***You’re an idiot closet homosexual, we get it. That you actually get paid to teach our young people is frightening!

Why is it so important to you to say things that hurt other people? Why is that right, that small, insignificant piece of freedom of speech to necessary to your identity? Why do you need to put others down in order to feel good about yourself? Seriously, you are who you are: value yourself for who you are, not by some comparison to someone else.***

The very first words you wrote about Dr. Adams appear to be a personal projection. Why would we want to listen to you or heed your comments when you behave, apparently, in the same manner you claim to dislike?

In the military, we basically have two types of leadership, the "Warrior", who is a troop leader first and a paper-pusher second (or third), and the "Administrator", who is basically a bureaucrat.

The "Warrior" is primarily concerned with troop-leading and preparation for battle. He is comfortable making critical decisions and is very aware he is balancing the expending of resources (including lives) to accomplish a directed tactical/strategic objective. He will do what it takes to achieve that objective, no matter the personal cost.

The "Administrator" is more comfortable with "consensus" and paperwork than troop-leading. He is rarely comfortable making critical decisions that could make him look bad to his superiors. ...

Today's mainstream media seems to look at "history" through a lens reflecting their own experiences as the norm for ages past. When I was a teen in the 60's, chastity was seen as a girl's perogative, was the preferred state of being, and when sex was accompanied by pregnancy, a prelude to marriage.

My wife and I were both virgins when we married in 1972. The idea of "free love" really didn't take off until the late 70's or early 80's. I suspect it didn't reach its current level of popularity until the third generation of welfare-moms, encouraged by more government programs, started being proud of "unwed motherhood" instead of chagrined by it.

Since the mainstream media, television in particular, plays to its...

We could do without the Department of Education in its entirety. Same thing for HUD. Think how much money we could save by eliminating two entire Cabinet Departments!!! If we eliminated the ATF, and the firearms regulations they promulgate, we could probably go back to smaller police forces nationwide, since little women could protect themselves against big men (and vice versa) on their own.
Maybe we could get rid of the DOJ, since we don't appear to be getting much "justice" these days as American Citizens...

Based on the cited examples, Sarah Palin coined the term "Death Panels", but then we discovered that, under the House Bill, administrative panels would determine whether a particular treatment was "cost effective" (my paraphrase) based on a number of factors, including the patient's age.

Rush Limbaugh's analogous comparison of the current Administration's actions to those of the Nazi Party was in response to Nancy Pelosi's accusations about Tea Party Protests; his analogy fit better than hers.

People on both sides of an argument tend to use analogies and catch-phrases intended to pithily make their points; I don't see how we can fault them for that. What we _can_ do, is hold them accountable for the accuracy of their...

Paul
The problem is that, with the advent of daily global travel and the development of weapons of mass destruction, there is no way to avoid "foreign entanglements". Isolationism will not make/keep us safe. We are caught in a dilemma; many nations' people are jealous of our prosperity (a product of our constitutional freedoms), resent our military and economic might (brought about by participation in World Wars I & II), and resent our "interference" in their affairs, even as they beg us to share our prosperity with them. We can neither disengage from relations with the world, nor allow others to take our freedoms from us. Radical Islam has vowed to bring the world under their rule. Our choices vis-a-vis Afghanistan, Iraq, and...

Killer
Based on the content and composition of your comment, you don't know enough to have an informed opinion about any subject involving history, civics, or English Composition. Please educate yourself by reading something besides your high school textbooks (if you read those) before calling others liars. It might also help for you to spend some time studying how other cultures live - good and bad - before you spend time trashing ours.

Are you saying that union workers are too stupid to know what's good for them?

If so, perhaps that is the reason that, whatever role unions played in the past, they aren't doing a thing for the so-called "middle class" now.

1. Unions caused the failure of Eastern Airlines, PanAmerican Airlines, almost caused the failure of Continental Airlines. Their work demands (ever-increasing)made it impossible for the airlines to make a profit or continue operations.

2. Union wage demands have made U.S. Auto corporations non-competitive with foreign manufacturers.

3. Union wage demands helped make our national steel-producing industries non-competitive with foreign steel manufacturers.

Numerous people on this thread have said that the problem is not so much that we should all be "sex-orientation blind", but that, by our past experience with integrating women into combat jobs, sexual orientation will _become_ the issue, as it also has with race-related concerns. Homosexuality openly approved in the military will devolve into accusation/counter-accusation of favoritism and harassment. We will waste still more time on sensitivity training and moral relativism. That takes away from time and resources we need to prepare for our main jobs; defending our country and doing the best we can to preserve ourselves and our fellow soldiers in combat.

Although I am a Christian, I believe you all have the right to make your...

When I first joined the Army in 1970, women and men were segregated and women were not allowed in the Combat Arms branches (for a number of good reasons). Those reported rapes/sexual assaults, rather than being an argument for homosexuals in the military, are more an argument for re-segregating men and women.