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."

This is exactly the type of posts that we don't need being hummed by feminists. The more these type of outdated posts continue the more it damages the image of men and the important role they play.

Release here. Excerpt:

"The United Nations Population Fund has chosen "Men as Partners in Maternal Health" as the theme of World Population Day.

UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid says, "Men are equal partners in making the new life that the women will deliver." She added, "Experience shows that male involvement can make a substantial difference when it comes to preserving the health and lives of women and children."

Cheers to promoting men and women working as equal partners and looking after each other's health!

But you have to wonder... When the UN will make calls on women to take "responsibility" for men's health? When will they call on women to let kids can see their dads who make that "substantial difference"?

I couldn't help notice that they said "male involvement" as opposed to "fathers' involvement". Maybe I'm cynical, but I think those words were carefully chosen.

It's great they are taking this problem seriously. I just wish they would take MGM just as seriously, which instead of receiving widespread condemnation is in fact covered by most health insurance plans.

Story here. Excerpt:

'LONDON - Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on Wednesday will highlight that the practice is a crime here.

To make their point, police are offering a $40,000 reward for information leading to Britain's first prosecution for female genital mutilation, Detective Chief Superintendent Alastair Jeffrey said.

In Britain, the problem mostly involves first-generation immigrants from Africa and the Middle East.

Article here. Excerpt:

'U.S. Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind., recently introduced the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007, which they say will address our "national epidemic of absentee fathers."

"Most "deadbeat dads" are low-income men who are unable to meet the demands of the child support system, because of their employment problems. Stepping up already draconian enforcement only makes it more difficult for them to play a meaningful role in their children's lives.'