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•Men who have sex with other men have been banned from donating blood by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1977. •According to the CDC, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63 percent of new HIV infections in 2010. Universities across the country are hosting a National Gay Blood Drive today to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to change its current policies which prevent gay men from donating blood. According to the FDA’s website, men who have sex with other men (MSM) have an increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and other types of infections that can...

Demise of multiculturalism can help root out terrorism Jonathan Alter - For the Journal-Constitution Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Multiculturalism, rest in peace. There may have been no obituary for the notion that every group and every belief in a multiethnic society is deserving of mutual respect and tolerance. But thanks to jihadism, multiculturalism and moral relativism --- its necessary counterpart --- are now 6 feet under. Signs of multiculturalism's demise first began to appear in Holland, a nation that officially embraced its precepts in 1983. In theory, the Minderhedennota, or minorities policy, extended the Dutch tradition of tolerance to a...

A perfectly clear blue sky spread over Boulder Wednesday. Yet a dark cloud trailed the city's traditionally liberal majority after they learned their presidential candidate had conceded to George W. Bush. Advertisement Shock. Disgust. Fury. John Kerry supporters said they felt a tornado of emotions starting Tuesday night, as state after state turned Republican red. If Boulder County residents had called the election, Kerry would've clobbered Bush with almost 70 percent, preliminary numbers show. But outside of the so-called "Boulder bubble," Bush received 51 percent of the national vote. Local Bush supporters seemed to come out of hiding Wednesday for...