so the natural recovery process doesn't happen," said Dr. Darrah Westrup, who counsels female veterans at the VA-run Women's Health Clinic in Menlo Park, California.'

From Terri Lynn at True-Equality.org:

[Click 'Read more' for links to files referred to herein]

The attached is my latest investigative report. It discloses -- through candid video interviews with former shelter residents linked to in the report -- how women are being forced into sexual servitude (forced to have sex with the female shelter staff and others) in order to remain in the shelter. In addition, a former San Diego prosecutor is caught on video all but bragging about how “everyone would be in jail” for perjury if false claims of domestic violence were prosecuted (a link to that interview in included as well).

It is being called my best piece yet. Preview copies sent to radio show hosts have landed me nine shows (booked in one day).

Please accept this one - it pulls no punches for anyone.

I have attached three copies. One Word file includes the charts and tables that support the information proffered in the work. The other has hyperlinks to the charts and tables, no graphics. The third is the HTML.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The decline of marriage is leading to widespread underachievement and indiscipline in schools, teachers warned yesterday.

Children with "chaotic" home lives turn up at school too troubled to learn, wrecking their prospects of success in exams, they said.

Growing numbers are being brought up in splintered families by mothers with children by different fathers, leading to behaviour and mental health problems including eating disorders and suicidal thoughts, a teachers' conference heard.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"The country's leading literary award for women novelists is sexist and should be scrapped, a prominent male novelist claimed yesterday.

Tim Lott said the £30,000 Orange Prize - founded 13 years ago amid claims that women writers fared poorly in awards such as the Booker Prize - was "discriminatory, sexist and perverse".

He said: "I know that I face derision and ridicule but a lot of writers I have spoken to find it [the prize] ridiculous and unfair..."

...Girls in schools are more literate than boys, and pupils are taught reading mainly by female teachers promoting mainly female writers.

"Could the establishment of a men-only prize, with men-only judges, be justified given their level of relative exclusion in schools and the marketplace? Can you imagine the derision with which it would rightly be met?"

Because a man finally objected.

Story here. Intro paragraph reads:

Photo collages on the walls of the Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court building were taken down Monday after an Olympia resident complained they discriminated against men.

The graphics in question have been hanging for four years, passed daily by men on their way to Faimly court to lose their children, their homes, and their life's work. When men raised objections, they were finally taken down. Interestingly, the story doesn't mention who ordered them put up. Ah, the anonymity of bureaucracy!

Read the comments - the implication is that only one man objected, but that does not appear to be true.

Story here.

Thankfully they weren't drinking coffee. Excerpt:

"Heather Mills threw a glass of water over the coiffured hair of Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer after McCartney was ordered to pay her just 24.3 million pounds ($61 million) to settle their divorce, according to British media reports.

Mills emerged from court declaring she was happy with yesterday's ruling, despite it being less than a fifth of what she had demanded.

But The Sun newspaper reported that as the hearing came to an end, Mills calmly walked over to McCartney's lawyer Fiona Shackleton and soaked her.

Shackleton appeared outside court smiling but with wet hair."

Matt Drudge managed to get a full text copy of Barack Obama's speech given today in Philadelphia on the subject of race; currently it is here. (If that link is cold, try this one.)

It is utterly history-making, in my judgment. However I have one peeve with it that MRAs should take note of; the quote is here:

'And it means taking full responsibility for own lives – by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.'

If we get enough votes we can win a $1,000 prize that would help us sustain and expand our mission to, Stop Abuse For EVERYONE"! [If you already have a Facebook account, just click here, sign in, and add the Razoo app. If not, you can sign up for one and add the app afterward.]

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This was published in Australia on News.com.au today.

Apparently, top jobs are still held back from the poor women, the glass ceiling just never goes away does it. So okay, maybe women don't want those jobs, and maybe they prefer more flexibility in their life, but hey that's no reason for them not to get them, right?

The interesting thing is, there's no comparison based on choice. For example I'm a male single parent low-level manager with young kids, in a dynamic fast-moving company. I 'could' choose to go for a higher level management role, but I wouldn't as it would cost me too much in time with my kids - and equally I wouldn't get picked, because management know I'd always be saying no to extra events and evening functions. So, how is that different from how women are treated..?

A direct comparison piece of research is needed here...