Update to this story is here. Excerpt:

'ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A stripper-turned-soccer-mom accused of borrowing from a movie plot to kill her fiancé for money was convicted Monday of first-degree murder.
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“This person manipulated the circumstances with her guile and deception,” prosecutor Pat Gullufsen had told the Superior Court jury. “All she needed was someone to kill him.”'

We'll see in January what sort of time she gets.

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to a recent article in Newsweek magazine, the number of male teachers has reached a 40-year low. In elementary school, only 9 percent of teachers are men, down from 18 percent in 1981.
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"Like the other male teachers interviewed for this story, Rosa says he's careful to do "sideways" hugs with his students and to abide by other guidelines when it comes to touching them. (High fives are definitely OK.) The male teachers were all cognizant of the fears about pedophilia, a subject that's gotten high-profile media attention, but none so far has experienced a problem. Some male teachers are married; some aren't. Some have kids of their own, some don't. All speak about how deeply rewarding a teaching career is. Ghafoor says he plans to earn a master's and possibly become a principal, but the rest say their place is forever in the classroom.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'"That male attitude may come from their most primal being, explained Barry Ginsberg, a Pennsylvania psychologist specializing in relationships. "For a man, the loss of having a family and carrying on the gene pool makes men helpless, because they can't give birth," Ginsberg said.

From an "evolutionary standpoint, men would go around impregnating all the women they could find, so that at least one of those women would survive and produce a child," he explained.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'At the next Clinton stop, a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H., Leslie Harrison, 52, said the fact that Clinton is a woman is important as she considers how to vote in the New Hampshire primary. "Men have been making a mess of things for a long time," she said. "A woman would be more sensitive to sending our children off to war."
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At the same time, in a theoretical general election test against Republican front-runner Rudolph W. Giuliani, Clinton has a lead that is almost entirely attributable to women. She also has a gaping lead among self-described feminists, according to the same poll. Men and women who call themselves feminists preferred Clinton 64 to 30 percent, while those who did not were evenly divided between Clinton and Giuliani, 48 to 46 percent.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'However, some of her assertions lack validity. My assertion in the column that the Clothesline Project is a feminist event which encourages women to "rage at the patriarchy" is correct. More importantly, Boguski dredges up the old feminist myth that "false allegations of sexual assault occur at the same rate as false allegations of other violent crimes, at just 2 percent of charges.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'After an argument with her cheating husband, an Iowa woman says she grabbed a knife to protect herself and he walked into it
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Dr. Richard Nelson, a prominent Iowa pediatrician and a medical college dean, had died of a stab wound to the heart.

His wife of 33 years, Phyllis Nelson, was charged with his first-degree murder.
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She'd pleaded not guilty, claiming it was an accident.

She said she'd held the blade straight in front of her in a posture of self-defense when she rounded a blind corner and her furious husband walked right into the blade.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Although it is not politically correct to say so, women can and do use false allegations of domestic violence to gain sole custody and to get their children to hate and fear their fathers. Even when a restraining order doesn’t snowball into complete parental alienation, a judge’s declaration that a father is an abuser can permanently tarnish his image in his child’s eyes. The damage to father/child relationships and to children’s mental health caused by the overzealous entering of restraining orders, however, is seldom if ever reported, while the harm caused by overtly violent acts following the failure to enter restraining orders most certainly is.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'During the past week, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has mailed letters to individuals identified as owning significant (usually $5,000 or more, according to Ponce, although the amount is not set by law), and notifying them they will not be able to purchase recreational licenses. When they apply for a license through the state's electronic system, their name will come up with a "denied" message.'

Review here. Excerpt:

"With “The Terror Dream,” Susan Faludi has taken the momentous subject of 9/11 and come to the conclusion that it led to ... an assault on the freedom and independence of American women. In the wake of 9/11, she argues, the great American cultural machine churned out a myth meant to “restore the image of an America invulnerable to attack” — “the illusion of a mythic America where women needed men’s protection and men succeeded in providing it.”

THE NEGLECTED VOTER: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma

From the book site review:

'The White Male Gap, as Kuhn terms it, comes to explain not only why these workingmen “left the party they had once built,” but why they came to believe Democrats stand for everyone but white men. He tells the story of the effect of terms like “angry white male,” explaining that these men did not want to be viewed as victims but “were no longer comfortable being portrayed as the reason everyone else was a victim.” Kuhn tells of the effect on men as factory jobs are lost, as pensions wither, as families’ breakdown, as popular culture mocks regular guys as “dumb down dads,” while the same men are told they should feel powerful due to “white male privilege.” In telling the story of how those deemed powerful came to feel powerless, he weaves the reader through the political battles of our time.'

The dates for the 2008 Family Preservation Festival and the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek are set in stone! Make sure that you ask off for the dates now. 2008 promises to be bigger and better than 2007! More information can be found on DaddyBlogger.com.

This Iowa woman kills her husband and leaves the body in the house for over a year. She gets convicted by a jury and gets 35 to 50 years in prison. She becomes a disciplinary problem in prison, but this doesn't stop the governor from doing the politically correct thing. He commutes her sentence to no more than 10 years. Give me one example, just one, where a man received the same deal for a similar crime against his wife. Of course, the article makes sure that all the wonderful things she is doing in prison are noted. Excerpt:

'A Shelby County jury found Duty guilty in 2004 of second-degree murder for shooting Shanahan to death. Iowa's mandatory sentencing guidelines meant Duty would spend at least 35 years of her 50-year sentence behind bars. Former Gov. Tom Vilsack reduced that to 10 years before leaving office. Duty will be eligible for parole in 2014 at age 47.
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Via Marc A. Video here. Give it a little time to load.

"Willie 'Pete' Williams tells CNN.com's Thom Patterson about spending half his life in prison for a rape he didn't commit."

Story here. Excerpt:

'“Statistically, the only two major differences between men and women in domestic violence are that men are far less likely than women to report it, and men inflict more physical injury on average,” said Marc Angelucci, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Coalition of Free Men. “In my non-profit work and as an attorney, I have worked with many male domestic violence victims, and I know for a fact that this is a major problem.”'

Story here. As usual, the excuses abound. Excerpt:

'KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Defense attorneys say Lisa Montgomery is a mentally ill woman who sincerely believed she was pregnant when she killed an expectant mother and cut the baby from her womb.

Prosecutors call her a liar who spent months researching Caesarean sections on the Internet before attacking Bobbie Jo Stinnett on Dec. 16, 2004, in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. They say Stinnett was conscious and trying to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to crudely cut the baby from her womb.

Both sides will make their cases to jurors during closing arguments Monday.'