Story here. Excerpt:

'But today's study says white, working-class boys are most at risk of underachieving. Of the 33,404 white boys eligible for free school meals, just 37 per cent can read and write properly at 14. This compares with 57 per cent of working-class white girls and 46 per cent of black boys.

Chris Skidmore, the Bow Group chairman and the report's author, said: "This study reveals the shocking underachievement of boys at every stage. If we want to raise standards in schools, tackling these problems early on is crucial - the half of all boys who fail at 11 are the same half of all boys failing at GCSE and beyond.'

On Glenn Sacks: This is probably not good publicity, but at least it shows that we're serious!

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Excerpt:
'Fatherhood activist Bob Norton was present yesterday when two Fathers 4 Justice activists beached security and climbed onto the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. He sent me the following eye-witness account of the incident:

"I was at the Lincoln Memorial today and witnessed and filmed two F4J UK folks climb into Abe Lincoln’s lap at the Lincoln Memorial. I was detained for about an hour by park police and a SWAT team arrived quickly thereafter. Although they were respectful to me, they patted me down three times and I told them I did not consent to any search.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The effort is aimed at men ages 21 to 34, who are the most common offenders.

Male patrons will receive the following message from a female voice:

“"Hey big guy, going out tonight? Having a few drinks? Make sure if you’re drinking, you find a sober driver. Because if you drink and drive, the next urinal you use could be in jail. Remember, your future is in your hand.”"'

Related: Video: Urinals will warn against drunken driving

Article here. Excerpt:

'Mary Winkler, the Tennessee woman who shot her minister husband to death while he slept, was released back into society this week after serving just 67 days, most of it in a prison hospital.

Did she get away with murder? Many think she did, including two TODAY experts, former judge and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow.

“You can’t give Mary Winkler, in my opinion, any kind of clean bill of health that she won’t be violent in the future,” Ablow told TODAY host Meredith Vieira on Thursday.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

'"Enough is enough," thundered Newark mayor Cory Booker at Saturday's funeral of Dashon Harvey. The weekend before Dashon, age 20, and two of his friends had been forced to kneel against a wall at a nearby school playground and shot in the head, execution-style.

Dashon had been a student at Delaware State University, eventually hoping to become a social worker.

City Journal commentator Steven Malanga reveals the social pathology that lies behind those murders: "An astonishing 60 percent of the city's kids are growing up without fathers. Studies have also found that about 70 percent of the long-term prisoners in our jails, those who have committed the most violent crimes, grew up without fathers."'

Article here.

"When it comes to gender equality in the classroom, says one local educator, our public schools are earning an F"

Manthey's mantra, and rallying cry, seems to be: Don't blame the boys.

"When girls were behind in math and science, we said, 'We want to help these girls' and that there's something wrong with the schools," he says. "But when boys don't do well in school, we say there's something wrong with the boy."

Feminists have painted themselves into a corner by ignoring medical science. Soon to be published research: humans have a cross gender parenting brain, and then there is the maternal brain and the PATERNAL brain.

Men always knew how to father their children, it's hard-wired, even Dr. Spock advised and to paraphrase "Let fathers do with children what comes naturally to them."

The following citation to quote:

'On the behavioral level, a variety of studies in humans have reported a correlation between the absence of the father during childhood and the risk for alcoholism, poor educational performance, aggressiveness and criminality (Vaden-Kiernan et al., 1995; Baskerville, 2002).

Story here. Excerpt:

'BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- A German court said Friday it ordered the early release on parole of a former Red Army Faction member who was convicted in the 1985 murder of a U.S. soldier.

Eva Haule can be released August 21 after serving 21 years of her life sentence, the Frankfurt state court said in a statement.
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In 1994, a Frankfurt court found her guilty of participating in the murder of Edward Pimental, a 20-year-old Army soldier, in the western German city of Wiesbaden, as well as in the bombing of the U.S. Rhein-Main air base.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Whether they are mourning the passing of their prime or struggling to cope with the demands of a job and young family, those aged 35-44 invariably hit a mid-life crisis when their happiness level plunges lower than at any other age, according to a study for the Government.

