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North American Report/Fatherhood At-Home Dads Gather and Bond by Kristyn Komarnicki in Des Plaines, Illinois At a November 21 convention in suburban Chicago, 100 American men gathered to network, listen to experts, and exchange strategies for improving job performance. But any resemblance to corporate America ended there. Dress was casual, the atmosphere noncompetitive, and topics included ways to support working spouses, tips on defusing a two-year-old's temper tantrums, and the desire to see more diaper-changing tables installed in men's restrooms. Giving voice to the growing ranks of men engaged in full-time fatherhood, the third annual At-Home Dads Convention in Des...

When Eric and Jody courted during graduate school, they assumed that when the time came to raise a family, Eric would work and Jody would stay home with the kids. Six years later, things looked different. "I liked my job, but Jody loved hers," says Eric. "Jody made lots more money than I ever could have. It became clear to each of us that she should work and I should stay home. We came to this decision through a lot of prayer and by discussing it with our church friends ad nauseum."Three children later, Eric is passionate about being a...

Christina Hoff Sommers wrote a book several years ago entitled Who Stole Feminism? in which a former feminist of the 1960s variety explores just was happened to a movement that had general public support during through the early 1970s. In this book, she explores the errors and the outright lies of modern feminists. Although a wonderful book, the premise that feminism was "stolen" is not quite right. It was murdered, and the crime took place several decades earlier.That movement which we call feminism began in the 1840s and it was intimately intertwined with several other movements, all of which were...

Have you ever heard of the National Congress of Mothers? Until recently I didn’t know about them myself and I’ve spent a lot of time studying women’s organizations. It so happens that the NCM was actually the biggest women’s lobby in American history. Founded during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, it had 190,000 members by 1920 and over one million by 1930. The National Organization for Women, even in its heyday, could never claim such numbers. I learned about the National Congress of Mothers in a short but highly informative book, There’s No Place Like Work by Brian C. Robertson....

The Feminists Are Coming! The Feminists Are Coming! Oops, They're Gone. July 15, 2002 by Karen De Coster That deranged gaggle of knee-jerking lesbos, the NOW gang, is coming. In fact, you missed 'em, because they already came and went -- to Philadelphia, that is.On the weekend preceding the July 4th 2001 holiday, more dyke-bonding was underway in the shadow of the Liberty Bell, as Patricia Ireland and friends presented a Not For Ourselves Alone: A Leadership Skills Conference.  Once again, these bubbleheads have got their armpit hairs in a tangle over the "anti-feminist" Bush administration. The National Organization...

"You better watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical…" — Supertramp's Logical Song In the past, women ruled the home, taking primary responsibility for raising the children. In that same past, men ruled the workplace. Every workplace. Without exception. Two distinct spheres, each ruled by one sex. Some seek a return of that past, wanting women completely out of the workforce. This is based upon the premise that these roles, women as caregivers and nothing else, and men as providers and nothing else, were best for society in the first place. That premise is infinitely...

Democrats who view black people as part of their plantation won't like this: Basketball great Karl Malone, a major contributor to the Republican Party, is considering running for Arkansas governor when he retires from the NBA. He is a "natural leader" and "wants to help Arkansas prosper through population growth and development," his agent, Dwight Manley, said today. Malone has a ranch in southern Arkansas. He is also thinking about running for governor of Utah, where he plays for the Jazz. Malone, 38, has no immediate plans to retire, the Associated Press reported today. "The filing period for Arkansas' November...

By Steve Sailer UPI National Correspondent Published 3/13/2002 10:04 AM LOS ANGELES, March 11 (UPI) -- Ward Connerly, leader of the 1996 Proposition 209 initiative campaign that banned the use of racial preferences by government agencies in California, has challenged new GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon to actively campaign for full enforcement of Prop. 209 and the other anti-multiculturalism laws that Golden State voters passed in three memorable referendum elections in the mid-1990s. Similarly, Ron Unz, sponsor of Prop. 227, which replaced bilingual schooling for immigrant children with English-immersion, contends that upholding the English-only education law could be a winning...