Marine Corps to open infantry training to enlisted women

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'The Marine Corps will allow enlisted women to participate in basic infantry training beginning this fall as part of ongoing research to determine what additional ground combat jobs may open to female personnel.

New female enlisted Marines will volunteer for spots in the service’s Infantry Training Battalion, mirroring a related effort allowing new female lieutenants to enroll in the Corps’ Infantry Officer Course, according to an official planning document obtained by Marine Corps Times. Titled “Assignment of Women in Combat Units,” the document is dated Aug. 16.

“Female Marines will have the opportunity to go through the same infantry training course as their male counterparts,” the document states. However, as with the research involving female officers, “female enlisted Marines who successfully complete infantry training as part of this research process will not be assigned infantry as a military occupational specialty and will not be assigned to infantry units.”

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First cut is the deepest

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False report leads to woman's arrest on domestic violence charge, police say

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'A Paw Paw-area woman was arrested on charges of false report of a felony and domestic violence early Friday after police say she attempted to attack her boyfriend with a knife.

Alejandra Aguilar, 22, was arrested following an investigation that started when police were told she was the victim of an assault but she later admitted she lied to deputies, according to a news release from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office.

Police were called to the 45000 block of Paw Paw Road in Paw Paw Township on a report of "an unknown disturbance with an out of control intoxicated female," the news release said.'

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UK: GCSE results 2013: girls stretch to record lead over boys

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'The Government was told to commission a large-scale study into the underachievement of boys after GCSE results showed that girls were increasingly likely to secure top grades.

According to figures, some 24.8 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded A* or A, compared with just 17.6 per cent of those taken by boys.

The gulf – 7.2 percentage points – was larger than at any other time since the introduction of GCSEs in the late 80s.

Data also showed that 72.3 per cent of exams sat by girls were graded C or better, compared with just 63.7 per cent of boys’ test papers.

This was the biggest disparity in a decade.'

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Sex Ed Teacher Indicted On Charges Of Raping 14-Year-Old Student

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'WORCESTER (CBS) — Worcester County Prosecutors say they have strong forensic evidence including pictures and texts in their case charging a female sex ed teacher in Fitchburg with raping a 14-year-old male student on multiple occasions.

Rachelle Gendron, 27, was visibly shaken as she was arraigned on five counts of rape aggravated by age difference and a charge of enticement of a child under 16 years.

In court, the prosecutors told the judge they have text messages and pictures of Gendron exposing herself on the victim’s and her cell phones, including photos showing Gendron “in various states of undress” with her breast exposed.'

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Thousands of Men Warned About Faulty PSA Tests

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'Thousands of men in central Pennsylvania have been told that their blood tests for prostate cancer may have been inaccurate.

Pinnacle Health of Harrisburg sent letters to 7,500 men to alert them that a faulty chemical in their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests led to results showing higher levels of PSA than were actually present, ABC News reported.

Significantly elevated PSA levels may be a sign of prostate cancer and often lead to prostate biopsies. The faulty tests were used at Pinnacle from May 2012 to June 26, 2013.

It's likely that the Pinnacle Health patients are just the tip of the iceberg, because all lots of the "IMMULITE" PSA tests were recalled June 27 by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. The company shipped the faulty tests to labs from February 2012 through May 2013, ABC News reported.'

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Ed. note: Item is about halfway down the page as of this writing.

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Women Should Pay More for Health Care

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'The Obama Administration is about to spend $684 million on a public relations and enrollment campaign to convince young, uninsured Americans to buy government-approved ObamaCare plans. In order to be successful, they need to convince young men in particular to enroll, but ObamaCare requires insurers to charge men the same for their premiums as women in 2014.

This attempt at fairness is anything but. If fairness were really the guiding principle it would be quite simple: Women would pay more for health insurance because women consume more health care.
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People are uncomfortable in acknowledging sex differences in health care costs, but they should recognize that those same differences crop up in in other markets, too. It’s not discussed as frequently, but sometimes men are the ones paying more for certain purchases, like car insurance. Would it be fair to charge women more for it just to give men a discount?'

