Republicans and Democrats on Women in Combat
The subject of women in the military was addressed by both political parties at their national conventions last month, and it’s no surprise that Republicans and Democrats came to diametrically opposite conclusions.
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Republicans Debate: Should Women Be Drafted?
Should young women be required to sign up for Selective Service if the military draft is reinstated, just as young men are required to do.
Continue reading →Congress Is Close to Drafting Our Daughters
Ever since Donald Trump effectively won the Republican presidential nomination by decisively defeating Ted Cruz in the Indiana primary, Congressional Republicans led by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have engaged in unseemly public hand-wringing about whether they will or will not accept the people’s choice.
Continue reading →Male and Female Still Matter in Combat
Less than a year after the Supreme Court decided that marriage no longer needs partners of the opposite sex, the other two branches of the federal government are moving rapidly to eliminate all rational distinctions based on sex.
Continue reading →Phyllis Schlafly Statement: House Actions on Women in Draft
Today, Phyllis Schlafly congratulated the House Rules Committee for acting properly in stripping a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required young women to sign up for a military draft.
Continue reading →Republicans Debate: Should Women Be Drafted?
Toward the end of the eighth Republican presidential debate, the moderators introduced a new subject which has been absent from stump speeches and ignored in the seven previous debates.
Continue reading →‘Anchor Babies’ on Trial
A federal case moving to trial in Texas could provide a means to stop the practice of extending automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal aliens.
Continue reading →Women Still Don’t Belong in Combat
Unexpected events reveal uncomfortable truths about human nature, as demonstrated by two nearly simultaneous events on opposite sides of the world last Friday. In Fort Benning, Georgia, a large press contingent turned out to applaud and photograph the first two women ever to complete Ranger School, the Army’s toughest training course, which even most men are unable to finish.
Continue reading →Who Is Waging War On Women?
March 2013 The real war against women is the announced plan of the Obama Administration, using outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as the fall
Continue reading →Who is Waging War on Women?
The real war against women is the announced plan of the Obama Administration, using outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as the fall guy, to assign women for the first time in American history to fight our nation’s enemies in military ground combat. That’s real war, with real guns, real bullets, and real deaths.
Continue reading →Some of Obama’s Defense Policy Mistakes
February 2013 Sending Women into Combat In a newsworthy act of political cowardice, Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ran through the Pentagon’s exit
Continue reading →Panetta’s Cowardly Decision
In a newsworthy act of political cowardice, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ran through the Pentagon’s exit door as he announced he is striking down the 1994 Combat Exclusion Law. His timing means his successor, presumably Chuck Hagel, will inherit the task of defending the order to assign women to front-line military combat.
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- As of Jan. 3, 2011: 110 women have been killed in the war in Iraq (compared with about 4,300 men). In the Afghan campaign, 24 women have been killed (compared with more than 1,400 men).
- The 70 women killed (as of Dec. 25, 2006) include 7 mothers of young children.
- Among their ranks are more than 16,000 single mothers.
A Teenage Soldier’s Goodbyes on the Road to Over There
MOHAVE VALLEY, AZ — Pvt. Resha Kane, just 10 months removed from her senior prom, is bound for Fort Hood, and then probably Iraq. 3/04/07
STEVE TRAYNOR/KILLEEN (TX) DAILY HERALD (used by permission)