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Friday, June 9, 2017
Islamic State Launches Ramadan War on Shiite Iran with Attack on Parliament, Ayatollah Shrine
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On Wednesday morning, the Islamic State carried out an unprecedented double terrorist attack on Iran’s Parliament building and the iconic shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic and leader of the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leaving at least 12 people dead and 42 others injured.
The deadly siege went on for over four hours. The militants seemingly targeted those two specific landmarks to send a message to the Shiite government of Iran.
This is the fourth attack the Islamic State has claimed since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began on May 27. The previous three include attacks on London, England; Manila, Philippines; and Baghdad, Iraq. The government of the Philippines has rejected ISIS’s claim on the Manila attack, however, stating the perpetrator had no ties to Islam at all. Wednesday’s attack on Tehran is the first time the Sunni Islamic State has taken carried out an assault in a Shiite-majority country.
Iran’s deputy interior minister, Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari, said the terrorists entered Parliament wearing women’s clothing and wielding Kalashnikov rifles.
Another group of terrorists reportedly entered Khomeini’s iconic shrine where two Islamic State militants blew themselves up as others embarked on a bloody shooting spree. At least one Iranian security guards died in the suicide bombings.
According to the Independent, the terrorists could be heard shouting in Arabic, as gunshots and alarms rang in the background, “Oh God, thank you… Do you think we will leave? No! We will remain, God willing.” Those words were reportedly popularized by Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, who was killed in Syria last year.
In a statement released by the Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency, the group said, “The two martyrdom operatives blew themselves up inside the Khomeini mausoleum in the center of Tehran.”
A video clip believed to have been taken by one of the attackers inside Iran’s Parliamentary building was posted to YouTube:
Both Iranian security and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) reportedly killed the four terrorists who attacked the parliament building. The Shargh Daily included a picture of one of the Islamic State militant’s bodies:
شبکه اعماق وابسته به داعش ویدیویی ۲۴ ثانیهای منتشر کرده که ادعا میکند مربوط به حمله اعضای داعش به ساختمان مجلس ایران است
خبرنگار شرق میگوید هر چهار تروریست مهاجم به ساختمان مجلس ایران، توسط نیروهای امنیتی کشته شدهاند
According to the IRIB news agency, one of the men injured in the attack on Parliament said, “We weren’t allowed to bring a pen into Iran’s Parliament, but attackers easily fired [at] us in the building.”
Iran’s state Press TV tweeted an image of a security guard helping a child escape the Parliament building through a window:
“In recent days on the anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s death the shrine was very crowded and perhaps these gunmen have wanted to send a message that they can carry out such an attack in a place like that,” Azad Muhammadiyani, an MP and head of the United Kurdish Front told Kurdish news agency Rudaw. He added, “And the parliament is the place of legislation and passing laws and therefore the gunmen may have wanted to send this message too. ISIS has always wanted to sneak into Iran and the intelligence ministry has been reporting in the past three years how they have been foiling ISIS plans inside the country.”
Iran did not waste time blaming the Sunni-majority nation of Saudi Arabia for the attacks. Iran’s Fars News Agency wrote a piece titled, “Saudi deputy crown prince intimidates Iran weeks before Tehran terrorist attacks.”
According to IRIB news, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the attack a cowardly act. “Iran is an active and effective pillar in the fight against terrorists, and they want to damage it,” he reportedly said. After he finished speaking, his fellow parliamentarians began shouting “Death to America” while pumping their fists in their air.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Sekulow: Expect ‘Whining Testimony’ from Comey; ‘He Needs to ‘Grow up and Act Like an Adult’
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by DAN RIEHL
Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday to discuss the coming testimony of former FBI Director James Comey and the case of Reality Winner, who was arrested for leaking secrets from the National Security Agency.
Said Sekulow on Comey, “He’s not exactly a credible witness,” while pointing out several previous issues with testimony he’s given that has to be corrected later.
As for what to expect now, said Sekulow, “You don’t want to be left alone with the President of the United States? Well, that’s why you’re not the FBI director. Grow up and act like an adult.”
“It’s going to be whining testimony,” added Sekulow, saying he’s not sure what the intelligence community is even going to gain from the testimony. Comey is already leaking parts of his testimony and is said to not believe Trump tried to obstruct justice.
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FBI: Handgun Murders Dropped when These States Abolished Concealed Permit Requirements
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by AWR HAWKINS
FBI crime report figures show that Alaska, Arizona, and Wyoming–three states that abolished their concealed requirement years ago–have since witnessed a decrease in handgun murders.
This runs completely counter to the left’s doom and gloom predictions whereby they claim doing away with a government-issued carry permit will mean more bad guys carrying guns, more shootings and violence, etc.
FBI figures published by the NRA show that Alaska’s handgun murder rate “declined after the state enacted permitless carry in 2003.” Moreover, in the years since Alaska’s permit requirement was abolished “handgun murders have declined as a percentage of the total number of murders.”
