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Man who coined ‘Axis of Evil’ worries that non-Americans will rape female soldiers if women are allowed into combat roles
There are around 300,000 women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces (both active duty and reserves) today. As of October 2012, 152 women died as a result of serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 800 have been wounded as a result of our operations there. Over 100 military women…
David Frum: Women in combat will push down military qualifications
Conservative columnist David Frum said Wednesday that it was a bad idea to allow women to fill combat roles in the U.S. military. Frum, an editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, explained on CNN that he had three reasons why women shouldn’t be in combat. “The first is, as…
Akin’s Views Are Mainstream on the Right
With pressure mounting on him from all sides, I’m going to guess that Todd Akin will be dropping out of the race and letting the runner-up in the Republican primary run in his stead by mid-week, or possibly by the end of the day. This will allow Republicans to pretend…
Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’
Conservative columnist David Frum, who was speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, blasted Fox News on Sunday for creating an “alternative knowledge system.” In an article published by New York Magazine in late November, Frum had argued that conservative media like Fox News and talk radio “immerse their audience…
Former Bush speech writer: Blame marijuana for shootings, not gun laws
Marijuana has been used as a scapegoat for many awful events in US history, with the political class blaming the drug for driving Mexican immigrants insane, filling black men with a bloodlust for white women and driving good girls into dens of iniquity. In the year 2011, such claims ring…
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