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Despite a worldwide campaign for circumcision to slow the spread of AIDS, the rate of circumcision among American baby boys appears to be declining.

Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare: Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post. Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours -- something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

SAN FRANCISCO — A group opposed to male circumcision said on Tuesday they have collected more than enough signatures to qualify a proposal to ban the practice in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.

Female CIRCUMCISION: Americans are still sadly ignorant about this barbaric subject (OF COURSE affecting women) practiced not only in Africa but in secret - in France, Morrocco, Spain and other countries with a high population of African residents. This mutilation, carried out on millions of young girls WITHOUT anesthesia or antiseptic conditions takes away all sexual pleasure, among other vital health related functions. The Japanese no longer bind women's feet! There are campaigns to raise money for this cause and the super model Waris Dirie wrote about it in her brave autobiography.

New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous

Is a new strain of H3N2 swine flu a danger to public health or just to the reputations of public health experts?

The Board of Supervisors just banned toys in Happy Meals, which drew worldwide attention.

Now the latest ban being proposed in San Francisco is on male circumcision.

A proposed ballot measure for the November 2011 ballot – when voters will be electing the San Francisco’s next mayor – would amend The City’s police code “to make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18."

It's bad enough with supposedly unbiased news outlets in the U.S. shill for one political ideology over another, but when an American newspaper becomes an advocate for a foreign rival, that's over the line.
That's the opinion, at least, of a number of journalists and media experts who are questioning the ethics - and legality - of the publication of what they call little more than Chinese propaganda by the Washington Post

This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.For this new edition, we have added more policy variables (such as bans on trans fats and the audio recording of police, Massachusetts’s individual health-insurance mandate, and mandated family leave), improved existing measures. based on our data and a survey of state policy experts.

Air Force Academy: Training Ground for future soldiers. Now those the believe in 'the Rule of 3' and other Earth-based religions get a designated worship area. Since this is a Military Academy, you can better believe tax dollars are involved.

"It's about our commitment as airmen to protect freedom and defend freedom. To me this is a freedom thing," he [Lt. Col. William Ziegler, one of the academy's chaplains] said.

So where's the designated worship area for the Sceintologists? Satanists?