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FIRST, THREE NEWS ITEMS:
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June 26, 2008: "An ‘outraged’ Chicago Mayor Daley this morning denounced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Washington D.C.’s handgun ban as a ‘frightening decision’ and a "return to the days of the Wild West.’"
Adding salt to the [...]

Hot on the heels of Wesley Clark saying about John McCain, “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president” (it isn’t a disqualification either), we have Democrat strategist and attorney (today’s redundancy is sponsored by Valvoline) John Aravosis writing the following about McCain:
Yes, we all [...]

 
Bill Gross, one of the most astute bond investors, around says  Obama as president could result in a federal budget deficit far higher than anything that has ever been seen before.

Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said a Barack Obama administration may produce the first $1 trillion deficit and intermediate-and long- term [...]

There were three interesting court decisions this week related to fatherhood–one bad and two good.
On the bad side, the New Jersey Supreme Court opened the door for alimony for the mistress. The court ruled that a couple does not have to live together in order for one partner to sue the other for palimony after [...]

We’ve discussed on many occasions the massive violations of men’s and fathers’ rights that occur under the guise of fighting domestic violence. Nowhere is this more true than with  restraining orders–all a woman has to do is tell a court that her husband “threatened her” or she is “in fear of him” and the court [...]

When fathers are unable to pay their child support, the government employs numerous abusive tactics against them, including seizing their driver’s licenses and passports, and even jailing them. Here’s a new one–a Tennessee law prevents some men from voting based on child support. The ACLU, to its credit, is fighting the law.
Ned Holstein, MD, MS, [...]

When fathers are unable to pay their child support, the government employs numerous abusive tactics against them, including seizing their driver’s licenses and passports, and even jailing them. Here’s a new one–a Tennessee law prevents some men from voting based on child support. The ACLU, to its credit, is fighting the law.
Ned Holstein, MD, MS, [...]

The French military has finally attacked something. Unfortunately, the country they attacked was France:
PARIS, France (AP) — A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said.
The military shooters immediately surrendered to themselves, of course.
I’m no safety expert, but [...]

Today’s column at WorldNetDaily is about this year’s election, specifically as it pertains to the makeup of the Supreme Court.
The country is just one liberal judge away from a moron majority of activist leftists who will tear the Constitution to bits — or worse. Give a read to “Constitutional toilet paper” for the scary details [...]

 
Bernard Chapin here with Volume 49 of Chapin’s Inferno called “Save the Males!” If you need to get a hold of me I’m at veritaseducation@gmail.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Save-Males-Matter-Women-Should/dp/1400065798/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214794194&sr=8-1

One of the more bizarre and unfortunate aspects of the controversy over family law in the United States is the insistence of many misguided women’s advocates that Parental Alienation does not exist. To learn more about Parental Alienation and the controversies surrounding it, see my co-authored column Protect Children from Alienation (Providence Journal, 7/8/06) or [...]

A reader recently reminded me of a great father-son story–the Derek Redmond story. According to Wikipedia:
Derek Redmond (born September 3, 1965 in Bletchley) is a retired English athlete…As a 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres runner, he won gold medals at the European, Commonwealth, and World Championships. His career highlights included a fifth place [...]

If you’re into investment markets, here’s the next great thing:
Merck & Co, Nike and General Mills are among 15 health-care and consumer products companies best positioned to profit from an effort to combat the growing obesity epidemic, Credit Suisse analysts said in a report on Thursday.
Globally, 1.8 billion people were obese or overweight in [...]

Attorney Tim Murray, a frequent commenter on my blog, has an interesting perspective on the new Supreme Court decision on child rape.
We have often discussed the problems of false allegations of molestation, particularly in the context of custody battles. Here, the Supreme Court cited this problem as one reason for declaring that the death penalty [...]

From Sumner County Teen Says She’s The Rape Victim (KWCH, 6/29/07):
A Sumner County teenager wants her identity hidden, but she wants everybody to know what’s happening to her. She’s charged with rape and criminal sodomy after a gathering with three friends.
“It was Saturday night and we were all just sitting around watching a movie, just talking [...]

