Another Conservative Fears DADT Repeal Will Lead to Draft

Sarah Palin's Ghostwriter Pals Around With Racists and Wackos
Lynn Vincent, the woman who is writing a book called Going Rogue "by" Sarah Palin, sure can pick her co-writers. She's written books before with a general who kills "demons" for God and a guy who finds interracial dating "revolting." As Charles Johnson—whose ongoing reformation from Muslim-hating wacko to right-wing apostate continues to puzzle and delight us—points out, Palin's ghostwriter's previous work includes Donkey Cons, a thoughtful investigative look at the Democratic Part...

Family Research Council Rejects "Hate Group" Label
The Family Research Council (FRC) is calling for an Apology after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) decided to classify the Christian conservative organization as a "Hate Group" because of their anti-gay Rhetoric. Perkins responded with a published statement Wednesday, blasting the SPLC for being a "massively funded liberal organization that operates under a veneer of public justice when, in fact, they seem more interested in Fundraising ploys than fighting wrongdoing." Following a wave of ...

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay Speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for Gay men and Lesbians to be imprisoned. Labeling the Family Research Council a hate group puts one of Washington's Most Powerful Social Issues advocates into the company of groups like the Nation of Islam and the now mostly defunct Aryan Nati...

Family Research Council Labeled 'Hate Group' By SPLC Over Anti-Gay Rhetoric
The Family Research Council is perhaps the most prominent voice in conservative social politics and the hosts of an annual rite of passage for many Republicans who hope to run for president. And now, FRC is on the same Southern Poverty Law Center list of Hate Groups as the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay Speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for Gay men and Lesbians to be imprisoned. Labeling the Family Research Cou...

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay Speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for Gay men and Lesbians to be imprisoned. Groups are labeled hate groups by the SPLC -- which made a name for itself by using civil Lawsuits to severely weaken the KKK and other white supremacist groups -- when they "have beliefs or practices th...

The Most Hilarious Piece You'll Ever Read About Gays in the Military
D.C. comedy site "The Daily Caller" has a hilarious piece today, extremely Swiftian and sophisticated in its humor and irony! It is by a former Tennessee District Attorney, named Joe Rehyansky. It goes like this: "I have never encountered my eminently sensible proposal, one that protects the patriotic urges of some Homosexuals as well as the national interest on the basis of 'force readiness' arguments which should govern the thinking of those charged with implementing t...

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay Speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for Gay men and Lesbians to be imprisoned. Groups are labeled hate groups by the SPLC -- which made a name for itself by using civil Lawsuits to severely weaken the KKK and other white supremacist groups -- when they "have beliefs or practices th...

Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, TSA Edition
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, TSA Edition Topic: WorldNetDaily It's highly unlikely that, if I were president, I would ever sign off on instituting an airport-security program that coerced virtual strip searches, limited Sexual Assaults, irradiating passengers and the practice of reusing plastic gloves to fondle the private body parts of multiple travelers. But, if I were and if I did, it would mean I really thought this wretched practice was vitally necessary to the security of the nat...

The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
I was on CNN earlier today—very early this morning—via Skype. First and most importantly: I hate Skype . I look like I'm dying on Skype. But there was no getting to a TV studio this AM, so I had to Skype. I HATE YOU, SKYPE. Kyra Phillips invited me to come on CNN Newsroom to discuss this week's report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their report found that LGBT people were more at risk of being Victims of Hate Crimes than any other minority group. SPLC: The SPLC’s analysi...

Don't hint, don't wink: An immodest proposal
Joseph A. Rehyansky is retired from the United States Army and the Chattanooga, Tennessee, District Attorney's Office. He is a former contributor to National Review whose writings have also appeared in Human Events Online, The American Spectator, and other publications. It’s been a long time since I was required to shower among 40 or so friends, acquaintances, and virtual strangers, or not do so at all — a socially unacceptable option.  Forty-two years after the fact, I no longe...

Gratitude and Gettysburg
From Love, Life & Truth: Thanksgiving. We all know it’s about more than turkey, football and kick-starting the holiday shopping season. As I mentioned last year, it’s about coming together with a spirit of gratitude - in good times or bad - in plenty or pain - in peace or war. Yep - even in times of war. In fact, the first official Thanksgiving was celebrated in the midst of The American Civil War - only months after the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, where mor

Fox News rejects DADT repeal ad
The GOP Propaganda channel Fox “News” has rejected an ad the highlights various allied Generals in support of Gays and Lesbians serving in the United States Armed Forces. Fox “News” the Unfair and Unbalanced” Propaganda channel that features several contributors and hosts who are clearly Unbalanced, said no to the ad because it does not fit the GOP "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" agenda. The United States Secretary of Defense Bill Gates, and the Chairman of th...

