Category: Family Law
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To Protect Us From Ourselves
Victorian Harry Reid wants to pass a huge pork-barrel “jobs” bill that will benefit only government jobs… …to protect women from the foul, urge-driven Neanderthals they’ve shacked up with against their better natures: Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation,…
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Spreading The Madness
Kids today have it tough. Not so much on “life is difficult” front, of course; compared to life in the Depression, for kids who were going to grow up and go off to World War II and spend Christmas of 1944 in weather more or less like this sitting in foxholes in the Ardennes, kids…
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The Assault That Dare Not Speak Its Name
I don’t follow golf much; good lord, who cares? I mean, if I played, it’d be one thing – I am my family’s only male non-golfer, so far – but I don’t. And so while I know Tiger Woods is the shiznit when it comes to golfers, I can’t say as I much care. And…
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Dear Jon And Kate
To: Jon and Kate Gosselin, tiresome fake celebrities From: Mitch Berg, blissfully above it all. Re: The Lowered Bar Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gosselin, I’ve never watched Jon And Kate Plus Eight, because I think you are a couple of whores – or worse, pimps, whoring out your children to the pathetic, toothless johns that…
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Profiles In Fecklessness
There are grounds for honest disagreement on gay marriage. The disagreement centers around the definition of what “marriage” actually is; to most proponents of gay marriage, it’s just a contract, a legal agreement enforced by the state. To most opponents, marriage is a religious institution; indeed, in the exceedingly unlikely event I ever get married…
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Tell Hallmark To Wait In The Hall
Happy Father’s Day, everyone! Father’s Day is one of those holidays that I’m very ambivalent about. Not because it’s a Hallmark Holiday, per se – but much more because of the way fatherhood has been devalued in our society. At the core, of course, I have little to complain about. I grew up not only…
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Things I’m Supposed To Hate, But Don’t: Barney
I know, I know. Barney’s irritating. My apolitical friends hate Barney because of his relentless, up-beat cheeriness and, of course, the voice. My “conservative” friends – or at least some of the ones that look too hard to find political significance in life’s pettiest minutuae – detest him because of his cushy, relentlessly PC world.…
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Voir Dire Straits
I strongly disapprove of police brutality. So all I can add to the video Ed runs in this post is that the cops’ defense attorneys had better shoot for a jury of parents of teenagers.
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Joe And Jane the Plumber…
…have apparently gotten together and tubed same-sex marriage in California: A measure to once again ban gay marriage in California led Tuesday, throwing into doubt the unions of an estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who wed during the last 4 1/2 months. The Democrats won the election – but even in California, most Americans are conservatives,…
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Mah Authoritah
It’s no secret; I mix it up with a lot of the local leftybloggers. In most cases, it’s fairly good-natured stuff; it’s business, not personal. I respect those of them that can write – Jeff Rosenberg and the former members of the late New Patriot kolkhoz, among a few others; some of them return the…
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Note To Bun And Zam
Noooo, nooooo – of course our vacation plans in Omaha have nothing to do with this story. Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals — even crossing state lines to do it — and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide…Nebraska’s “safe haven” law, intended to…
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Square Bullets For The Infidels
I remember reading a book about thirty years ago – The Social History Of The Machine Gun, or something like that. It was a pseudo-academic treatise, adapted for some shred of popular market appeal, that talked about the social roots of fully-automatic weapons. In one of the first chapters, they included the plans for an…
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Depressing Inspiration
James Walsh at the Strib pays tribute to a woman who got through college, despite having been pregnant twice by ninth grade: There is something about Jennifer Banks that erases doubt. Perhaps it’s her clear and steady gaze, the way she never looks away as she talks about her past — or her future. Or…
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Bureaucrats Gone Wild!
It was almost a quarter of a century ago when an overzealous (in retrospect) county attorney, Kathleen Morris, offered an arrested sex offender a deal if he started naming names, and ended up indicting dozens people in Jordan Minnesota – a small farm town that’s since become an exurb, southwest of Minneapolis – in what…
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Dead Until Proven Innocent
In one of the funniest recent episodes of South Park, Stan’s little brother Ike’s kindergarten teacher seduces the toddler, gets caught, and, in a press conference before the trial, declares to be sorry, and that “…I am an alcoholic”. The crowd of reporters, cops and specators nod their heads, and eventually cheer the woman as…
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Weasel Words
By now, everyone’s heard about Alec Baldwin’s profane rant at his daughter via voice mail. And a good chunk of America – including some who’d claim to know better – has taken sides; Baldwin is the bad guy, according to much conventional wisdom. And of course, calling your daughter a “pig” is very, very bad…
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Insult To Injury To More Insult
A few years back, in response to the “epidemic” of “deadbeat dads”, a slew of government agencies embarked on a raft of programs to teach fathers “how to be responsible” as parents. The goal? Well, no, it wasn’t some warm ‘n fuzzy desire to make sure every kid grew up with warm memories of Dad.…
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Got A Wife And Kids In Baltimore, Jack
At first, I thought I might say “I have had days like this”. The story, about a Crookston couple skipped town leaving their kids behind, almost sounded grimly funny at first: Even before they left in September, the complaint said, food supplies had dwindled, bills had piled up and the landlord was talking about evicting…
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How To Give A Shiftless Idiot A Cheap Legal Victory
Women, in general, have an insurmountable advantage in custody trials, especially if the kids involved are younger than four years old. It’s almost impossible for a woman to lose under those circumstances, barring crack addiction (maybe) and gross moral turpitude. Especially if the fathers are famously moronic. And yet… But [Britney Spears] stayed less than…
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Your Mission For This Weekend
Update and Bump II: It’s tomorrow! Our producer on the NARN, Matt Reynolds, and his wife Amber are currently busy trying to adopt a child from Guatemala. This is not an inexpensive proposition – so they’re holding a bit of a fundraiser: Fundraising Fiesta for Hezekiah is on Feb 10th from 6-9 pm with a…
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They Eat Their Own
Brangelina attack Guydonna’s latest celebrity therapeutic adoption: Her comments follow accusations that Madonna used her fame and money to speed the adoption of one-year- old David Banda late last year. ‘Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born,’ said Miss Jolie, who has adopted two Third World youngsters of her own. ‘It’s a…