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Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim, which sells Aptivus and Viramune, two of the world’s most widely-prescribed HIV medications, has announced that they are closing their virology research division. “To ensure our sustained growth, competitiveness and independence, Boehringer Ingelheim has been focusing on areas of high medical need in which we have convincing research targets as well as outstanding capabilities,” said Dr. Michel …

Here’s a strange poem from Courage, the Catholic “ex-gay” group that acknowledges that you might have been born gay but should spend your entire life wallowing in the unending misery of never knowing love. And most importantly, never knowing the touch of another man. Clip description: The topic of homosexuality and the issues around same sex marriage are very charged …

Yesterday Pope Benedict launched a scathing attack on France’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage. The Pope thus raised three points: Firstly saying that marriage between man and woman is a “fact” of nature and “threatened” by other forms of marriage which are “proven”to be “defective”. Secondly, he warned of that the consequences of legalising gay marriage would harm society, perhaps …

An anti-Obama DVD titled Dreams From My Real Father has been mailed to 1.5 million voters, most of them in Ohio. The video claims that the president’s real father was the late Frank Marshall Davis, a Chicago writer with affiliations to the Communist Party. The film’s director and producer, Joel Gilbert, said that the film was sent out to more …

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“Feminist-imposed gender quotas hurt us at the Olympics in events which our Nation once dominated. The systematic elimination of certain men’s sports from colleges has weakened our competitiveness. We won only four medals in all of men’s wrestling, less than half the total won by Iran, and only a fraction of the medals won by Russia in this masculine sport. …

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Annie Liebovitz photographed Tim Tebow for Vogue. I’m reminded of Herb Ritts’ iconic series from the 80s, Fred With Tires.