Story here. Excerpt:

"When Vitter's wife was asked about the marital scandals surrounding former Representative Livingston and former President Bill Clinton in 2000 she said, "I'm more like Lorena Bobbit than Hillary, if he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."

Article here. Excerpt:

"The numbers tell the story: Fathers do 67 percent more housework and 50 percent more child care than 25 years ago, according to surveys by the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit organization based in New York.

Decades ago, men responded to fatherhood by honing their ability to support a family. Now, more are making career sacrifices and adjusting their work days as they try to reconcile the roles of provider and parent.

Yet they don’t always find sympathy at their jobs. Bosses and colleagues who nod knowingly when a new mother scales back may react with surprise when a new father wants to do the same. And the biggest career-oriented rewards, many experts say, still go to those with few home duties, who can devote their full energy to work."

Article here. Excerpt:

"It's harder for women to get elected to begin with because men have the networks already in place," said NOW president Kim Gandy. "So women have to keep building new networks over and over. It's certainly been an unexpected consequence of term limits.""

Article here. Excerpt:

“Women relied on men for their support. They still rely on men for their support but, sadly, that support is now being channelled via our tax system and the vast majority of taxes are contributed by men.

“The detritus left in the wake of 30 years of feminism is considerable, an international disaster. And, as with most other disasters, such as 9/11, it falls mainly to men to clear up the mess.”

Article here. Excerpt:

"A woman told police she was abducted in broad daylight, driven to an unknown location and repeatedly raped. But that woman, Mary E. Chafin, has been charged with filing a false report after detectives could find not evidence supporting her claim."

Story here.

Has anyone ever heard of protests during jury selection causing a mistrial? What happened here is that the judge declared a mistrial after protests filled with people with "taped mouths" made it supposedly impossible to find an impartial jury. Does anyone think that this had a motive? Is is possible that this woman and her attorney wanted this result so that she can take the trial to another city and perhaps get another judge who will let her say anything she wants during the trial (like sexual assault kit and sexual assault nurse examiner…I'm not kidding, read the article!)?

Another article on this states that the jury was almost evenly split during a previous trial (a new venue and judge will probably only increase the chances of the "right" verdict being decided). One things for sure, the press is definitely on the side of the defendant. This judge is now called the "word banning judge" by the Omaha World Herald.

Story here.

Boy, don't you just feel sorry for this woman. She had to have a bowl of fruit ready for her husband when he came home…and, he made the household decisions (how abusive!!). And don't forget about her being depressed because of her father dying. She definitely had the right to have a hit man kill her husband. Of course, since the hitman "may" get parole by the age of 40, this woman justifiably should definitely not be given the death penalty or life in prison.

I personally think she should be sent to a mental hospital for 2 months and get her husbands full estate (perhaps I'm being sarcastic!). Yet another sickening article about a female trying to get a free pass from being convicted of a horrible crime. A man doing the same deed would be shouted at by the prosecution and victims for hours before sentencing. A man would get sentenced to additional time for telling about his emotions or difficult marriage!

Story here. Excerpt:

'Family life is under threat from rising divorce rates and the longest working hours in Europe, the Children's Society has warned.
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It claims childhoods are being damaged by parental break-ups and growing pressure on mothers to return to work.
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Experts who submitted evidence to the Children's Society inquiry arrived at 'some consensus' that children were ideally brought up by both parents together.

Living with married parents was linked to a range of positive consequences for children.'

Posted on behalf of Marc A.:

I recently sent a letter to the editor of a newspaper in Malta, the Malta Independent, in response to their gender-biased article on domestic violence that left male victims invisible. I cited and linked the recent 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire (Straus), which included Malta and which confirmed that female students initiate DV as often as male students and that controlling behavior is found equally in perpetrators of both sexes.
[http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf]
The editor wrote back and said she would do a story on it. The story just printed, read it here. Excerpt:

"The study’s results challenged the common assumption that violence between partners is mainly a male crime, and that “when women are violent it is self-defence”.

Last week, it was discovered that Katie Couric physically assaulted a subordinate editor for using a word in a news story that she could not pronounce. A unidentified witness to the event said that Katie Couric slapped a fellow male editor in anger "over and over and over again on the arm". (http://nymag.com/news/features/34452/index6.html) "It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn't kidding".

Couric grudgingly admitted to the assault in a New York Magazine article: "I sort of slapped him around," Couric admits. "I got mad at him and said, 'You can't do this to me. You have to tell me when you're going to use a word like that.' I was aggravated, there's no question about that." (http://nymag.com/news/features/34452/index7.html)

CBS has not yet disciplined Katie Couric for an act which, if the perpetrator were a male, would have probably resulted in immediate termination. This sends the message to all CBS employees that workplace violence by women is acceptable.

"MR 2007" ended yesterday with a lot of good work getting done and new faces and names involved. More details are to follow I am sure, but having just gotten off the plane back from it, I can safely say that it may well be the most successful of the three such conferences held so far, by many measures.

Thanks to everyone who attended and to all the great work that has been, is getting, and will be done for our cause.

Story here. Excerpt:

"A Clinton County woman is charged with bigamy for failing to divorce her first two husbands before marrying a third.

April R. Carter, 22, of Frankfort started divorce proceedings for her marriages to Ryan Mendoza and Brian Clendenning, towns of residence unclear, but never completed them.

She then married Brandon Carter -- town of residence also unclear -- whom she says she is still with, according to the probable cause affidavit filed by the Clinton County prosecutor's office June 20."

CNN just put out a story Paternity Fraud in Florida. Excerpt:

"There are no perfect answers," says Susan Paikin of the Center for Support of Families in Delaware. "Deadlines (on contesting Paternity) are imposed so that when families are broken -- the legal process is handled quickly."

Susan Palkin is a hypocrite. While she hems and haws about there being "no perfect answers" and that "deadlines are imposed ... (so that) the legal process is handled quickly", she has little to say regarding deadlines on establishing child support in the first place.

A parent can apply for a court order for back child support at any time up to and even after the child has grown up and left the home. Where is the deadline there? Non-existent. So, in the interest of equality, challenging paternity and child support should have no time limits either.

Article here. Excerpt:

"The angle Democratic candidates are taking is that women lack freedom. According to John Edwards, "Today, too many women are separated from the opportunities of our country because of their gender." Hillary Clinton declares that the Bush "administration has acted to deny freedom to women around the world." The Democratic Party's Web site asserts that, "George W. Bush has said many times that he stands for 'freedom for all Americans' yet his policies and the policies of the Republican Party deny equal rights to women."

So how much less free are women than men? Debates between reasonable people rage on this topic, but we seldom stop to ask women how free they actually feel. When we do so, we get a surprise: It is women, not men, who feel the most freedom in America today."

Posted for Marc A.:

Item here.

We should send letters to the editor using the feedback link in the upper right. You can also email the editorial board through the article page. Marc

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Excerpt:

"Duke is getting the short end of the stick on this one. They suffered a major blow to their reputation as a result of this ill-fated party and took the right actions, both when the allegations came to light as well as after it became clear that the young men were innocent of raping the woman.

Duke owes David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann nothing."