Article here. Excerpt:

'Fifty years ago this month, Democrats made a historic mistake.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among African-Americans. He argued presciently and powerfully that the rise of single-parent households would make poverty more intractable.

“The fundamental problem,” Moynihan wrote, is family breakdown. In a follow-up, he explained: “From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families … never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos.”

Liberals brutally denounced Moynihan as a racist. He himself had grown up in a single-mother household and worked as a shoeshine boy at the corner of Broadway and 43rd Street in Manhattan, yet he was accused of being aloof and patronizing, and of “blaming the victim.”
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The liberal denunciations of Moynihan were terribly unfair. In fact, Moynihan emphasized that slavery, discrimination and “three centuries of injustice” had devastated the black family. He favored job and education programs to help buttress the family.

But the scathing commentary led President Lyndon Johnson to distance himself from the Moynihan report. Scholars, fearful of being accused of racism, mostly avoided studying family structure and poverty.
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'Bradshaw met the woman at Hair of the Dog, where he was working as a server, in late July. The Russian-sounding woman was flirtatious, he said. When his shift ended at 5 p.m., they shot a few games of pool at The Honest Pint and she had one drink.

Two days later, the woman told police that Bradshaw took her back to his apartment the night they met, pretended to be a Marine and brutally raped her.

He says that's not what happened.

"I think she just has lots of issues and I just happened to be the scapegoat that was there," Bradshaw said.

Nonetheless, Bradshaw was arrested and charged with rape, kidnapping, assault and aggravated assault.
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Bradshaw eventually made bond and got out of jail. But when word of his arrest got back to Idaho, where he was on parole from a grand theft conviction, he ended up back in the Hamilton County Jail for violating his parole.

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'Any technical industry is bound to be at least somewhat male-dominated. Our society has unfortunately not yet fully embraced the fact that men and women can be equally talented when it comes to technical careers. SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing, a.k.a. pay-per-click advertising on search engines) are certainly no exception. In fact, it seems as if these are some of the more intensely male-dominated sectors of the digital marketing industry to work in.

As a woman who has created a very successful career in the search industry, I find this particularly disappointing. I truly believe that women have every every bit of likelihood to be just as good at, if not better than, any given male counterpart in the same line of work, especially when it comes to SEO and SEM. Some reasons why they may be even better in this line of work include:

• Ability to multitask. Women are very accustomed to juggling several different types of responsibilities. Being able to keep many different types of tasks moving forward concurrently is a huge asset to an SEO team.
• Patience. Many women have raised or are raising children, and we’re all biologically programmed to be able to do so. There is no greater need for patience than that! And many aspects of search, especially organic optimization, require patience. SEO is a long term marketing strategy that does not provide instant results, and making changes to test theories does not yield immediate feedback. Being a patient strategist and being able to foster patience in clients and stakeholders is an absolute necessity in this field.
  

This is a MetLife ad aired in Hong Kong.  It may well be the most touching filmed sequence (nevermind ad) involving a dad and his child ever made.  Trigger warning:  Some of you may start crying while watching it, so if you're at work, you might want to wait 'til you're home.  Yes, it's that good.  And to place it in context, the HK economy is unusually stable and resilient, but not miraculous.  Its unemployment rate at the end of 2010 was 4% with underemployment at 1.8%.  The dad in this ad appears to fall into that 1.8%.  Face to the figure changes things a bit, yes?  If you want to express appreciation or anything else to ML-HK, the contact form is here.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A group of men in white suits with fake blood on their crotch areas gathered in Fort Worth to protest male circumcision Sunday.

About 30 members and supporters of Bloodstained Men, a nonprofit group based in California that travels the country in protest of male circumcision, held signs that read, “Foreskin is not a birth defect.” They were at Hulen Street and Interstate 30.

The group was founded in 2012 by a man who legally changed his name to Brother K in 1986 to protest his own circumcision at birth.

“Our founding fathers were not circumcised,” Brother K said Sunday.'

Article here. Excerpt starts on p. 3:

'ACTA has consistently warned that when a college must deal with grave and emotionally charged issues— and surely sexual assault is such an is- sue—it is due process and the principle of innocence until guilt is established that alone can ensure justice. Many on cam- pus and in political leadership feel better by crying for swift, stern punishments, but rapid, bungled investigations often mean that the guilty walk free and the innocent are punished. Unless we want to see vigilante-style justice, we need to rely on the legal system to deal with crime. The recent events at University of Virginia offer a case in point.

