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Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Attention Dr. Blake Armstrong of South Texas College: here’s why your comparison of the Tea Party to the Nazis is inaccurate The Blaze recently reported:Prof. Tells Students Not to ‘Tell Anybody’ About His Vexed Tea Party ‘Analogy’ — He Didn’t Know It Was Already Caught on VideoDec. 8, 2014A psychology professor at South Texas College in Weslaco, Texas, was seemingly caught on video last month comparing the tea party to the Nazis of the 1930s in Germany.He then told his students not to “tell anybody” about his remarks — but one of his students had already...

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Air Force officials say an airman armed with a pistol has barricaded himself in a building at a Colorado Air Force base that controls all GPS satellites, but operations haven't been disrupted. Schriever (SHREE'-ver) Air Force Base spokeswoman Jennifer Thibault (THEE'-balt) says the building was evacuated after the standoff began Monday. She says no shots were fired and no one was injured.

A tension always exists between the cocky rhetoric of the left and its undemocratic tactics. Were left-wing ideas as popular as they claim, liberals wouldn't need to advance them in such an underhanded way. "Progress" on the causes most dear to them usually take place not at the ballot box but in judicial chambers, or, as it happens this week, in an undemocratic lame-duck session of Congress. A smug and beaming Obama declared at the signing ceremony for the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on Wednesday that people will look back and wonder why homosexuality in the...

One week after warning the distraction of repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” could risk Marines’ lives, Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, pledged to lead the effort to integrate openly gay Marines. “I, and the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps [Carlton Kent], will personally lead this effort, thus ensuring the respect and dignity due all Marines,” Amos said. “On this matter, we look forward to further demonstrating to the American people the discipline and loyalty that have been the hallmark of the United States Marine Corps for over 235 years." Amos’ statement sent to reporters came Sunday...

Nearly two decades ago, President Bill Clinton ignited the first of the firestorms that would define his presidency by announcing an end to the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. Today, 18 years later, the U.S. Senate took the vote that means gays and lesbians will be able to serve openly in all branches of the U.S. armed forces. As the House has passed an identical bill, a final vote in the Senate will send the legislation to President Obama, whose signature will make it law and make it a signal achievement of his presidency to date. Thus...

The fight is over and we have lost. An openly gay military will be protecting us against some of the most dangerous enemies we have ever been threatened by. To say the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) comes at a terrible time is a genuine understatement. Pushed by a Democrat president controlling a Democrat Congress, the predictable end of DADT is all but here. Homosexuality a lifestyle considered incompatible with the demands of military efficiency will be forcibly added to the problems field commanders already face. This is a triumph of political correctness over the reality of keeping...

Earlier this year, while testifying at a Senate hearing, a former NATO Commander and Marine General, John "Jack" Sheehan, committed an extreme violation of political correctness. He contended that openly gay soldiers undermine military effectiveness. The general has since apologized for his comments after apparently getting his mind right. Nevertheless, as Congress and the president have renewed their push for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) and the Secretary of Defense has offered tepid support, perhaps his original statement merits more careful consideration. The story General Sheehan told the Senate involved a Dutch military unit responsible for guarding...

"Democratic and Republican lawmakers are questioning the decision to move ahead on a vote to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, saying Congress and the administration should wait until the Pentagon completes its internal review this fall."

John McCain should tell his daughter to shut up if he doesn’t want to be completely outed as the RINO that he is. At least Meghan speaks the truth while her dad goes on lying to the good people in Arizona trying to convince them that they simply misunderstand his voting record. This is just like Jimmy Carter’s problem with Billy. Just like Meghan, Billy told the truth about what Jimma really thought. I guess McRino still thinks he can win elections by allowing his Bimbo daughter to do interviews on the View. I hope the people of Arizona have...

Maybe this should be an issue that is on the ballot for the citizens to vote on instead of a handful of power hungry politicians making the decision, or a socialistic leader. On Tuesday Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he is appointing a task force to use your tax dollars to perform a year long study, during war time and a major recession, on how the military would implement a repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which bars gays from openly serving in the military.

