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No….I’m not referring to your personal computer here….my exclamatory title refers to Political Correctness! As we all know (and how could we not), political correctness (PC), has become the scourge of our society, every bit as vexing as the virus that attacks your personal computer, perhaps even as vile as a venereal disease that somehow, someway might find its way to invading your pristine body. PC appears to be fully entrenched in our society and its invasiveness may be just as destructive as those aforementioned viruses. Essentially, PC is attacking our freedoms and our culture. Just ask yourself the question…Do...

American Indian/Alaskan Native populations experience sexual assault and violent victimization at an alarmingly high rate. In fact, the reported rate of violent crime in Indian Country is well above all other ethnic groups and more than twice the national average. (American Indians and Crime: 1999) Although the prevalence of violent crimes has been well-documented, it has been very difficult to document the magnitude of sexual assault. However, a fairly consistent understanding has emerged among some Native Americans, service providers and national researchers that the rate of sexual assault in Indian Country is not only disturbingly high, but much higher than...

AMSTERDAM — UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers was found guilty last year of sexual harassment in a confidential report. It also accused him of unwanted sexual advances towards four other female employees, it was revealed on Friday. The United Nation's internal investigations department OIOS found Lubbers guilty of sexual intimidation and abusing his authority. Besides one official complaint, the report said allegations from several other women indicated "a pattern of sexual harassment". British newspaper The Independent has obtained a copy of the 15-page confidential report and the paper says that the report's findings will place renewed pressure on...

In "Better Answers: The Case For Judao-Christian Values," http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42234 Dennis Prager said....."There is an epic battle taking place in the world over what value system humanity will embrace. There are essentially three competitors: European secularism, American Judeo-Christianity and Islam. I have described this battle in previous columns." Under the aegis of European secularism, Americans have been lured and seduced into liberating themselves from the social constraints of America's traditional Judao-Christian moral ethics, which served as both eternally unchanging moral anchor and as the anchor to objective reality. "This much needed liberation," we were told, "is a sign of social enlightenment."...

In 1968, Pope Paul VI released Humanae Vitae, an encyclical affirming the Christian tradition’s ancient and constant moral teaching that contraception is wrong. Sadly, Humanae Vitae came as a shock to many Christians inside and outside the Catholic Church, who thought that the church was ready to accommodate herself to the modern view of marriage as primarily a relational, not procreative, institution. Indeed, in the wake of Humanae Vitae, the Catholic Church largely lost her ability to successfully convince the American laity, not to mention Christians throughout the West, of the truth and beauty of her moral teaching on matters...

A military investigation has concluded that the Air Force's top lawyer engaged in improper relationships with more than a dozen women over the last decade, two Defense Department officials familiar with the findings said. While overseeing the work of 3,200 people, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Fiscus, the Air Force judge advocate general, allegedly conducted affairs with enlisted women, officers and civilian employees in violation of military rules against fraternization, the officials said. Fiscus's pattern of behavior, one official said, was to seek to develop a relationship, but to back off quickly if his advances were rejected. Thus the few incidents...

LITTLE CROCK, Ark. — Our neediest president has out done even himself. Bill Clinton has chosen not to roll into history with his chin up and his pants zipped. He's staging an eternal hissy fit. On the first day real people not titled President or named Bono were allowed inside, I traveled to this land of delusion for an up-close peek at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library — the ex-prez's glass-and-concrete personal acid trip. Now I get it. This jumbled tribute to history, Clinton-style, is not a museum in the classic sense. It tells deliberate lies. It tries...

Earlier this week, a 29-year-old Connecticut woman, Tammy Imre was charged with one count each of sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. The charges stem from sexual assaults committed on an 8-year-old boy, who was a playmate of her 7-year-old daughter. Imre claimed that the little boy was her "boyfriend" whom she planned to marry some day and did not know how many times she had sexually assaulted him. On some occasions these assaults took place in front of the single mother’s little girl. Some in the mainline media saw no need to report the story of...

Nov 3 (Reuters) - The United States asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to explain why he cleared U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers of sexual harassment charges after a U.N. probe found the complaint valid. ... U.S. delegate Tom Repasch told the General Assembly's administrative and budgetary committee that Annan had "decided that the complaints could not be substantiated by the evidence and therefore closed the matter." "The United States would appreciate an explanation from the secretariat on this apparent contradiction," Repasch said.

At this precarious moment any distraction is a disaster for Kerry, even when it's Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment problems. Gleeful Democrats who could have been spending useful hours signing up disenfranchised minority youths to vote instead spent whole mornings poring over the Fox moralist's phone-sex fantasies. The dazzling details could be found at the Web site where mortification lives: TheSmokingGun.com.