Article here.  Excerpt:

'At a panel Thursday discussing campus sexual assault and due process, the general counsel for Georgetown University lamented the constantly changing rules being forced on colleges and universities by Congress and the Obama administration.

"Part of what is hard, honestly, as an institution, is the playing field changes with every OCR resolution," Lisa Brown, who is also the university's vice president, said at a panel put together by the American Constitution Society. "You implement the 'Dear Colleague' letter, then you have the [Violence Against Women Act] reauthorization, then you have [Office for Civil Rights'] Q&A and then you have the White House task force report and you have all these resolution agreements."

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'Nancy Gertner's feminist bona fides can hardly be questioned. A college friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gertner is well known for her staunch defense of women in court.

She has won prestigious awards for her women's advocacy, and called her memoirs In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate. A liberal in good standing, she was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Clinton at the recommendation of Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

So what made such a staunch feminist advocate think twice about the current climate revolving around sexual assault on college campuses? It happened when her law firm took the case of a young man Gertner believed to be wrongly accused of rape even though a grand jury indicted him. In the case Gertner described, the man was accused 10 months after the encounter by a woman whose story constantly changed and was contradicted by witnesses.

Article here.  Excerpt:

'Alexandra Brodsky, a Yale Law Student and well-known campus activist who also edits the feminist website Feministing.com, said during a panel Thursday that some who are raped don't immediately realize it.

Brodsky claimed that just because a woman didn't immediately report a sexual assault doesn't mean she's lying.

"Often schools have time limits because there's this idea that if you were raped you would know it immediately, even though survivors' experiences make clear that that's not true," she said. "That often people need some time to reflect and feel comfortable speaking out."

She also suggested that campus sexual assault cases should not be turned over to the police.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'The costs to schools of dealing with allegations of date rapes and other campus sexual assaults, which may have already topped 100 million dollars, could skyrocket under plans announced this morning to sue nor only colleges, but also key academic administrators, for violating the constitutional rights of accused students.

The plans – and an explanation about how and why conducting expulsion hearings which do not permit accused students to cross examine accusers and others violates their right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution – were revealed by public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

The controversial professor, “The Man Behind the Ban on Cigarette Commercials,” and “a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars,” has also been called an “Entrepreneur of Litigation, [and] a Trial Lawyer’s Trial Lawyer.”

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'A major humanitarian group has just come out with a lesson plan for high school students on sexism in video games. It is full of propaganda, vilifies gaming and gamers, and is likely to discourage young women from playing. Does this matter, or is it all just a game? AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers explains.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If two people are equally unable to give consent, but have sex anyway, should either be charged with a crime? It's a question that many college administrators wrestle with when drugs and alcohol are factors in sexual assault disputes. The verdict often seems to be that male students are uniquely responsible for ascertaining that their sexual partners are in a state of mind to consent, even when the female is the initiator and both are intoxicated.

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'Although parenthood isn’t in the immediate horizon of most traditional students, junior philosophy major Dave Jonathan is has been confronting issues of ethics, terminology and choice, taking words right from the mouth’s  of babes.

“(Male) circumcision is just not something that is really talked about,” Jonathan said.

According to Jonathan, several contradictory viewpoints frame the common knowledge surrounding male circumcision,  creating a social environment where parents often decide whether or not to circumcise depending on outdated scientific studies or cultural biases.'

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'First, why is "housework" consistently defined by Sandberg and Grant as washing the dishes and doing the laundry? What about shoveling the snow off the driveway, changing a tire on the car, assembling the Ikea furniture or repairing that leaky faucet and the cabinet door that came off the hinges? In other words, the tough outdoor and mechanical work that husbands regularly do for their wives and families? That doesn't seem to count as far as Sandberg and Grant are concerned. They're perfectly happy to hector husbands to take over the "women's work" around the house, but they don't even suggest to wives that they take over the "men's work."

Second, that Gager-Scott study cited by Sandberg and Grant doesn't actually seem to say that husbands who fold the clean clothes fresh out of the drier get more sex than husbands who just open a beer. Its conclusions seem to go more toward dispelling the myth that people who work hard don't have time for sex.

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'Classrooms at Seattle University had a new rule on Saturday: No Boys Allowed.

That's because it's the annual Expanding Your Horizons program, bringing together 500 middle school girls from Washington State to learn about science, math and engineering.

The girls rotated through workshops focusing on veterinary medicine, infectious diseases and robotics, to name a few.

"We're not trying to exclude boys," said Jen Sorensen, the program's organizer and chemistry professor at Seattle University. "We're trying to provide an opportunity for girls who might not even realize these career opportunities are available to them."'