A drop in handgun murders also took place in Arizona after that state abolished its concealed carry permit requirement in 2010. And in Wyoming–which abolished its permit requirement in 2011–handgun murders have declined as well.
A total of 12 states have abolished their concealed carry permit requirement. Those are Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and West Virginia. And Arkansas and Montana recognize permitless carry in the vast majority of their states too.
Republican lawmakers in Michigan and North Carolina are currently pushing to abolish concealed permit requirements in their states. Gabby Giffords’ gun control group is opposing these efforts by ominously warning that “almost anyone could carry a concealed, loaded gun in public” if the permit requirement is abolished. In reality, the only people who would legally be able to carry without a permit are those who could now meet the legal threshold to carry with a permit. And gun controllers’ hand wringing ignores the hard evidence that permitless carry led to lower handgun murder rates in Alaska, Arizona, and Wyoming.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of “Bullets with AWR Hawkins,” a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Penny Nance: Trump Set to End Ridiculous War Against Nuns
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by PENNY NANCE
God bless President Donald J. Trump. As reported by several news outlets, the Trump Administration is set to finally put an end to part of the repugnant ObamaCare contraception mandate which sought to force the Little Sisters of the Poor (LSP) to violate their religious convictions.
One of the most bizarre things about the Obama Administration’s ObamaCare crusade was this insistence that groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor be forced to participate in the process of providing contraception and abortifacients for their employees, regardless of their religious beliefs. Not only was the policy unconstitutional, as a violation of religious liberty, but it was just so unnecessary.
The whole time the organization I lead, Concerned Women for America (CWA), is working to stand for these poor nuns — who, by the way, take vows of poverty and chastity, and dedicate their lives to serving the elderly, the maligned, and those forgotten by society — I’m thinking President Obama will soon provide a way for them to be exempt and go about their noble work.
But no. It never happened. Abortion groups have such a tight grip on the Democratic Party, they were willing to drag the sisters all the way to the United States Supreme Court before they would recognize their constitutional rights. Ridiculous.
So, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision forcing the Obama Administration to “arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates [the LSP’s] religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered petitioners’ health plans ‘receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage.’”
It was a no-brainer case; that’s why it was unanimous. The accommodation should have happened from the beginning. But it didn’t. Even after the decision, as you can see by the news reports now, the government continued to drag its feet, unwilling to set the sisters free. It is a mark of shame on President Obama’s legacy that he left office without relieving the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Enter President Trump. I know the liberal aristocracy would never credit him with anything positive, but the reality is that this president has been meticulous and deliberate in following through with his campaign promise to correct the religious liberties abuses we had seen under the Obama Administration.
A few weeks back, when the Department of Justice asked for an extension on the LSP case, there were reports expressing concerns about it. But we at Concerned Women for America felt confident the issue would be addressed. Not only have we heard from the Trump Administration on its proactive work to correct religious liberties abuses, but we have seen President Trump affirm that commitment in many ways, like the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
We were right. A leaked draft regulation shows President Trump is set to expand the exceptions to the contraception mandate in a way that will finally end the ridiculous war against the Little Sisters of the Poor and similar groups.
In fact, the draft regulations will cover any organization with religious objections. This is good. This is appropriate. These sorts of accommodations are consistent with America’s founding principles and with constitutional requirements.
We commend the president for his thoughtfulness in dealing with such a sensitive issue. This language indeed follows through on what the Supreme Court was looking for, a way to accommodate religious beliefs while still providing the coverage for the women that want to use these drugs.
No woman will suffer because of the government’s accommodation of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Don’t believe the liberal media hysteria. As seen in the recent Kathy Griffin fiasco, something has snapped in the liberal psyche, and they will irrationally attack anything and everything even remotely associated with President Trump. Not to even mention their radicalism on abortion.
Expect the worst from them. But President Trump is right on this.
There is much work to be done to protect religious liberty, to be sure. The work is not done. But religious liberty proponents all around the country should appreciate that we have a friend in the Oval Office. That makes a world of difference.
Penny Young Nance is president and CEO of Concerned Women for America and author of the book Feisty and Feminine: A Rallying Cry for Conservative Women. Concerned Women for America is our nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, with 500,000 participating members across the country, over 450 Prayer/Action Chapters and Home Teams, 600 trained leaders, and over 30 years of service to our nation. For more information, please visit http://ift.tt/2s54fkg.
Red Sox Broadcaster Jerry Remy Thinks Foreign Players Shouldn’t Use Translators
Tuesday turned out to be quite the day for the English language.
First, Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Mike Schmidt said that Philadelphia’s Odubel Herrera’s “language barrier” prevented him from becoming a player that the Phillies could build around. Then, Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy got in on the act.
During the middle innings of Tuesday night’s game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka had a meeting on the mound with Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild, and Tanaka’s translator. Tanaka, who hails from Japan, needs the translator because he doesn’t speak English.
Shortly after Tanaka’s translator walked off the mound, Remy weighed-in on the subject of foreign players using translators. Remy said, “I don’t think that should be legal. I really don’t.”