Bill O'Reilly of "The O'Reilly Factor" fame might not know this, or even care for that matter, but the principal members of a Manhattan law firm defending him in a $60 million sexual harassment lawsuit have close ties to the Democratic Party and have been generous contributors to various candidates over the years, among them Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Nita Lowey and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano. This is mentioned here in the interest of full disclosure (call it the "O'Reisman Factor") since O'Reilly's legal team has oddly accused plaintiff Andrea Mackris' lawyer, Benedict P. Morelli, of being such an...

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Brig. Gen. Dana Born (search), the newly appointed academic dean of the Air Force Academy (search), said the institution has emerged stronger following a sexual assault scandal that led to widespread reforms and a leadership shake-up.

SCOOP OF THE DAY: Andrea Mackris, the Fox News Channel producer who is in a legal tussle with Bill O'Reilly over sexual harassment allegations, is a St. Louis native who graduated from Westminster Christian Academy in 1989. Jim Marsh, head of the small private day school, said that Mackris was editor of the Ambassador, the student newspaper, and "was very good at it." Marsh added: "She was a very good student, a very good writer."

LONDON, England (CNN) -- About one percent of adults have absolutely no interest in sex, according to a new study, and that distinction is becoming one of pride among many asexuals. It was published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sex Research and is the focus of a report in this Saturday's issue of New Scientist. Bogaert's analysis looked at responses to another study in Britain, published in 1994. That study was based on interviews of 18,000 people about their sexual practices. A 1994 survey, published by The University of Chicago Press, found that 13 percent of 3,500...

Academics Defend Pedophilia Daniel J. Flynn Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004 Are pedophiles the next campus “victim” group? A tiny but vocal group of academics are working to make the answer yes. New York University Press’s Lavender Culture calls to demolish the “archaic” notions of “the innocence of children” and “the potential harmfulness of sex.” To do this, an essayist in the text advises readers to “proselytize” to “young gay people with the message that…they should get out of their families as soon as they can.” The danger of not doing this, the author explains, is having “future generations of gay...

Sexual assault lawsuit filed against William Kennedy Smith By ABC7Chicago.com / City News Service August 25, 2004 (Chicago, IL) — A former personnel assistant to Chicago doctor William Kennedy Smith filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the nephew of the late John F. Kennedy of sexually assaulting her inside his North Side home in 1999. The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon, names Smith as the defendant and seeks in excess of $50,000. The plaintiff's attorney, Kevin O'Reilly, could not be reached for comment. In December of 1991 Smith was acquitted of rape and battery charges following a...

This November, MGM/UA will be releasing a movie based on the life of Alfred Kinsey, an "academic" who released two "studies," Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which legitimized the sexual revolution in the 1960s, and is still being used to legitimize sexually perverted behavior. Kinsey himself was a sexual pervert himself, being a homosexual, a probable pedophile, and a S&M freak. In Entertainment Weekly's fall movie preview, the movie is previewed. Liam Neeson plays Kinsey, and from the companion picture, Neeson indeed looks like Kinsey. The director and producer, Bill Condon, describes...

Peter Sprigg begins his new book on same-sex marriage, Outrage, with a paradox: Most Americans oppose it, "yet in terms of political action, the pro-family, pro-marriage majority has been strangely muted." Sprigg attributes this to a lack of intellectual ammunition and aims to remedy that deficiency with this book. He is certainly qualified to do so. Director of the Center for Marriage and Family Studies at the Family Research Council (FRC), Sprigg has also co-authored a more scholarly book published by FRC that assembles the scientific research on homosexuality. Some highlights of that research provide the factual foundation for...

MARY KAY STILL HOT FOR VILI By RICH CALDER and ERIN CALABRESE August 8, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE Infamous cradle-robbing teacher Mary Kay Letourneau says she still lusts for her former schoolboy lover after all these years, a former student of hers said yesterday. *SNIP* Letourneau, 42, whose steamy sexcapades with a then-12-year-old Vili Fualaau produced two kids, was released from prison last week after 71/2 years. *SNIP* Letourneau began her taboo affair with Fualaau in 1996 when she was his sixth-grade teacher and a married mother of four. Their tryst was so torrid that they did the dirty deed in...