Us vs. Them: What They Want
   Since the Midterm Elections, the prevailing message out of the republican echo chamber has been “the American People have spoken.” Well, actually they haven’t.  Make no mistake about it; what we witnessed in the 2010 midterm was the triumph of corporate interest and dollars over the democratic process.  Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to distract the public and distort the issues in order to install foot-soldiers who will do the bidding of...

Holiday gifts for troops overseas
Mailing Santa a letter this Holiday Season may be easier than sending a package to a loved one in the Military. As we all know, Kris Kringle will receive most any mail addressed to him, whether it’s sent to the North Pole or a U.S. court house. (Remember the piles of mail delivered to Santa at the court house in “Miracle on 34th Street.”) But writing the country name on a package addressed to a soldier in the Middle East may delay its arrival. And packages containing any materi...

Artificial intelligence: No command, and control
ARMIES have always been divided into officers and grunts. The officers give the orders. The grunts carry them out. But what if the grunts took over and tried to decide among themselves on the best course of action? The limits of Human Psychology, battlefield communications and (cynics might suggest) the brainpower of the average grunt mean this probably would not work in an army of people. It might, though, work in an army of robots. Handing battlefield decisions to the collective intelligence o...

Don't Ask Don't Tell's Final Act: Stage Is Set For Hearing
WASHINGTON -- The stage has been formally set for the final, theatrical hearing over whether or not Congress will Repeal the Military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy this year or even next year. On Wednesday, Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced that he will hold two days of hearings on the policy that restricts gays from serving openly in the Armed Forces. The hearings will come just days after a year-long report, commissioned by the Pentagon, wi...

Do 'gay' passengers getopposite-sex pat downs?
Apparently, the Terrorist-detection procedures of the Obama Administration are derived from the age-old method used to tell if puppies are boys or girls. One just has to hold up the puppy in question and have a look. Or, as the method's equivalent works down at the Transportation Security Administration, one just pulls Granny out of the line and performs the Safe Skies Samba. If only there were some way for the TSA to tell Muslim terrorists who want to blow up a plane from Episcopalian grandm...

Do 'gay' passengers getopposite-sex pat downs?
Apparently, the Terrorist-detection procedures of the Obama Administration are derived from the age-old method used to tell if puppies are boys or girls. One just has to hold up the puppy in question and have a look. Or, as the method's equivalent works down at the Transportation Security Administration, one just pulls Granny out of the line and performs the Safe Skies Samba. If only there were some way for the TSA to tell Muslim terrorists who want to blow up a plane from Episcopalian grandm...

John A. Pérez reassures young gay people: It gets better
Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez delivered a candid Thanksgiving Day video message today in which he describes coming out to his parents as a Gay young man around one Thanksgiving Day and repeats the message that "it gets better" for gays and Lesbians dealing with Discrimination over their Sexual Orientation. Pérez's video was part of a national effort sparked by sex columnist Dan Savage in which thousands of people have recorded videos describing their experiences of being gay, i...

New poll undercuts GOP claims of a midterm mandate
Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: November 24, 2010 WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new Health Care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of Registered Voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or Repeal it altogether. Driving s...

New poll undercuts GOP claims of a midterm mandate
Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: November 24, 2010 WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new Health Care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of Registered Voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or Repeal it altogether. Driving s...

A preview of post-holiday gametime on DADT repeal
A lot going on in Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal world currently, and taking off to Western New York for the holidays, I didn't have time to write a longer piece, but wanted to fill everyone in on the latest. So instead, I'll leave it to The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld, who has started an online TV show. The first segment deals with DADT Repeal and what's on the horizon, and includes Sen. Mark Udall's Chief of Staff Mike Sozen and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's Aubrey Sarvis, along with Joe...

Turkey 'suspends senior officers'
The Turkish government has reportedly suspended two generals and an admiral linked to a plot against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It is believed to be the first time in modern Turkish history that serving Military figures of such high ranks have been removed from their posts. The three men have appealed to Military judges to cancel the decision. Dozens of Military personnel are to go on trial next month, charged with attempting to overthrow the government. Those involved in th...

Deployed troops receive 245,000 pounds of turkey
Who eats 244,854 pounds of turkey, 4,308 cans of cranberry sauce and 38,292 pies? The Troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq for their Thanksgiving feast this year. And that considerable feast is slimmed down compared with last year, reflecting the withdrawal of Troops from Iraq. Only 144,854 pounds of turkey has been sent to Iraq this year, compared with 376,924 last year. Local commands did increase their orders of shrimp and beef, however — ordering 900 more pounds of shrimp than ...

Two Civilian Killed in North Korea Attack
Two burnt bodies of civilians in their 60s have been found on South Korea’s island Yeonpyeong, shelled on November 23 by North Korea after South Korea test fired its Arsenal as part of a Military drill, according to South Korea. It has been reported yesterday that two South Korean Marines have been killed and 17 were wounded apart from three civilians. Yesterday, South Korea said that at least 18 people were injured in the attack, as per BBC News. Homes and mountains were set fire forcin...