Vancouver, Washington: The archaic, confusing and discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S. military apparently will linger indefinitely. A noncommital U.S. Supreme Court and a reluctant President Obama are seeing to that. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a legal challenge to the policy that attempts to ban known homosexuals from serving in the military. According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration "had urged the justices not to hear the appeal against the policy, even though Obama is on record as opposing it." The president opposed don't ask, don't tell during the campaign last year,...

Give credit to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who at least has been honest about shelving President Obama's campaign promise to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on gays in the military. Most gay rights groups, the rest of the Obama administration and congressional champions are pretending that repeal is still on anyone's agenda. Obama budget details out today provide money for continuing to enforce the policy, even as it becomes ever more obsolete with five states now sanctioning gay marriage. The military had made clear that it has no appetite to move on repeal.

In December of 1992, even before he began his first term as President, Bill Clinton announced a controversial policy related to the service of homosexuals in the military called, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). At the time, the Clinton administration was seriously lobbying Congress to change federal law which prevented openly homosexual individuals from serving in the United States Armed Forces. Clinton's plan was met by furious criticism from political conservatives as well as military members who said such tampering with federal law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) would negatively impact the nation's ability to defend itself....

Supreme Court upholds college military recruiting law By Gina Holland The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. Justices rejected a free-speech challenge from law school professors who claimed they should not be forced to associate with military recruiters or promote their campus appearances. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the decision, which was unanimous. Law schools had become the latest battleground over the "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing gay men and...

WASHINGTON — At first, it seemed to Army Spc. Tommy Cook to be just another hateful comment. "A soldier we all knew was gay had walked by our truck," said Cook, who at the time was about to be deployed to Iraq. "My sergeant said, `If I ever find out anyone in my crew is gay, I would kill him.' " But when Cook, 22, thought more about it, he decided it was time to come out of the closet after working for three years under the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law. Cook, from Angleton, reported the incident...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A National Guardsman who pleaded guilty to killing a 17-year-old Iraqi soldier said he shot the young man after they had consensual sex in a guard tower, a newspaper reported Saturday, citing court-martial records. Pvt. Federico Daniel Merida, 21, pleaded guilty to murder without premeditation and other charges during a court-martial in Iraq in September. Merida was sentenced Sept. 25 to 25 years in prison and reduced in rank and will be dishonorably discharged. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., a Leavenworth spokeswoman said. Army officials at Forward Operating Base Danger, where the court-martial was...

I do stand up comedy. Jeff Foxworthy has his "You Might Be A Redneck..." I have "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". I began writing this when I thought how Bill Clinton threw the gay movement a bone to shut them up.

Citing the precedent set by the US Supreme Court ruling in the Texas sodomy case, a decorated Vietnam Combat Veteran filed suit late yesterday with the US Court of Federal Claims challenging the constitutionality of the 'don't ask, dont tell' policy.The challenge filed by LTC Steve Loomis, who was ousted from the Army for being gay just 8 days prior to his 20 year retirement date in 1997, also challenges the federal anti sodomy statute covering the military.The lawsuit is based on the recent US Supreme Court opinion in Lawrence v. Texas which declared that the Texas Sodomy Statute violated...

<p>ATLANTA — During his keynote address at a black-tie dinner here Saturday, U.S. Sen. John Edwards (search) voiced his support for adoptions by gay parents.</p> <p>The North Carolina senator, one of nine Democrats seeking the party's presidential nomination, isn't the only one courting gay voters. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (search) has touted a law he signed allowing civil unions for gays and lesbians. U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, a decorated Vietnam veteran, makes has said gays should be allowed to serve in the military.</p>

ATLANTA (AP) — During his keynote address at a black-tie dinner here Saturday, Sen. John Edwards voiced his support for adoptions by gay parents. The North Carolina senator, one of nine Democrats seeking the party's presidential nomination, isn't the only one courting gay voters. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has touted a law he signed allowing civil unions for gays and lesbians. U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, a decorated Vietnam veteran, makes has said gays should be allowed to serve in the military.Bill Clinton made history in 1992 by openly courting gay voters en route to the White...