As News Weekly goes to press, the NZ Labour Government has rushed legislation into Parliament which will effectively legislate for gay marriage, through what are called "civil unions". The bill was tabled in Parliament on June 21, and MPs were expected to vote on it on July 23 or July 24. The bill creates a new form of legal relationship - a registered civil union - that would apply to same-sex relationships and heterosexual couples. Running alongside the Civil Union Bill will be the Relationships (Statutory References) Bill that removes discrimination based on marital status. It amends over 1000 provisions...

Recent findings that gays can go straight radically alters the debate on gay marriage, says David van Gend. The Titanic of Gay Rights, leaving all in its wake, is about to founder on a large and immovable fact. My concern is not for the glamorous first-class passengers - the prominent doctors and judges - or for the Mardi Gras exhibitionists leering and lurching across the deck, but for the unknown homosexuals down in their lonely cabins feeling sick. These are the ones who want to stop the ship and get off. The homosexuals who do not want to be homosexual,...

Syphilis Becoming Resistant to Oral Antibiotic By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some strains of the bacterium that causes syphilis have developed a mutation that makes them resistant to Zithromax (known generically as azithromycin), doctors warn in this week's New England Journal of Medicine "This is important because an increasing number of physicians are azithromycin using for treatment of patients with syphilis and for sexual contacts," Dr. Sheila A. Lukehart, from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, told Reuters Health. The recommended treatment for syphilis is penicillin, to which there is currently no evidence of resistance. "However, penicillin injections...

To secure the continuing existence of the United States democracy against intractable religious fanaticism, whose goal is nothing less than a Muslim theocracy for all of planet Earth, it is inevitable that military conscription will again be implemented during the months following the 2004 Presidential Election. The nature of this struggle renders irrelevant the person or party who wins the election. With very rare exceptions, every male residing in the United States 18 to 26 years of age is required by the Military Selective Service Act to register with the Selective Service System, and thereby subject himself to the possibility...

<p>LAWSUIT: "Jane Doe 2" says the Rev. James Poole impregnated her as a teen.</p> <p>A Jesuit priest already facing accusations of sexual abuse now faces another lawsuit by a woman who says he molested her as a child, got her pregnant at 14 and told her to "get rid of the baby," according to the new suit filed in Nome Wednesday.</p>

Parents of some second-graders at a Mount Pleasant Area elementary school are questioning whether a 10-day ban from school is appropriate punishment for youngsters accused of sexual harassment in the classroom. The suspensions were handed to five second-grade boys at Norvelt Elementary School after four girls accused the boys of touching them inappropriately, according to parents of some of the boys. Daniel Landy, Norvelt Elementary's principal, did not return phone calls seeking comment on Thursday. Superintendent Dr. Donald Tylinski would say only that an investigation is under way. Tylinski declined further comment, citing confidentiality concerns.

‘The situation in Iraq worsens every day!’ chirp the assorted media pundits whose smartly crafted doom and gloom sells more advertising, increasing the revenues of an industry that seems more intent upon creating more fresh carrion to feed upon than objectively investigating and reporting the facts. In this work they have ample company… Take for instance the reporting of the Iranian news agency, Mehr News, whose recent story claims the US has a policy of "committing systematic sexual abuse against Iraqi civilians" and even celebrates its atrocities on the internet. In the Islamist world in the Middle-East, where grinding illiteracy...

25 Mar 2004 - YOUTH STATEMENT YOUTH STATEMENT at Cairo and Beyond: Reproductive Rights and culture, 9 March 2004 NOTE: this statement was developed before the outcome document/action points of the conference were finalized. We would like to thank UNFPA and the Dutch Ministry for Development Cooperation for inviting us, younger people. It was a great experience and we are happy to share our vision with you. The young people present at the Reproductive Rights and Culture Conference have come together to discuss the developments of the conference and we would like to share our thoughts and vision with you...

The Defense Department's senior personnel official today assured Senate Armed Services Committee members that the military would get to the bottom of allegations that scores of female service members were sexually assaulted during overseas deployments. "Sexual assault is a crime," David S.C. Chu, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, declared in his opening remarks to members of the SASC's personnel subcommittee. Chu said DoD policy prohibiting sexual assault "is clear in the law, it is clear in the regulations of the department, it is clear in the statements of the secretary of defense." He also responded to committee...

Press Release Contact: Stephen G. Brady Phone: (217) 632-5920 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 PM EDT, February 18, 2004 CATHOLIC WATCHDOG GROUP TO CONDUCT MEETING OF ALBANY CATHOLICS An international group of faithful Roman Catholics has scheduled a public meeting in Albany to discuss its ongoing investigation of the Albany Catholic Diocese. Stephen G. Brady, president of the Roman Catholic Faithful, Inc. (RCF) issued a statement on Wednesday that he will arrive in Albany from RCF’s headquarters in Petersburg, Illinois, on Saturday evening, February 21. The meeting will take place at 6:00 p.m. Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany City...

