Recorded by an Egyptian man. Heartbreaking. But men who have been assaulted like this when younger must speak out; men so abused when babies have no conscious memories, but when victimized like this in adolescence-- they can speak out. And, I'm glad to see this evidence that indeed, this is becoming an issue in the Muslim parts of the world as well, not just the Judeo-Christian and more secularized areas. Video here. Transcript here. Excerpt:

Article here. And in related news, the sun reportedly rose in the west this morning. The 1970s had "Hanoi Jane". The 2010s have "Benghazi Hillary". Excerpt:

'Jeb Bush will present Hillary Clinton with the 2013 Liberty Medal this fall in Philadelphia.

It could be an awkward encounter for the two, both of whom are mentioned as 2016 presidential nominees for their respective parties.

Bush, the former Republican governor of Florida, is chairman of the National Constitution Center, which is giving Clinton the award in honor of her career in public service and her advocacy efforts on behalf of women.

The former secretary of State is considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the next presidential election, but has made no political moves since leaving the Obama administration. Instead, she has focused on charity work through The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Contrary to "conventional wisdom". Excerpt:

'Stress and anxiety are the leading causes of sickness in the UK's workforce, accounting for more than a third of doctors' notes to employers, research has shown.

A survey of tens of thousands of GPs' sick notes found that 35 per cent of illnesses were linked to stress, anxiety or depression.

In one doctors' surgery, more than half of employees' absentee sick notes were described as being down to 'mild to moderate mental health disorders'.

The figures come as additional research reveals that those who are concerned that stress might harm their health are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack than those who thought it had no effect.

The government's sick note scheme, renamed the fit note in April 2010, was designed to help employers back into work after a week of illness.'

On May 9 the federal government issued a decision that expands the definition of sexual harassment and removes free speech on campus. This has triggered 100 critical editorials.

On June 26 Arizona Senator John McCain sent a letter to the Department of Justice challenging its recent settlement with the University of Montana.

We fully support the senator's efforts, and we'd like to see more lawmakers follow suit. That's where you come in.

Urge your senators to join with Sen. McCain to restore free speech on college campuses. Call 1-866-220-0044.

Thank you for helping college students all across the country.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A SOLDIER arrested for a rape that never happened told how the allegation has ruined his life - as his accuser was jailed for eight months.

The young father's relationship fell apart amid whispering in his community after Philippa Costello claimed she had been attacked in April 2011.

He was arrested and held for 15 hours, had intimate samples taken, and had to wait two months before the investigation against him was dropped.
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She did not confess until she was due to go on trial last month on a charge of doing an act tending or intended to pervert the course of justice.

Her barrister, Alun Jones, told the court yesterday: "She felt stuck in a track. When she found herself in that hole, she kept digging, and she regrets that."

Judge Michael Taylor told Costello: "It is a tragedy for you to be standing before me in court today . . . I regret to say a prison sentence is inevitable.

Article and video here. Excerpt:

'Female victims are often the focus of initiatives against domestic abuse. But according to a 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control, more than one in four men in the U.S. experience rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and one in seven men experience severe physical violence from an intimate partner. Justin Nutt, founder of Acts of Random Kindness and survivor of domestic abuse, shared his story recently on HuffPost Live.
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"It escalated to a point where the police were called when she tried to stab me, after we had been out and she had done things in a bar with a guy, and [then said] that was my fault," Nutt said. "It took two years before I could really say it wasn't that I didn't love her well enough or I didn't try hard enough. It was a long time before I was able to say, 'yeah I was abused.'"'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Demarco Dent (pictured) is lucky to be alive after Iyana Mentor (pictured below), his lover of only three months, allegedly tried to run him down with her SUV three times, succeeding on the last try. Why would she try and run the man down, you may ask? Because he couldn’t spend time with her after getting off work, reports WSB-TV.

Mentor was arrested and is now facing charges of aggravated assault and hit-and-run.

The violent lover’s spat began when Dent asked Mentor to drop him off at a specified location in Clayton County, Ga. As the couple drove on a highway, Dent, who had just gotten off work, alleges that Mentor became angry when he told her he could not spend any time with her because he was tired. Dent then alleges that Mentor did not take his news too kindly and began behaving irrationally, spewing profanities and driving recklessly.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Abby Bergman has an ax to grind. An LGBT activist “all her life,” according to her bio, the high school junior is also the daughter of a lesbian couple, and as a result … thinks we should chuck Father’s Day out the window.

Listing here. Excerpt:

'Following is a listing of editorials and articles criticizing the Department of Education (DED) Sexual Assault Directive and sexual harassment speech code, and calling for the restoration of due process and free speech on campus:

2013:

1. KC Johnson: UNC and a Credulous Press – January 19
2. Pierce Harlan: The State of the Union for the Wrongly Accused is Bleak - January 21
3. Joseph Cohn: KC Johnson to Journalists: Stop Presuming Guilt – January 22
4. Amelia Evrigenis: Sexual Violence on Campus: College Lowers Standards of Proof - January 23
5. KC Johnson: Yale’s Bizarre Sexual Misconduct Hearings – February 1
6. Community of the Wrongly Accused: American Association of University Professors Stands Up for the Rights of the Innocent in its New Report on Sexual Assault — February 14

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Ed. note: The list entries above are hyperlinked on the target page. I'm just too lazy to copy them over into the list when they are right there on SAVE's site. =)

Article here. Excerpt;

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'The case is this: if you are able to listen, dare listen, and you are willing to listen to what is clear and obvious: of course you do not need to cut your newborns to win Gods acceptance, a horrifying question emerges from the mists: does this mean that something is wrong in Judaism? The answer is, yes. Of course it is wrong to maintain a practice which involves that one – unnecessarily – cuts parts from small children’s small bodies. Imagine if our neighbors – for religious reasons – had the habit of cutting their earlobes, the outer joint of their little finger or the nipples of their babies. Just like that, off with them. We would never allow that to happen. Nevertheless we accept something even worse: the cutting into and cutting off parts of children’s private and intimate sexual organs.

An update from John Kimble:

I thought it was time to update people on the progress that we've made on the issue of O2/Symantec censoring and defaming men's human rights sites.

Firstly I want to thank everyone who had blogged about this issue, it's fantastic to see it discussed in so many different places and even in different languages. I thought this article on Trigger Alert was particularly good and Tom Golden has written a nice piece on AVoiceForMen, too. There's a even Youtube video helping bring the message to a wider audience which I thoroughly recommend viewing and also plenty of material over at Fathers for Life.

I've written several new articles further investigating the issue which are essential viewing, for example highlighting some extreme feminists sites that aren't blocked, how feminists get their sites unblocked, and how O2/Symantec even treat men's rights websites as more hateful than far right groups. I also contacted ISP Review who wrote a good article on the issue which led to Symantec blocking a radical feminist site.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg has indicated that a law requiring more women in the boardroom is becoming more likely, describing the continuing lack of gender balance in Swedish firms as a "significant problem".

"It is obvious that this is being solved at a very, very slow pace. I think that the arguments against the legislation are gradually eroding and that the reasons for considering legislation have strengthened," Borg said to the Dagens Nyheter daily.

Borg argued that improvements are "not even close" to what is acceptable and in relation to business leaders arguments against the need for legislation.

The finance minister's threat comes as the proportion of women in the boardroom in Swedish firms has in fact declined to 2010 levels - 26.4 percent - according to the GMI Ratings 2012 Women on Boards Survey.'