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Life-saving breast examinations could soon be performed by a robotic hand that combines ultrasound with an artificial sense of touch. The robotic breast examiner was devised by researchers at Michigan State University in the US. They say it will enable a medical specialist to examine women from a remote location, perhaps even from the other side of the world. "Just because you’re located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or even Botswana, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a sophisticated diagnostic or therapeutic procedure," says Carol Slomski, a surgeon at Michigan State University, who helped design the system. The robot...

Martha Burk, Margaret Sanger and the neo-Nazi by Dan Coyne Commenting upon Augusta National Golf Club's decision to admit only male members, superfeminist Martha Burk recently stated, "When the KKK comes on your side, you have officially lost all argument." Let's put the Burk Principal to the test. Burk is chairman of a radically pro-abortion outfit called the National Council of Women's Organizations. Planned Parenthood is one of the member organizations of the NCWO. In 1926, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a guest speaker at a KKK rally in Silverlake, New Jersey. Yes, it appears the...

CAMP PENDLETON – "Rockin' the Corps" was billed as a star-studded, patriotic event to thank 55,000 Marines and sailors whose San Diego units have suffered the highest casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan. But with the outdoor concert being broadcast to U.S. military installations worldwide, it felt more like a celebration of courage and perseverance. Former NBA all-star Karl Malone kicked off the evening by donating $100,000 to the Marine Corps. Then longtime rocker Ted Nugent played "The Star-Spangled Banner" a la Jimi Hendrix as some Marines stood at attention. Throughout the night, many in the crowd described the free...

Sorenstam's Placement May HingeMore on Marketing Than TalentIt would be nice to believe that Annika Sorenstam's historic placement in this week's Bank of America Colonial was just an inevitable sign of the growth and progress of women's professional golf. But behind the scenes, there may be something a lot less righteous going on.While the case is somewhat circumstantial, consider these facts: Annika Sorenstam earned a spot in this PGA Tour event because Colonial officials gave her one of a handful of special "exemptions" allowed under Tour rules. But before making her an offer, Colonial officials did the customary and prudent...

If Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson is a man of his word, his prestigious, all-male golf club will never admit a female member. In a one-on-one interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution following the completion of The Masters, Johnson said "there never will be a female member, six months after the Masters, a year, 10 years, or ever." An Augusta National spokesman backed off Johnson's statement, saying Wednesday that it "reflects the political situation and the political pressure put on the club and does not reflect on the future." The spokesman, Glenn Greenspan, said Augusta has not changed its stance that...

April 12, 2003 Masters Telecast Shuns Talk of Protest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:23 p.m. ET AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- They talked birdies and bogeys, Tiger and Phil, dogwoods and azaleas. They ran long, sappy montages about caddies and past champions, the whispering Georgia pines and the mystery of the Masters. What CBS announcers didn't do Saturday was talk about the protests taking place down the street from Augusta National, a front-burner topic here for much of the last nine months. ``The focus of CBS Sports is on golf,'' network spokeswoman Leslie Anne Wade explained. Goodness knows, the...

The Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is getting so close that the Forecaddie can pratcially smell the azaleas, but there may be more in the air than that.Something big, big, big.Here goes, the Forecaddy hears, from more than one source, that the Augusta National Golf Club will announce it's first female member April 9, the day before the start of this year's Masters 'tooniment.'The Chosen One? Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.The Man Out Front has been scratching his head trying to do the math on this one. Why would Augusta National turn it's prized...

(OMED: Certain references to national socialism in the text below were taken directly from signs carried by pseudo-feminists in public demonstrations between 1960 and 2003.) Femi-Nazi Martha Burke, National Charwoman of the National Council of Women’s Organizations said during a mid-February PBS Lehrer News Hour interview, “Television is still a media run by men.” The interview itself was about the idiotic attack on the men’s golf club that hosts the Masters tournament (April 7-13), one of the most important competitions in the sport. The female fascists of the extreme left have already frightened half of America’s males into giving up...