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Feminism: How it affects you, your divorce and your children

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'I’ve played this scratchy old record for you before, and I shall play it again. It never ceases to amaze me how MEN still don’t get it, and continue repeating the same actions with the same result: FAILURE!!

Feminism and its evil twin sister political correctness, are an ideology that is firmly entrenched in every country today, including South Africa. You will not see its face because it’s very cleverly disguised, camouflaged and presented as normal and socially acceptable. Until you dig deeper.
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Read, research and analyze feminism and men’s rights, Google is your best friend, our time will come. It is impossible that such an illogical, bigoted and hateful movement such as feminism will last forever, eventually men will revolt. It has already started. This horror that is perpetuated on us transcends all races, religion, class and creed divisions, put your differences at the door and stand united or suffer defeat.

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False Rape Claim Leads To 2 Months Jail

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'A Hampton, Virginia woman who falsely accused a man of raping her -- landing him in prison for four years -- will spend two months in jail.

Elizabeth Paige Coast, 26, will be allowed to serve her sentence on weekends. She came forward in 2012, saying that she lied about Johnathan C. Montgomery raping her. He spent four years in prison over the false claim, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

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'Drop in Circumcision Rate Is Bad News for Baby Boys'

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Americans Are Learning to Love the Foreskin

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'Foreskin is in — and circumcision has been in decline for some 30 years, a new study from an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.

Americans today aren't as anti-foreskin as they were when Ronald Reagan was president: 58.3 percent of American baby boys in 2010 were circumcised compared to 64.5 percent in 1979. So while that's a high number compared to, say, Canada, where only 30 percent of boys are circumcised, there is increasing evidence that American parents are generally comfortable not tinkering with their sons' manhoods (even if, since 2007, there's been a slight upward trend in American parents making sure their baby boys are cut).

The numbers come from a 30-year study published this month by the National Center for Health Statistics, a branch of the CDC. The numbers indicate that the circumcision rate in the U.S. is close to the lowest it's ever been (the nadir for circumcision was in 2007).'

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Canada: Jailed for Nonpayment of Child Support - But it's Not His Child

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'The feminists have ratcheted up the laws against men to such an outrageous level that paternity fraud is not just ignored, but routinely rubber stamped by the courts. Whether one agrees with the concept of child support or not, virtually everyone can agree that jailing men for child support over children who are not theirs is morally wrong. Men are routinely sent to jail for falling behind on paying child support, even though debtors' prisons in the U.S. were mostly eliminated in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Oh feminism, what happened to you?

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'Many modern-day feminists engage in man-bashing rather than making dignified demands for equality, as the feminists of the early twentieth century did. So Robin Morgan unashamedly admits, ‘I feel that man-hating is an honourable and viable political act’. The view many modern feminists seek to spread, in the words of Marilyn French, is that ‘all men are rapists and that’s all they are’. A Feminist Dictionary goes so far as to define ‘male’ as ‘a degeneration and deformity of the female’. This is an effort to make men seem inferior, not to elevate the position of women. It starkly contrasts with the goal of feminists of old, which was to make women be viewed as equal, not superior, to men.
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Feminism used to view women as self-sufficient rather than requiring the protection of the state

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CDC - 2013-08-21 CDC NCHS - Trends in Circumcision for Male Newborns in U.S. Hospitals: 1979–2010

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'Across the 32-year period from 1979 through 2010, the national rate of newborn circumcision declined 10% overall, from 64.5% to 58.3% (Table and Figure 1). During this time, the overall percentage of newborns circumcised during their birth hospitalization was highest in 1981 at 64.9%, and lowest in 2007 at 55.4%.

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A Voice for Male Students - a new website promoting educational equity for men and boys

See the introduction post here. Excerpt:

'As stated in the mission and values page, the first mission of this site is to raise awareness of the structural and cultural inequities men and boys – and in particular male students – face at all levels in our education system, and promote advocacy and activism in their behalf. Those issues, as you may see in the Summary of Issues page (which features an extensive degree of research), are broken down into three main categories:

1. Educational Attainment & Well-Being
2. Academic Culture – Misandry & Conformism
3. Rights & Protections'

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