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Villanova University has decided to pressure its faculty, staff, and students into complying with a view of gender identity out of step with its Catholic mission. The decision undermines both Villanova’s purpose as a university and its desire to create an inclusive community in which everyone is treated with respect. In an email to faculty on August 11, the university administration announced a Gender Inclusive Practices Guide, which states that “gender inclusivity is fundamental to Villanova’s mission” and cites the school’s diversity statement. No mention is made of its Catholic and Augustinian identity. The best-practices guide envisions a transformative impact...

Due to really bad family dysfunction I'm staying at my apartment alone on Christmas. It's the most difficult thing one can do. You just never, ever adjust to it.

A social club in Devon has banned a 77-year-old man from breaking wind while indoors.

Obesity is more dangerous than smoking and will dramatically shorten the lives of millions, a landmark study has found. While smoking reduces life by an average of ten years, the research says being seriously overweight can cut life expectancy by as much as 13 years. The Foresight report, written by 250 leading scientists, says Britain's obesity crisis is so severe that it would take at least 30 years to reverse. If current trends continue, by 2050 about 60 per cent of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children in the UK will be clinically obese...

CHICAGO (AFP) - A Texas man is accused of stabbing his roommate to death because the man complained about his smelly feet, police said Monday. William Antonio Serrano, 20, was charged with murder. "Serrano and the victim, who are roommates, got into an argument in which the victim told Serrano his feet had a foul odor," police said in a statement. "At that time, Serrano retrieved a knife and stabbed the victim numerous times." The Houston Chronicle said the two men rented a small bedroom in a Houston apartment from a married couple with a baby. The mother and child...

BOSTON - Jill Carroll, the U.S. journalist held hostage for 82 days in Iraq, returned to the United States on Sunday aboard a commercial flight to Boston. The 28-year-old was accompanied on the Lufthansa flight by a colleague from her employer, the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, according to reporters on the plane. Carroll declined to comment while on the flight. She left the airport in a black limousine escorted by state police. Her destination was unknown. She was released Thursday after nearly three months in captivity. She was seized Jan. 7 in western Baghdad by gunmen who killed her Iraqi...

I am a US citizen & my British husband is a lawful, DOCUMENTED, permanent resident (he has to wait another 17 months before he can become a citizen). We want to buy a handgun, for personal safety in our home. Does anyone know; would the fact that he is not yet a citizen effect us getting a gun? I have a CRAZY relative (brother), who has sworn to kill me (he attacked me at Christmas, breaking 2 of my fingers, giving me a fat lip & black eye - yet, believe it or not, when Police arrived, I WAS ARRESTED,...

Hey folks, we had a great thread last night. And ol' Pat Buchanan is breathing fire again TONIGHT !!

...Freerepublic.com will collapse under the sheer weight of the stupidity generated there daily. It will be reborn as Fascists-R-Us.com....

Hi everybody! I'm new to Free Republic and I really love the site!! Its so refreshing to find like minded people on the internet. I am from rural Oregon. Anyway, I just want to say " I love Bush!" He is incredible. I can't wait to get my next tax cut in the mail... I only got 150 or so dollars back the first time, but its nice to know I'm getting money back AND we've got the BIGGEST military machine in the history of the planet! I am excited about the next six years. Hopefully we can end this...