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Feminine products, including tampons and pads, will be placed in all boy’s restrooms at Oregon Public Schools starting in the 2022-2023 school year to comply with the state’s 2021 “Menstrual Dignity Act” law. The law requires “that both tampons and sanitary pads are available at no cost to students through dispensers located” in all student bathrooms, including boys’ rooms at elementary, middle, and high schools and every other public school building in the state. Currently, the law requires that tampon and pad dispensers are placed “in at least two student bathrooms of every public school building.” “Student bathrooms” in the...

President Joe Biden signaled optimism Tuesday that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) would not block his radical entitlement spending bill, despite questioning the president’s plan for the government to spend additional trillions. “Joe, at the end, has always been there. He’s always been with me,” Biden said to reporters at the White House after returning from a trip to New York and New Jersey.

Just when you think gender insanity couldn’t reach a higher fever pitch. Transgender activists have successfully lobbied sanitary pad brand Always to remove the Venus symbol, which has for millennia been representative of the female sex, from the packaging of their products to “be inclusive of transgender and nonbinary customers.” CNN reports: "Transgender activists and allies had publicly urged Procter & Gamble to redesign its pad wrapper without the gender symbol, a circle atop a cross. Among their arguments were that not all people who menstruate are women and that not all women menstruate. "The change is the latest in...

Procter & Gamble’s Always feminine hygiene brand announced it is removing feminine symbols from its packaging in the name of inclusivity. “For over 35 years Always has championed girls and women, and we will continue to do so,” the company said in a statement to The Independent. “We’re also committed to diversity and inclusion, and after hearing from many people across genders and age groups, we realized that not everyone who has a period and needs to use a pad identifies as female.” The decision comes after transgender activists criticized the company for including the feminine Venus symbol on its...

FULL TITLE: Virginia tow truck driver is arrested after repossessing a vehicle with a woman, two kids and a dog inside before 'hitting the returning male driver with his truck and punching him in the face through the window' A Virginia tow truck driver was arrested after he allegedly struck a vehicle's returning male driver with his truck and punched him in the face through the window after trying to repossess a vehicle that was occupied by a woman, two kids and a dog. No injuries were reported, according to the police. But the failed repo attempt by Mohaned Zyoud,...

“I’d like any contest, whenever it does happen, to be about not personalities but people’s vision for the future of the country and how we can move on from a situation where we’ve crawled out of a very difficult recession into one where we can be much more ambitious about the future of our country. I’m not going to make my personal life and my family life an issue in any campaign, and I hope and trust that others won’t do either,” he added. The speaker is Leo Varadkar, favorite to be the next leader of Fine Gael in a...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2007 – The United States has stood as a friend and partner of Israel since its independence in 1948, and that situation won’t change, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here yesterday evening. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates receives the Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award from Robert Stevens, chairman of Lockheed Martin, at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs annual dinner in Washington, D.C., Oct. 15, 2007. Defense Dept. photo by Cherie A. Thurlby   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. In an age of Middle Eastern-sourced terrorism with global reach that is...

"The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better," said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism." "Someone was shouting 'Please help us, we want the human rights officers, we want the Americans to come back'," he said.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 1, 2006) – The U.S. Army Materiel Command provides more than spare parts, bullets and food to warfighters – it provides jobs, too. The Always a Soldier program provides disabled veterans opportunities to seek employment within AMC, career advancement, job mobility, family wellbeing and greater financial security. “The goal of the program is to provide continuing support to warfighters beyond their active-duty service,” said Jonathan Herst, program coordinator. “By providing jobs for these veterans, AMC can clearly benefit by tapping into the valuable experience and commitment that our men and women in uniform...

Wal-Mart Stores, facing a raft of state bills that would require it to increase spending on employee health insurance, plans to ease several longstanding - and heavily criticized - restrictions on who is eligible for benefits, the company said yesterday. The new eligibility rules are intended to increase the number of employees who can participate in the insurance plan, but it is unclear how significant the impact will be because Wal-Mart gave little detailed information about its plans.[snip] Even with the expanded plan, Wal-Mart's workers, whose average pay is less than $20,000 a year, will still pay monthly premiums and...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2005 – President Bush's decision to support a congressional measure that bans "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment" of terror suspects in U.S. custody or under U.S. control won't change military operations because the military always has upheld those principles, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said during a Dec. 15 television interview. Bush announced his endorsement Dec. 15 of the so-called "McCain Amendment," championed by Arizona Sen. John McCain, who underwent torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. "Senator McCain has been a leader to make sure that the United States of America upholds the values of...

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Always look on the bright side... By Alexis Akwagyiram BBC News Robbie's Angels, Sinatra's My Way and Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever are among the top choices of songs played at funerals. Putting aside what it says about the nation's musical tastes, is this the dumbing down of death? And it's whispered that soon,if we all call the tuneThen the piper will lead us to reasonAnd a new day will dawnfor those who stand longAnd the forest will echo with laughter Followers of those hell-raising 70s stadium rockers Led Zeppelin will recognise these words as the lyrics to the...

Mitch Goodrich: Christian school teacher, competitive marksman, soldier who recently returned from active duty in Afghanistan, martial artist ... and Libertarian Party member. As attempts to stereotype Libertarians have proven, generalizations are futile. It's no more reasonable to say members of the Libertarian Party are politically far right than it is to say they're far left -- although party members are frequently hit with both labels. And you can't safely say Libertarians are anti-military -- assuming the military is being used properly for national defense. In fact, there are hundreds of military personnel in the party's membership -- many of...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

With the election less than a week away, the interest in the latest polls is intense. The number of polls is increasing every day. Given that, can we please agree on some guidelines for posting POLL threads? If I may, I have some suggestions: 1) ALWAYS do a search on the poll name b/4 posting. 2) ALWAYS put the "release date" in the title. 3) ALWAYS put the poll NAME in the title (e.g. "Rasmussen"). 4) ALWAYS indicate if it's a STATE poll...in the title. 5) Use KEYWORDS. I.e.: "poll", [individual states], poll subject, etc. Hopefully, this would reduce the...

Why there will always be a need for men By Steve Jones Professor of genetics, University College London Superhero or zero? Professor Jones says men are indispensable If the 21st Century belongs to women, could men become extinct? It's the question raised in this week's BBC Two drama documentary If... women ruled the world? Professor Steve Jones explains why, in spite of the rumours, men are biologically hard to get rid of. One of the biggest questions in biology is: what is the point of men? Why do women let them get away with it? All they do is force...

<p>WASHINGTON - Employers with five or more workers would be required to pay for most of their health coverage under a new proposal from Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.</p> <p>Kennedy, a Democrat, has long pushed for coverage of the uninsured, whose numbers are expected to rise over the 50 million mark within six years. His new plan would require employers to pay 75 percent of the cost of coverage for their employees, who would pay for the rest.</p>