The Republican CNN YouTube Debate is currently scheduled for November 28, 2007. The YouTube format, in which anyone can submit a question for the candidates in a video uploaded to YouTube, presents a perfect opportunity for RADAR supporters to bring much needed attention to some of the issues RADAR addresses. As stated at youtube.com, http://www.youtube.com/debates, “The CNN political team will choose the most creative and compelling videos, and if yours is one of them, you may get the chance to fly to Tampa to watch the debate live and offer your reactions on video afterward.”

YouTube gives the following advice for your video being chosen:

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'Two 13-year-old boys accused of slapping girls' bottoms and poking or cupping girls' breasts at school apologized on Monday as a judge dismissed charges against the two, ending a six-month case that drew national attention.'

Great news! Not a complete victory though:

'The News-Register newspaper of McMinnville reported that a "civil compromise" reached by prosecutors and the defense called for both boys to apologize, to pay each of the four girls $250 and to complete a "boundaries education" program.'

Of course, the girls that were playing this game will not have to do the program or pay money (or will even be acknowledged as guilty as well). At least the boys will not be filed as sex offenders for the rest of the lives.

Curious, huh? The Lincoln Memorial protesters are covered in the UK MSM but not in the US. Wonder why? Story here. Excerpt:

'Two British Fathers 4 Justice activists were arrested at gunpoint by a Swat team at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, said the campaign founder.

A support crew of four were also held as the memorial was evacuated by US authorities.

British activists Jolly Stanesby and Mike Downes organised and performed the protest, with support by US colleagues on the ground, a Fathers 4 Justice spokesman said.'

Go ahead, Google "Fathers 4 Justice Lincoln Memorial" and see if you get any US MSM coverage. Not a single hit.

Stewart gives his take on the Duke outcome and the biased coverage by CNN's Nancy Grace. Absolutely hilarious!

Robert Pedersen and Robb MacKenzie made their 700 mile bicycle trek from Lansing, MI to Washington, D.C. in 5 days with plenty of time to spare before the August 18th Family Preservation Rally.

Visit http://www.cycling4children.com/ for more information.

View videos from their 700 mile trek here.

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More importantly look at the extensive media and blogger coverage of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek. The list is long and impressive!

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I was shocked this morning to read the news that Donald Tenn and three (3) other Fathers are being held in custody in Washington, D.C., following an alleged attempt by the Fathers to exercise constitutionally protected free speech rights.

I listened to one of the posted videos of the event, and heard a guard repeatedly say, "Don't give them any attention," or words to that effect. I guess those words say a lot about the attitude shown to Fathers, regarding many of their rights.

Donald Tenn Interview - June 2007 -SYG website

Donald Tenn Interview - June 2007 -MND blogwonks website

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'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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'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.'

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'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

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'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).

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'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.'

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'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.'