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BIRTHS TO UNMARRIED MOTHERS ARE at a record high in the United States--almost 1.5 million in 2004 alone, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. While the rising trend is of long standing, one novel factor driving up childbearing outside marriage is the growing popularity of single motherhood by donor insemination. The incidence of this "assisted reproduction," as it is called, has more than doubled in the last decade.Most public discussion of donor insemination for single women has been carried on in a neutral, positive, or breathlessly celebratory tone. Isn't it great, the thinking seems to be, that these...

Wiccan boy booted for wearing lipstick Student claiming discrimination, violation of free-expression right Posted: April 14, 20052:53 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com James Herndon, a practicing Wiccan, plans to return to class with makeup, (photo: San Bernadino Sun) A California high-school student who practices Wiccan beliefs says his rights have been violated after being suspended this week for wearing lipstick and makeup. "If I can't wear makeup, then the girls or the staff can't wear makeup either," 16-year-old James Herndon told the San Bernadino Sun, believing his constitutional right to free expression is being violated. He says the cosmetics help him express...

The big picture here at FR is that Kerry is a loser, and Bush is a winner, and we like it that way. We ZOT trolls and clear up misunderstandings (e.g., Hitler was a bona fide leftist). We fight here at FR, and fight well. But there is one fight most of us Dads here do not fight; at least we don't fight it overtly. We permit liberal orphans to remain orphans. When they cry 'Who's your Daddy?', they don't cry out for you, but for the Dad they never had. Curing someone of the deception of liberalism is not...

He is the man who murdered her mother, but an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl summoned the courage yesterday to confront the killer in court. "My mommy was a loving person," little Raashida Lops told Berthal Beaubrum just before he was sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison. "She didn't deserve this," she added. "My mommy always said a man that hits a woman is not a man. Berthal Beaubrum is not a man; he is a coward and I hope he dies in jail." Beaubrum, 38, pleaded guilty to strangling girlfriend Marjorie Lops on Sept. 4, 2001, at his Brooklyn apartment and...

The Death of Horatio Alger by PAUL KRUGMAN [from the January 5, 2004 issue] The other day I found myself reading a leftist rag that made outrageous claims about America. It said that we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor, no matter how hard they work; in which sons are much more likely to inherit the socioeconomic status of their father than they were a generation ago. The name of the leftist rag? Business Week, which published an article titled "Waking Up From the American Dream." The article summarizes recent research showing that social...

85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers - all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households. This seems to indicate that the problems children encounter are not related to single-parent households, but are related specifically to single-mother-headed households. So, should we blame the mothers or the fathers? Perhaps, neither. There is no question that father-absence has reached epidemic proportions. According to Wade Horn of the National Fatherhood Initiative, we must reverse the trend in 7 -...