In this week's alert, we asked you to contact Rep. George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee three times this week. His committee is the one that will be considering House Resolution 590, a resolution which RADAR believes to be the most misleading, biased, and untruthful bill on domestic violence ever introduced in the House.

We need to get this message through to Rep. Miller, loud and clear. If you've already phoned his office, please also email or fax him. And vice versa if you've already emailed or faxed. And if you haven't contacted his office yet, please do it now.

For a detailed analysis of the 18 claims in this resolution that are one-sided, misleading, or outright false, see http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARanalysis-HRES590.pdf

Be sure to refer to "HRES 590" which is a resolution on domestic violence, and not "H.R.590" which is a completely unrelated bill on a totally different issue. And as always, be polite in all your communications with Congress.

Here's the contact information:

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Ted Wallis, a doctor in Austin, Texas, recently came upon a lost child in tears in a mall. His first instinct was to help, but he feared people might consider him a predator. He walked away. "Being male," he explains, "I am guilty until proven innocent."

In San Diego, retiree Ralph Castro says he won't allow himself to be alone with a child -- even in an elevator.

Last month, I wrote about how our culture teaches children to fear men. Hundreds of men responded, many lamenting that they've now become fearful of children. They said they avert their eyes when kids are around, or think twice before holding even their own children's hands in public.'

This ABC Primetime program ruined my evening. This woman is suspected of stealing checks from the family business run by her husband, keeping an IRS Audit secret from her husband (regarding the checks she was supposed to pay the IRS instead of herself), and then killing her husband. She plead guilty to second degree murder (parole in 15 years). She refused to tell the judge the details of the crime, but the judge accepted the plea anyway. Why was she offered this deal?...because the prosecutor didn't want the children to testify.

What? Why didn't they try her based on the evidence they already had? If a man did this, wouldn't he be put in prison for life or get the death penalty.

Of course, the defense now says that she didn't do this crime, she just wanted to "protect her children". How disgusting....why do we put up with this gents? The family of the husband suspects that she has the millions in checks she stole hidden for when she is released from prison.

Article here.

More insight on the new book, "Until Proven Innocent". A book I plan to purchase tomorrow. The book review doesn't seem too positive. Excerpt:

"The authors make the Duke faculty look at once ridiculous and craven. For months, not one of the university's nearly 500-member faculty of arts and sciences stood up to question the rush to judgment against the lacrosse team. So much for the ideal of the liberal-arts university where scholars debate openly and seek the truth. ("This book provides one interpretation," says Duke spokesman John Burness.) The only group that shows any common sense in "Until Proven Innocent" is the student body. Aside from a few noisy activists who assumed the players were guilty, Duke undergrads mostly overlooked the political correctness of their professors."

This debate originally aired on 6/25/07.

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This link gives many televised debates between Ruduv and Wiehl.

Article here.

This article is a bit old, but this entire website is full of interesting and thought provoking opinions. Example:

"When you think about it, the traditional way of dealing with a woman is to permit her to control your life. Men mistakenly believe they will have more peace that way. This moronic behavior, based on the false assumption that men must crawl through broken glass to get laid, leads to devastating consequences. It’s quite scary to realize how much control over their lives men have conceded to women, with lots of help from misandric feminists and politicians."

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Over the next 25 years, the fems engineered the passage of a series of laws and programs that afforded ever-expanding legal rights and services to women. Those laws included the Violence Against Women Act, the Women's Educational Equity Act, women's health programs, the 1996 welfare reform, and many more.

How did the Girls of Guile get away with their equality ruse, when in fact they were duplicitously scheming behind the scenes to foist a hierarchical society on the rest of us?