It makes them the least satisfied members of society, scoring well below teenagers, the elderly - and women of all ages.

Researchers found that it takes men until they reach the age of 65 to start enjoying life as much as they did in their late-teens and early-20s.
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The biggest difference between the sexes was in the contentment of those not working, with women far happier than men to stay at home not seeking work.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'AUGUST 15--In a pathetic end to the Mike Nifong saga, the disgraced North Carolina prosecutor who handled the Duke rape investigation has turned in his law license, noting that he never framed or displayed the document because it had been damaged "by a puppy in her chewing stage."'

Men's News Daily has just moved most of its authors to blogworks, due to the way Google searches on news stories. Here's a first submission through blogworks.

Has Spiritual Abusiveness Driven Some Men From America's Churches, “Volunteer” Organizations, and More?

Excerpt:
'Much has been written about the spiritual and emotional abuse of Churches in America, but that abuse, targeting also Fathers and men, extends far beyond those supposedly safe havens. In today's world, the spirit of Fathers and men is deserving of respect and courtesy, but is assailed on all sides with insults, put-downs, unfair characterizations, judgmental attitudes, condemning comments, negative stereotypes and a host of other destructive imagery, and visualizations. The emotional and spiritual abuse of men extends far beyond the realm of America's Churches, into the institutional settings of education, law, entertainment, commercial advertising, news, and more.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'HOUSTON (AP) - In a confrontation captured on videotape, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor.

Now the man says the baby girl suffers from head trauma because she was dropped.
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David Boling, an off-duty Houston police officer working security at the hospital, and another security guard can be seen on the surveillance video arriving at the elevators and trying to talk with Lewis. Lewis appears agitated as he walks around the elevators holding his daughter in his right arm.

Within 40 seconds of arriving, Boling is holding the Taser. He walks around Lewis and whispers to the other guard, who moves to Lewis' right side.

About a minute later, Boling can be seen casually standing near Lewis, not looking in his direction, when he suddenly raises the Taser and fires it at Lewis, who was still holding his daughter.'

Remember men, a man holding a baby is ipso facto a criminal!

Rape or party?

Excerpt:
'Airman 1st Class Cassandra Hernandez, 20, said she got drunk at a party the night of May 12, 2006, and she admits that her memories of the evening are fuzzy at best. Airman 1st Class Jerrel Apache, Airman Russell Basile and Airman Rotez Butler also admit they had been drinking for several hours.

But fuzzy memories alone can’t explain the discrepancies between what they say and what she says happened after the party, in the early-morning hours of May 13, 2006.

Hernandez told investigators that the men gang-raped her in a dorm room. The men say Hernandez consented to have sex with each of them, and that she instigated the sex."

Story here. Excerpt:

'After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher was released on Tuesday, her lawyer told CNN.

Mary Winkler, a 33-year-old mother of three girls, was freed from a Tennessee mental health facility where she was treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, lawyer Steve Farese said.
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Farese said his client will not talk to the news media because she continues to wage a legal battle to win custody of her girls and faces a $2 million civil suit filed by the parents of of her slain husband, Matthew Winkler.

Story here. Poor Dearism taken to the point where even criminal negligence leading to infant homicide is excusable. Excerpt:

'A Wyoming County mother who left her young child in her car while she worked will not be charged with the baby's death.

Lynn Brol said she forgot to drop her 5-month-old son, Brayden, at day care on Aug. 2 and drove directly to her job at a credit union in Arcade.
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The boy was found dead by his mother at the end of the workday, nine hours later.
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The death was ruled accidental. Brol could have been charged with criminally negligent homicide, a charge that would result from conduct so reckless it results in a fatality.

An autopsy showed that Brayden was otherwise healthy with no bruises or suspicious marks.

Arcade Police Chief John Laird and his office investigated the death. "It was a tragic accident and I support the DA's decision," he said.'