Substantial Evidence Determination based on false information by Bureau of Labor & Industries

Has anything really changed in the Catholic Church in the USA? Are bishops looking outward ("policy changes, audits, new procedures") rather than inward (the spiritual state of their soul) for solutions to problems in today's Church? Is the setting up of "committees" made up of laypeople, to investigate sexual abuse claims good for the priesthood? Can we no longer trust other priests to investigate these matters? Does not this cast a dark shadow on all priests - even the good priests who truly love the Church? The very fact that policy changes became necessary, and audits are necessary to see...

Noticing the PBS program devoted to homosexuality, In the Life, on the night of November 18, 2003, I wondered if there was a program on public broadcasting dedicated to glorifying the life of heterosexuals. Then, it came to me that next PBS should introduce a program sponsored by NAMBLA about the life of people who practice adult-child sexual relationships. And, of course, we’ll need a program about the life of people like Larry Flynt, who like to have sex with farm animals.

A decade after Michael Jackson was the focus of unproven child molestation allegations, the pop superstar is again facing a similar, equally serious situation. Investigators from the Santa Barbara County, Calif., sheriff's office pounced on Jackson's famed Neverland Ranch at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday armed with a search warrant for what the authorities said was tied to ''an ongoing criminal investigation.'' Though the sheriff's office would comment no further, Court TV cited sources claiming the search was prompted by a complaint from a 13-year-old boy, charging criminal sexual conduct. A source told this column Tuesday that the child, accompanied by at...

<p>The furor over allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger mistreated women erupted again Thursday. The governor-elect, through his spokesman, ripped Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer for what Schwarzenegger said was a breach of attorney-client privilege after Lockyer revealed the gist of conversations the two have had about the matter. Schwarzenegger also disclosed that he had decided to hire a private investigative firm to examine the allegations first published in the Los Angeles Times, and he said he had decided to do so even before Lockyer suggested it Thursday. But a spokesman said the governor-elect was now reconsidering an earlier decision to hand the results of the private probe over to Lockyer.</p>

Woman contends supervisor of community service workers demanded sex in exchange for falsifying hours By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, November 1, 2003 A woman has sued the City of Austin, contending that it was negligent in employing a park worker who is accused of coercing sex from young women assigned to work in the parks as community service for misdemeanor criminal convictions. The former employee, Freddie Urias, faces criminal charges of sexual assault, official oppression and tampering with a government record. His case is in pretrial hearings. According to the lawsuit filed in state District Court, Urias sexually assaulted...

I first read a few headlines and articles that yelled defrocked pedophile priest John Geoghan had been murdered in prison by another inmate. Details of who did it, in these first articles, were absent. Then, they started to appear. Neo-nazi. A murderer. A homophobic. A sketch of a man formed in my head, not the prettiest one. A man filled with hate for no reason. NY Daily News: "Perv priest's body was pummeled." MSNBC: "Prison inmate had ‘phobia’ toward homosexuals. " A quote appeared again and again, all over the media, saying, "he has a longstanding phobia, it appears, towards...

On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that when a woman rescinds consent during sex, the man becomes guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. Last month, Illinois became the first state to enact that principle into law. Such measures trivialize the crime of rape and encourage false accusations that, in turn, threaten the credibility of actual rape victims. The new law reads, "(c) A person who initially consents to sexual penetration or sexual conduct is not deemed to have consented to any sexual penetration or sexual conduct that occurs after he or she withdraws consent during...

It used to be said, before gays "came out," that they were in "the closet." I wish they would go back into it. The rest of us have been in "Pandora's Box ever since. Not that long ago, in kinder, gentler times, when grown adults actually kept their private business private, and fringe rebels did not get in everyone's face to make their point, what is now considered to be an alternative lifestyle" was in fact, a deviancy. The only thing that has changed is that in 1973, (the same notorious year that also gave us Roe vs. Wade) the...

It used to be said, before gays "came out," that they were in "the closet." I wish they would go back into it. The rest of us have been in "Pandora's Box ever since. Not that long ago, in kinder, gentler times, when grown adults actually kept their private business private, and fringe rebels did not get in everyone's face to make their point, what is now considered to be an alternative lifestyle" was in fact, a deviancy. The only thing that has changed is that in 1973, (the same notorious year that also gave us Roe vs. Wade) the...