First, they relentlessly shaded the truth - consider Hillary Clinton's laughable canards that women suffer from wage discrimination, were routinely excluded from medical research, are more likely to be the victims of war, and so on.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

"This comes when women feel unprecedented pressure to go to work, whether they want to or not; more than half of all mothers of children under five do so, leaving 0.5m children in daycare. What this means, often and even in allegedly satisfactory situations, is leaving children in their most impressionable and formative years in the care of poorly educated, poorly paid, poorly qualified or unqualified women, who come and go at a high rate."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Mother-of-two Holly Schnobrich knew she was too drunk to get behind the wheel of her car.

But her judgment was so clouded by drink and drugs that she asked her five-year-old son to be the designated driver.

After her 2002 Mitsubishi screeched to a halt outside her house, Miss Schnobrich even boasted to a worried neighbour: "He's a good driver."

But when five-year-old Weston Schnobrich was quizzed by police he was forced to admit he was "having a hard time because I can't reach the pedals".

The 24-year-old mother is now behind bars in Lafayette, Indiana, charged with child endangerment and public intoxication.'

Rep. Ted Poe of Texas recently introduced a resolution on domestic violence in the U.S. House of Representatives. This is probably the most misleading, biased, and untruthful bill on domestic violence ever introduced in the House.

The resolution has 23 claims – 18 of them are one-sided, misleading, or simply false. One of the claims is a factoid from nowhere. You can see the resolution and RADAR’s analysis here (.pdf file)

The Resolution – known as “HRES 590” – has now been referred to the House Education and Labor Committee for consideration. The chairman of that committee is George Miller. He is the person who decides when – and whether – the Resolution will be brought up for a debate and vote.

The plain and simple truth is, we must stop this before it receives the stamp of approval from the House of Representatives. And we want to do it this week.

We are asking every person who reads this Alert to contact Mr. Miller, three times this week. We want Mr. Miller to receive thousands of messages to stop HRES 590.

Who Will Underwrite Divorce Insurance?

What kind of financial insurance is available for people served with divorce papers, most of whom are men? There isn't any that I've been able to find. Could it be the risk of divorce is just too great, or catastrophic, for any potential insurer to underwrite? Have men just been conditioned to accept that risk, on penalty of being viewed as “unromantic?”

There’s nothing more “unromantic” than being served with divorce papers and having your life stolen out from under you.

Is Risk Management A Modern Fact of Life For Married, and Marriageable, Men?

American men today, face marriage as an enormous risk, greater than at any other time in our history, in my opinion. Considering that a man's assets are in many ways subject to perils parallel to those many businesses face, are there ways to manage, avoid, reduce, or otherwise confront the “divorce risk” that men face today?

Story here. Excerpt:

'And in "Gunpowder & Lead," from her album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, country firebrand Miranda Lambert makes all that seem downright wussy. She lights a cigarette and lies in wait for an abusive boyfriend with a loaded shotgun at the ready: "His fist is big but my gun's bigger/He'll find out when I pull the trigger."
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One example: 17-year-old Taylor Swift, whose single "Picture to Burn" finds her "sitting here planning my revenge." She gets it this way: "Go ahead and tell your friends I'm obsessive and crazy/I'll tell mine you're gay."'

Yep, a woman who lied about rape is going to jail. But before you get excited about this, she's not actually going to jail for lying about the rape. She just had her probation revoked for a drug related crime. Excerpt:

'The statute of limitations prevented Lummis from being charged with perjury. But on Friday, Lummis, 41, turned herself in after her probation was revoked last week. She will serve a four-year prison term imposed in 1998, when she pleaded guilty to fraudulently attempting to obtain prescription diet pills.'

The New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men will have a well-known guest speaker during its September meeting. Warren Farrell will be giving a presentation, "The Boy Crisis" and discuss the cultural and academic challenges boys are facing today. The meeting is open to the public, and policy makers and educators are especially encouraged to attend. This is a rare opportunity to hear Warren speak in the Northeast.

The presentation will be held in room 206 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord, NH on Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 1-4 PM. No RSVP is necessary, and again, the public is welcome to attend. Here is a map of the meeting location.