Story here. Excerpt:

'An appellate court said Maryland's rape law is clear -- no doesn't mean no when it follows a yes and intercourse has begun.

The decision startled activists who believe people have the right to say no at any time. Jennifer Pollitt Hill of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault called the law "insulting and dangerous."'

Sacks writes:

"In a recent column in Monitor on Psychology (10/9/06), Dr. Gerald P. Koocher, the president of the American Psychological Association, acknowledges the truth about domestic violence--that women are just as likely to physically attack their male partners as vice versa. In Psychological science is not politically correct Koocher writes.."

Here is the link given in the newsletter:
Psychological science is not politically correct.

This seems to be a good start, to forcing feminist-leaning/female psychotherapists (which is most of them) to quit pretending men are only infrequent victims, and treating their "patients" accordingly!

Article here.

'A new study finds that polyps linked to colon cancer are 73 percent more common in men than in women, leading researchers to suggest that colorectal cancer screening guidelines be changed.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The killings began in San Diego County in December 1965 with the death of Sherry Scott, who was 11 days old, and continued a month later with her sister, Carla Scott, who was 1, Poma said. Both were deemed natural deaths.

"She kind of wanted to deal with it," he said. "She seemed surprised and remorseful."'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A woman who previously served prison time for second-degree murder was arrested Wednesday and accused of setting a blaze that killed six people and gutted much of a historic brick building in Reno's downtown casino district."

"About 30 people were injured, some of them after they leaped out the windows of the three-story building, which was primarily a residential hotel."

Story here. He was found guilty. I imagine though that there could be an appeal. This is another one to watch. Excerpt:

'During the trial, Adem testified he never circumcised his daughter or asked anyone else to do so. He said he grew up in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and considers the practice more prevalent in rural areas.

Adem's attorney acknowledged that the girl had been cut, but implied that the family of the girl's mother, who immigrated from South Africa, may have been responsible. The Adems divorced three years ago, and attorney Mark Hill suggested that the couple's daughter was coached to testify against her father by her mother, who has full custody of the child.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman accused of duct-taping her two children together and leaving them home alone has been charged with child abuse, the sheriff's office said.

Agla Nadia Vincent, 25, was arrested Monday following a seven-month investigation into whether she left her two boys, then aged 2 and 3, taped to each other while she went to work, said Lt. Annie Smith of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.'

This is disturbing for a lot of reasons. Lowered "T" in men is associated with an increased risk for various health problems including susceptibility to cancer, infertility, and depression. Excerpt:

'While a man's testosterone level will fall steadily as he ages, the researchers observed a speedier decline in average testosterone levels than would have been expected with aging alone.

They hypothesized that the rising prevalence of obesity as well as the sharp decline in cigarette smoking might help explain their findings, given that testosterone levels are lower among overweight people and smoking increases testosterone levels. But these factors accounted for only a small percentage of the observed difference.

It's likely that some sort of environmental exposure is responsible for the testosterone decline, Travison said, although he said attempting to explain what this might be based on the current findings would be "pure conjecture."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A new state law allows men a way out of child-support payments when they can prove that they are not the child's biological father.

Last year, 30 percent of the 15,495 men targeted as possible fathers in paternity proceedings turned out not to be.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'More city schoolgirls are landing in juvenile detention now than a decade ago - while crime among boys is dropping, a new report reveals. Last year, 1,037 girls younger than 16 entered city detention facilities, up from 772 in 1992, according to the report by the Citizens' Committee for Children.'

Well, it has happened again thank God!
DNA testing cleared this man of the politicized crime of rape.

What makes this rescue notable is that the judge who released him, a female judge no less, apologized to the victim and said it made her sick to her stomach thinking about the years he spent incarcerated over a crime he didn't commit! However, the article doesn't say anything about monetary compensation or the need for stricter evidence guidelines for rape.

Yes, the BBC has chosen to give a headline on their main website entitled "Fewer women seek student places". Reading the article reveals the decrease to be about 0.5% (yes really) but that female applicants outnumber male applicants by 55% to 45%. The BBC has recently been exposed as internally admitting that they "may have taken political correctness too far". This article is living proof. You couldn't make it up.

Story here. Excerpt:

'DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) -- The prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case has heard the criticism from experts and armchair lawyers, and said Monday he is comfortable with nearly all the decisions he has made and confident about taking the case to trial.
...
In the early days of the case, Nifong granted numerous newspaper and TV interviews, at one point calling the players "hooligans" and declaring that DNA would identify the guilty. DNA failed to connect the players to the accuser.
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Roberts said she was unable to get the accuser to leave her car, and pushed on the woman's arm and leg to try to force her out. Roberts quoted the accuser as saying: "Go ahead, go ahead. Put marks on me. Go ahead. That's what I want. Go ahead."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Scientists are developing a male contraceptive drug which stops the development process of sperm.

Tests on rats show blocking connections to cells which "nurture" developing sperm makes the animals infertile.

The US and Italian researchers say they used relatively low doses of the molecule and found no obvious side effects, and the effect was reversible.'

A few weeks ago, the Governor-General of Canada, Michelle Jean, attended a violence against women fund-raiser in Montreal. After the function, she was met by a number of fathers' rights protesters outside. She listened to their views, thanked them, and left.

Here are her reflections on that meeting. Notice how she paints the views of these fathers in comparison to how she paints the views of battered women's advocates? We can send her a letter through the appropriate channels mentioned on her site, we can respond to the blog entry in the comments section, or we can start a discussion on her forums. The important thing is we have to be heard.