Is there anything connected with the Augusta National all male membership issue that could surprise us a week after the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan decided to enter the fray?How about this? Golfweek Magazine speculates this week that according to its sources, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O' Connor will be announced April 9th as Augusta National Golf Club's first female member.The item appears in 'Fore-Caddy' billed as Revelations and Speculations from the Man Out Front--a kind of golf rumour mill--and even has a green jacket superimposed on O'Connor.

The group pushing for female members at Augusta National took its battle into cyberspace Tuesday with a Web site that vilifies corporations whose chief executives belong to the golf club. ``We think it is important for women to know that some of America's largest corporations maintain a double standard when it comes to sex discrimination,'' said Martha Burk, head of the National Council of Women's Organizations. The site -- www.augustadiscriminates.org -- officially was to go online Tuesday night to coincide with Burk's appearance on HBO's ``Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.'' The main page, headlined ``Hall of Hypocrisy,'' will display logos...

The things the popular press does not know about the Augusta National Golf Club would fill a good-sized book. Let's start with only the most recent, Secretary of the Treasury designate John Snow's resignation of his membership from the club. Here's the mainstream, generally liberal, spin on that resignation, from a December 10 USA Today editorial: "As a private club, Augusta can be as pigheaded as it wants. But that doesn't erase or excuse its shameful bias (against having women as members). Snow wasn't sensitive enough as a corporate chief to take a stand against it. But he was smooth...

If I may be so bold as to promote one of my own pieces here, go to my "Open Letter to William 'Hootie' Johnson" and see why I am convinced this issue has become such a big deal. More importantly, I urge those in agreement with what I've written to find ways, both on our own, and together, to take Hootie Johnson's example and DUPLICATE it in our own lives. The enemy realizes that this is a potential momentum-stopper for them and momentum-builder for us, so let us not blow this opportunity! Let's not just sit around rooting for Hootie,...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times said Wednesday two sports columns about Augusta National Golf Club's men-only membership policy were killed because they failed to meet newsroom standards, not because they disagreed with the stance taken by the newspaper's editorial page.</p>

NEW YORK (AP) - The former chief executive officer of CBS became the first member of the Augusta National Golf Club to resign in protest over the club's refusal to admit a woman member, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Thomas H. Wyman, a 25-year member of Augusta National, told the Times that club chairman Hootie Johnson's position not to admit women was unacceptable and ``pigheaded.'' He estimated that as many as one quarter of the roughly 300 club members also support the admission of women.``I am not anxious to make this personal,'' Wyman told the newspaper. ``But Hootie keeps...

Should women pursue the Masters?: No, it's retro feminism Regina Gulick - For the Journal-Constitution Thursday, November 21, 2002 A Gen-X mother of two small sons, I find myself cheering for Hootie Johnson. The fight over women at Augusta National is not about access or women's rights. It's about outdated ideals in the minds of old-fashioned, liberal women. This is a war women have already won, but a victory that last century's feminist leaders refuse to accept. I can't help but wonder whether they enjoy the fight with men so much that they make up these "battles" for the fun...

Hooray for Hootie! At last we have a real man who can resist the histrionics of the pushy feminists. It's so refreshing to know that somewhere there is an American man willing to stand his ground -- on any issue -- and tell the feminists he is not going to knuckle under to their nagging, extortion, pressure tactics or media tantrums. William Johnson, known to friends as Hootie, is the president of the Augusta National Golf Club located in northeastern Georgia, which has hosted the world's most famous golf tournament, the Masters, since 1934. An outfit called the National...

Martha Burk, über-feminist leader of the National Council of Women's Organizations, sent an extortion letter to Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson on June 12 after Burk read reports about Augusta National not having women among its 300 members. "We know that Augusta National and the sponsors of the Masters do not want to be viewed as entities that tolerate discrimination against any group, including women," was one threatening line in the letter by Ms. Burk. Burk later released a purported letter by former Senator Sam Nunn that supposedly backed up her position. The letter was later found to be a...