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Yes, indeed, let us lose 10% of our forces during a long war in order to make life marginally easier for the 1% of our forces who are gay, and really want to tell the world about it. I don't lack sympathy for gays in the military -- yes, the military is telling them to hide a fundamental part of themselves, or at least not go announcing it freely. But here is the fact: Homosexuality is considered sinful by many religious people, and religious men make up a great percentage of the services. Furthermore, the military promises, among other things,...

Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female. Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat - not his real name - with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examination, they have determined that he is not simply effeminate or going through a phase. "Gender dysphoria can take place during a fetus' development in the womb," said noted gender specialist and sexologist Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., of Miami. While...

Remember when school was all about learning? You know ... the really unimportant stuff like "2+2=4" and the letters "r-e-d" spelled "red"? How about the marginally unimportant stuff like American history, the table of elements and geometry? Of course now, in failing schools all across America, we have finally arrived at the moment where the "most important" subject can now finally be taught: "How does a bisexual, transgendered, she-male utilize a condom when wishing to embark on sexual adventures with a tree?" And, of course, segregation is back now – at least in New York. But soon it will be...