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has honored Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (CROOKED) with their “Porker of the Month” award.
Coming in a close second for the “Porker of the Month” trophy was the guy who played Mini-Me in the Austin Powers (no relation) movies. Here’s why. Eeeeee!

…Racist. In my recent blog post Obama Again Bashes Fathers I wrote:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama decided to mark Father’s Day by bashing fathers, particularly black fathers. Obama said fathers have “have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.” He is pictured above during the speech…Obama put all blame for family breakdown squarely [...]

A recent letter from Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, concerning progress on family law in Illinois:
The Illinois state legislature has formed a committee to study family law reform related issues.  HR 1101 is the establishing resolution and lays out parameters related to scope of investigation and committee member assignment [...]

 
 
 
Captain Ed posts this You tube video showing Barack Obama’s statement that the D.C. gun ban was constitutional from 2/11/08,side by side with Obama’s pronouncement yesterday about how the ban was not constitutional and how he supports the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the ban.

Obama is right to the extent that his [...]

Just over eight years ago, a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas skidded off the runway at Burbank, through a metal blast wall, across a four-lane street and came to rest near a gas station.
This photo, along with the caption, serves as a stark reminder of what it was like that day:

(h/t some dude at [...]

A few months ago domestic violence defense expert John McLaughlin of Borders, McLaughlin & Associates sent me a story about teacher Gregory Abbott, whose wife apparently conspired with her boyfriend to frame him as part of a custody dispute. She and her boyfriend planted a shotgun and some marijuana in his car while he was [...]

Obama has changed his positions on the issues so many times that even the major newspapers are starting to give him grief about it. 
 

From the beginning, Barack Obama’s special appeal was his vow to remain an idealistic outsider, courageous and optimistic, and never to shift his positions for political expediency, or become captive of [...]

A host on the Fox Business Channel had on as a guest Barack Obama. During the interview, Obama was given a word association test.
The only word the interviewer didn’t throw into the mix was “Jesus.” I’m just curious if the way the media has treated Obama would have caused him to instinctively answer, “What?”
Forgive me, [...]

Ted Nugent has a fine column at Human Events on the importance of the Supreme Court’s striking down of the DC gun ban: DC Gun Ban Blown Away
In honor of the occasion, here’s the title cut from Nugent’s 1986 album, “Little Miss Dangerous,” which I’d like to dedicate — for very different reasons than Ted [...]

The woman is unhappy and guess who’s the problem?
Guess who needs to change?
Guess who needs her advice and direction in order to rise above his lowly, slovenly status?
To watch the ad, click here.
Thanks to Dave, a reader, for sending it.
To learn more about the problems with the way men and fathers are portrayed in advertising, [...]

We can add Steve Whissell to our list of heroic fathers and husbands which includes Joseph Richardson, Albert Collins, Eduard Burceag, Robert N. ‘Bobby’ Klein and James Kim. From Quebec dad sacrifices self to save children from runaway car (National Post, 6/24/08):
Father-of-five Steve Whissell sacrificed his own life to shove two of his children out [...]

 
Yesterday, I wrote of former Marxist radical  Martin Klonsky and the fact that he was blogging at Barack Obama’s official website. Well, all the attention that the blogs have focused on Klonsky has resulted in the Obama campaign throwing Klonsky under the bus and removing his blog from the website!

Yesterday, Klonsky was posting a blog [...]

5 to 4 Decision Saves Gun Rights In America
D.C. Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional and Overturned
Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right Unconnected with Militia Service, and is preserved by a single vote
Use of firearms for traditional lawful purposes such as self defense at home is a protected right
The history, precedents, scholarship and wording of the Second [...]

“Assuming the worst possible motivation in women is a big part of misogynist criticism.”
The purpose of “The Feminist Dissident” is to give feminists a chance to speak directly to my audience, and my audience to debate the issues with them in a civil manner. To read previous entries, click here. If you are a feminist [...]

This story encapsulates many of the problems with the modern domestic violence system–it’s anti-male bias, it’s insistence on holding only men accountable and sweeping female violence under the rug, and “Zero Tolerance”-style idiocy.
In this case, the woman says she was just as responsible as her ex was for the domestic violence incident, yet he’s the [...]