Article here. Excerpt:

'The nonsensical “war on women” charge against Republicans has gone too far and may have backfired. An Associated Press-GfK Group poll last week found that women, long Obama’s strongest asset in his re-election bid, have come to favor Republican Mitt Romney 49 percent to 45 percent. If true, it may prove disastrous for President Barack Obama. An ABC/Washington Post daily tracking poll had conflicting results, indicating Obama may still have a commanding lead with women.

Regardless, all reliable data indicate a decline in his support among women.

In a pathetic effort to jump start the “war on women,” the Obama for America campaign this week released the most tasteless and insulting ad of the election season, and that’s saying something.
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Most American women are perfectly capable of managing their reproductive choices without assistance from the president. Most have a vast assortment of interests and concerns beyond their sex lives, but we seldom hear that from the president.

Video here. Transcript:

'PIERS MORGAN, HOST: You called me in the break a sexist, misogynist pig.

ANN COULTER: Yes.

MORGAN: Can you explain why?

COULTER: Yes.

MORGAN: What have I said that's been remotely sexist.

COULTER: “Calm down.” Oh, it is the conservative female obligation to…

MORGAN: You were hyperventilating.

COULTER: ..I'm not hyperventilating. I'm disagreeing with you, which apparently is insulting your teeny, tiny, male ego. It is the most insulting, condescending, sexist thing to say to a female - generally conservative - who disagrees with you. No, it's my obligation to back down and accept your point, and if I don't, “You're not being calm...'

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'Since the 1980s, women have largely contributed to the jump in college enrollment, a trend also witnessed at ISU. But some of ISU faculty members wonder if the men are being left behind.

Associate professor of history Daniel Clark said while the surge in college female enrollment is positive, it sheds light on a troubling phenomena in male academia: less men are going to college.

“The college degree is not a worthwhile possibility to men,” he said, adding that college was always an option for men, but never instilled by American culture to be a necessity.”

Lisa Phillips, assistant professor of history, acknowledged that “there wasn’t enough research” on the behavioral studies, but agreed with Clark.

“There’s a gap that’s developed academically,” Phillips said. “Studiousness has become gendered.”'

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'Why are fewer men choosing to work? For that, we turn to the Census Bureau's 2012 Statistical Abstract. The participation rate is lower for single men than for married men, and marriage rates in the US have been falling for decades, so we'd expect a modest decline from that. Looking by age bucket, it's been pretty steady for single and married men for everyone over the age of 25 since the start of the Great Recession.

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'President Barack Obama is straining to woo women voters to support him for reelection in spite of his sketchy record when it comes to issues affecting females.

Obama was asked during this week’s debate how he would “rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?”

The president claimed to have “fixed” that problem with the first bill he signed into law – the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
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Then there’s Julia, the fictitious character created by the Obama campaign that leads voters though an informational graphic on everything Obama has done to help women.

Julia’s life begins with the head start program for all children, that actually began under former President Lyndon Johnson, to Pell grants, also created by Johnson, to Obamacare, that will cost thousands of dollars more each year in insurance premiums, but includes “free” birth control.

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'GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa (AP) — A trial is set for next year in an Iowa man's paternity fraud lawsuit against his former girlfriend.

Joseph Dier, of Grundy Center, seeks to recover money he spent supporting a daughter born in 2009 who turned out not to be his. Dier claims Cassandra Jo Peters enticed him into believing he was the father to get money and that he supported them for more than two years.'

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'NEW ORLEANS — Pediatricians gathered here for the American Academy of Pediatrics convention were greeted by protesters urging the medical group to rethink its position on an issue that makes most people squirm: the circumcision of newborn boys.

And although the American Academy of Pediatrics doesn’t recommend routine removal of infants’ foreskins — that has been its stance since 1999 — its report, released two months ago, does cite literature saying that the procedure can prevent urinary-tract infections, cancer of the penis and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

Such benefits, the report says, justify its coverage by private insurance and Medicaid. But opponents, who call themselves “intactivists,” go beyond mere opposition to the circumcision of healthy infants.

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'A woman needed to leave her abusive home in Kansas City earlier this year, but didn’t want to leave her dog behind.

She couldn’t find a domestic violence shelter that accepted pets, so she lived on the streets.

That’s where she likely would have remained, if not for the opening of a pet shelter at the Rose Brooks shelter four months ago. Since then, she and many other women have been able to escape abusers without losing their pets.

