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    Key votes on Abortion, DADT, START, and Gitmo This Week.

    By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 25th at 11:43 AM  | 

    Today, the House will consider two bills with some amendments that are important to conservatives. Abortion After a period of morning speeches, the House will finish work on H.R. 1216- the fourth bill brought to the floor that defunds mandatory appropriations for an Obamacare program.  This bill rescinds all unobligated funds for graduate medical training programs created under Obamacare.  It also subjects the remaining appropriations | Read More »

    Smash the ROTC ‘Roadblock.’

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 24th at 11:00 AM  | 

    This Inside Higher Ed article (H/T: Instapundit) on Columbia’s (and the rest of the Ivy League’s) contempt for the military does its readers a grave disservice: it adamantly refuses to even acknowledge that colleges that ban ROTC from campus are ineligible for federal funding.  This is an annoying, yet ultimately unsurprising omission, given that the only way that anybody can even have a ‘debate’ on | Read More »

    CPAC ’12 Prediction: Boycotts!! (or, ‘Will Ron Paul be Disinvited from Next Year’s Conference?’)

    By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 18th at 10:41 AM  | 

    I won’t waste your time rehashing the lengthy, and more often than not completely inane, arguments over many conservatives’ effective “boycotts” of CPAC, which included derogatory comments toward non-attendees, asinine commentary, and idealistic statements about “inclusion” from many folks who’d never attended a CPAC before in their lives.  The fact is, these were in many cases carried out through the simple decision not to attend | Read More »

    Washington Post Making Mock of Uniforms…

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 30th at 09:30 AM  | 

    …that guard us while we sleep*. I’ll summarize the WaPo’s (quite vile) op-editorial for you: the author (Colman McCarthy) still wants to keep ROTC off campus in this new, post-DADT environment because the military is made up of icky people who actually approve of the thought of going out and fighting evil.  With guns.  And who have a completely different working definition of Christianity than | Read More »

    No actual Presidential ‘evolution’ on SSM?

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 22nd at 09:46 PM  | 

    Both Andrew Malcolm and Allahpundit are looking somewhat… askance… at President Obama’s apparent “evolution” on same-sex marriage (SSM).  I put “evolution” in scare quotes because there’s no real evidence that he’s actually changed his official opinion on the subject in any way that matters: which should have been apparent from the fact that precisely zero action towards legalizing SSM has been proposed by the President.  | Read More »

    Harvard’s disingenuous Solomon Amendment statement.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 21st at 03:30 PM  | 

    With the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell almost certain now to be passed into law*, there has been some discussion of one thing that conservatives and Republicans will absolutely require to have happen: to wit, the ending of the Ivy League’s continuing campaign against the military by forbidding ROTC programs on their campuses.  Said campaign absolutely flaunts the intent of Congress (as per the | Read More »

    AFL-CIO Rips Manchin’s DADT & DREAM Act Evasion: You’re No Robert Byrd!

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 21st at 01:00 PM  | 

    Former West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has only been Senator since November 2nd. However, he’s causing a stir among some of his staunchest supporters. When union bosses can’t keep their anger contained behind closed doors, you know that they are more than a little peeved that Joe Manchin skipped out on the DADT and DREAM Act votes over the weekend. Now, they’ve come out and openly | Read More »

    Ivy League to bring back ROTC any second now, right?

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 20th at 10:30 AM  | 

    Instapundit passes along an excellent point from one of his readers: the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy has been ordered suspended, via judicial fiat.  The military has complied with the court order, although they strongly disagree with it: there is a moratorium on enforcing DADT, and openly gay soldiers may serve.  Whether you are happy with this development or not*, there is one detail about | Read More »

    Don’t Ask, Don’t Vote

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 21st at 10:27 PM  | 

    The Senate today mustered only 56 votes – four short of the necessary 60 – to break a filibuster and bring to a vote a defense appropriations bill containing two highly controversial provisions: (1) a measure repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy (a Clinton-era policy) that permits gays to serve in the military only if they are not openly gay, and (2) the | Read More »