BOULDER - A teenager stuck to her story Thursday in Boulder County Court that she was molested by a Lafayette police officer. But the 17-year-old conceded under questioning by the officer's lawyer that she has a lengthy record of minor offenses and does not always tell the truth. The officer, eight-year veteran Gardner Mendenhall, is charged with sexual assault by a person in a position of authority, a felony with a maximum sentence of life in prison. He also is charged with official misconduct, a misdemeanor. Mendenhall denies the charges. The preliminary hearing Thursday was to determine whether evidence is...

TENNESSEE — Gov. Phil Bredesen signed a bill in May that will require the state's public universities and colleges to make sex and violent crime information available. Under the amendment to the Tennessee open-records law, sponsored by Rep. Harry Brooks, R-Knoxville, and Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, public schools must release the names of students who are disciplined for committing a violent crime or sex offense, along with the sanction imposed on them. This information used to be considered student education records, which are exempt from disclosure under the state law. The law now goes a step beyond federal law by...

State and local officials disagree on the accuracy of a national study estimating that one Utah woman in five has been raped. However, most of them do agree that the situation bears a closer look. And a new multidisciplinary state council plans on taking one. The Utah Sexual Violence Council is made up of representatives from victim advocates and from organizations including the Department of Health, the Department of Corrections, the Utah Sentencing Commission and the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault. "It's just in its infancy," said Ned Searle, domestic violence state coordinator. "We're having the first real meetings in...

CNSNews.com) - After a heated debate, the U.N. Human Rights Commission dropped discussion of a resolution to add "sexual orientation" to the U.N.'s definition of discrimination. But family groups warn that supporters of the issue, which include most European countries and Canada, will lobby harder to pass the resolution when it comes up for a vote again next year. "This issue never goes away," said Douglas Sylva, director of research at the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute in New York, which opposed the resolution. Brazil and 19 other nations co-sponsored a resolution calling on member states "to promote and...

There was a face behind the paperwork of the rape case. And Lisa Ballas wanted Gen. S. Taco Gilbert, commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy, to see that face clearly across his large black office table. It was April 8, 2002, Ballas recalled, and she had asked to talk with him about court-martialing her alleged attacker, a senior cadet who she said raped her at a party. After only a couple of minutes, however, her hopes evaporated. "Any other man would have done the same that night," Gilbert told her, she said. "You need to take responsibility for...

J. P. Morgan Chase has dismissed two investment bankers, one of whom was a managing director, after a fellow banker complained that they had sexually accosted a woman who worked with them, current and former employees at the company said this week. The two bankers who were dismissed, Palden Gyuimed Namgyal and Norman Gretzinger, made unwanted and inappropriate advances toward the woman in a bar, these people said. When the woman, a less-senior investment banker at J. P. Morgan, protested, another high-ranking investment banker who was there intervened, they said. He later reported the incident to the firm's personnel department,...

When serial child molester Brian DeVries is released somewhere in San Jose, every move he makes will be tracked by a Global Positioning System device he will wear as an electronic tamper-proof ankle bracelet and carry like a lunchbox. Authorities say if he walked toward an elementary school playground, the portable tracking device -- about the size of two VHS tapes sandwiched together -- would sound a silent electronic alarm sent through a satellite in space. The warning -- usually sent as a text message to a pager -- can be transmitted from the satellite to three places: the Florida...

Sex row over tie rule A man who was ordered to wear a shirt and tie at work is a victim of sexual discrimination, an employment tribunal has been told. A dress code brought in by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stipulated that men working in Jobcentre Plus offices had to wear a collar and tie to work - but set no similar stipulation for women. Now Matthew Thompson, an administrative assistant at Jobcentre Plus in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has taken a test case against the DWP complaining of sexual discrimination. Women in his office were allowed to...

<p>MANSFIELD - Four North DeSoto High School boys basketball players are expected to be suspended from school as DeSoto sheriff's investigators continue their probe into a complaint of sexual misconduct lodged by a girls basketball player.</p> <p>The 16-year-old girl alleges she was forced to perform oral sex on the males - two 17-year-olds, one 18-year-old and one 19-year-old - while returning on a school bus Friday night from basketball games in Springhill.</p>

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<p>AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A lawyer is trying to find out whether the state paid for a convicted rapist to receive a penile implant the last time he was imprisoned on sexual assault charges.</p> <p>M. Michaela Murphy said information from the investigation into the assault on her client led her to believe Michael Edward Commeau received the implant, a device that allows men with erectile dysfunction to have an erection.</p>