Rose Brooks is the only domestic violence shelter in the region — and among just a few across the country — to have a stand-alone pet shelter. It even hired a pet shelter advocate to oversee operations.

The shelter, called Paws Place, has four large “state-of-the art” kennels built to lower stress and prevent the spread of disease. Each kennel, which is like a small room, is filled with homemade pillows, cozy blankets and chewy toys.'

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'As Germany fails to close the gender gap in the workplace, and a debate continues about whether quotas should be introduced to improve the mix of people working at the top levels of industry in the country, the figures generally show men way ahead of women.

Yet Schröder hosted a conference in Berlin on Wednesday to talk about what could be done to help men. She told how the share of kindergarten teachers who are male in Germany had risen from 2.4 to 2.9 percent. Yet she was put to shame by the 10 percent of Norwegian kindergarten teachers who are men.

Men are stuck in clichéd roles just as women are, she said – and pointed to the “Boys’ Day” she has set up to encourage boys to go and spend a day in a traditionally female work place.

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'The Army officer who came to my office was worried. His relationship with his ex-wife, the mother of his child, was rocky to say the least. He had his orders deploying him to Afghanistan for at least a year. Was there anything he could do to make sure he could stay in touch with his son?

Because of Fathers and Families of Ohio’s work on military custody issues, Ohio is one of 36 states protecting our service members’ custody. As a result, the Ohio legislature and Governor John Kasich created a series of laws to protect Ohio service members deployed and on active duty in 2011. These laws effectively address the four biggest problems deployed service members face when trying to stay in contact with their children:'

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'Modern academia has gone astray and identity studies programs are in large part the culprit, argues author and poet Bruce Bawer in his new book ”The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind.”

“Identity studies sum up everything that’s wrong with the humanities today,” Bawer told The Daily Caller. “They’re about nothing other than group identity, group oppression, and group grievance. Instead of engaging in objective scholarly study of, say, black American history or women’s literature, these departments are boosters for everything having to do with the group in question. It’s all slogans. Kids don’t learn anything other than to think of themselves as having been wronged by capitalism, by the West, by America, by white men.”

Bawer says that this has consequences beyond the classroom.

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'CINCINNATI – Two Ohio nurses were sentenced to probation on Wednesday in the malnutrition death of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died, avoiding a sentence of up to one-and-a-half years in prison.

Mary Kilby of Miamisburg and Kathryn Williams of Englewood were sentenced to up to five years of probation in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in Dayton on Wednesday stemming from the March 1, 2011, death of Makayla Norman.

Authorities say the teen had numerous bed sores and was living in filthy conditions when she died from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by cerebral palsy in what a coroner said at the time was the "worst malnourished child" his office had ever seen.'

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'Ted Bunch, co-founder of A CALL TO MEN, said, "We encourage and invite men to become the solution to preventing domestic violence by raising their voices and awareness through Your Voice Counts. Together, we can all create a better world for our daughters, our sons, our sisters, our mothers and ultimately ourselves."

Domestic violence is one of the most critical public health issues for women, resulting in serious, long-term health impacts and devastating effects on children and families. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 7 men in the U.S. have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetimes.

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'Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), a nonprofit victim-advocacy organization, is asking colleges to crack down on false accusations of sexual assault, citing a growing number of false claims.

In a letter to the president of the University of Montana, a campus that had a recent sexual assault case involving an athlete, SAVE addressed the problem of false claims.

According to the letter, ”during the past year, false-rape cases have been reported at the University of North Dakota, Yale University, University of Connecticut, University of North Florida, Xavier University and elsewhere.”
SAVE tries to broaden its argument by saying all false claims, not just claims of sexual crimes, are occurring, citing an article from the University of Northern Florida’s Spinnaker.

According to the article, police are now giving students citations for false claims to combat the increasing occurrence.

Article here. Quite a price to pay for such "bliss". I imagine another factor is that they probably don't see one another too much, an actor's schedule often being what it is. After all, how long can anyone, male or female, live under such circumstances and not eventually want to run like hell in the other direction? Excerpt:

'So what is the secret to their relationship's longevity? According to the actor, it's a two-step process: "Do whatever my wife says, and keep my mouth shut!" he told Wonderwall at the Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, "Flight."'

Imagine if a woman said that her 'secret to marital success' were to keep her mouth shut and do everything her husband told her to do? Can you just imagine the reaction? She'd be drummed out of the Los Angeles-Hollywood party circuit, labelled a traitor to her own sex and a bad example to girls and women everywhere! So what is Mr. Washington, then?