“What is it you don’t like about that?” asked Red Sox play-by-play announcer Dave O’Brien.
“Learn baseball language,” Remy said. “It’s pretty simple. You break it down pretty easy between pitching coach and pitcher after a long period of time.”
It’s unknown if Remy made these comments because of Schmidt’s earlier remarks. It’s impossible to imagine that Remy wasn’t aware of them. Either way, this seems like a perfectly stupid thing to say. Who cares whether or not the guy uses a translator?
“Learn baseball language?” If signs, and a couple carefully selected words were all that was needed to communicate with a pitcher, then managers and pitching coaches would never go to the mound, and would just give signals from the dugout. By definition, if the team ventures out to the mound, unless they’re just stalling for time, it means something needed to be said which required actual conversation. If the player and the coach don’t speak the same language, that’s a problem.
Masahiro Tanaka isn’t some refugee, or illegal alien attempting to make America become more like Japan. He’s a baseball player, being paid $155 million dollars to win baseball games. Something he hasn’t done a whole lot of this year.
That’s a bigger problem. One obvious enough that it doesn’t require a translator.
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My personal opinion is Jerry Remy is right. I knew Remy when he was a kid in Somerset, MA Little League. From all appearances he has changed very little. Jerry was and is a stand up guy. None of our mutual acquaintances have ever indicated bias or bigotry which can be attributed to him. Jerry and his family has been through extreme difficulties with his son and Jerry’s battle with cancer. Through it all, Jerry has not changed. He has taken his role as a sports figure figure seriously.
Mutual friends of ours are of the belief that Jerry is a “good guy”.
I spent a long time working with and for Japanese companies. To a man, those I had a significant working relationship because all learned english before coming to the USA. Learning English in Japan is a common thing. English is taught on a routine basis in most Japanese schools.
About sixteen years ago a team our son Arthur played on an American team organized to play a Japanese team touring the USA. During the few days the Japanese team was here we hosted a half dozen of the adolescent Japanese team players.
Our sun parlor and living room became a dorm area for our guests and an equal number of our American kids. It was quite an experience to see the young men adjust to one another. The only problem occured at meal time. Trying to feed that gang was interesting. Oh yes, another difficulty was bathroom call time each morning (I’ll leave that to your imagination.)
We took the players to visit the Big Mamie. The Japanese kids took great interest in the exploits of the Mamie. The asked plenty of questions while at Battleship Cove.
During the games it was enlightening how the Japanese kids were very interested and curious during their time here. Millions of questions.
I agree with Jerry Remy that there should no interpreters accompany pitching coaches on the field. Latin players have managed very well. There is no reason to believe Japanese players cannot adapt to playing here and leaning enough to communicate in baseball talk.
Jerry is right and Major League baseball nor the Red Sox should interfere with Remy’s comments.
BTW, the kids, American and Japanese really liked apple pancakes in the morning and McDonald's at night.
Pete Hoekstra: Brits Allowed 'Cesspool' of Terrorist Ideology to Fester for Decades
By Bill Hoffmann
The horrific terror attacks plaguing the United Kingdom are the result of bad immigration decisions made by its government some 20 years ago, former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who chaired House Intelligence Committee, tells Newsmax TV.
"The UK has allowed in so many people who have radical jihadist ties that now your law enforcement capabilities have become overwhelmed," Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican said Wednesday to Newsmax's JD Hayworth.
"[It] goes back to the mid '90s where the Brits welcomed into their countries members of the Libyan Islamic fighting group. What was their saving grace? They didn't like [Libyan strongman Muammar] Gadhafi, but they were jihadists. But the Brits welcomed them in.
"Finally in 2005, 2006, they recognized the mistake, they said hey, this is a terrorist organization, a few years later they welcomed these folks to go back to Libya to overthrow Gadhafi. They came back, the bottom line is they never have renounced their goal of terrorism."
Hoekstra's remarks follow two of the most gruesome terror attacks in UK history. Last Saturday, terrorists mowed down and stabbed revelers around London Bridge, killing eight and injuring 48. On May 22, a suicide bomber killed 22 at an Ariana Grande show at Manchester Arena.
Hoekstra said the UK, as well as many countries in Europe, made no attempt to properly vet and integrate Middle Easterners coming in and the radical elements among them grew up in a "cesspool" of terrorist ideology.
"The Brits have not been tough on stamping out this ideology. It's all about free speech," he told Hayworth.
Hoekstra said in London's Hyde Park, which features the famous "speaker's corner," where anybody spout off on any subject, "you see these people advocating every weekend for jihad and the Brits allow it to go on."
"So, it is about borders, it is about immigration, it is about identifying these folks. If you don't do it … you lose the war and the evidence is significant that we are losing this war against radical Islam and nobody is willing to point it out.
"People say, well we're winning, and yes, I'm glad that we're winning in Mosul, that we're winning in Raqqa, but the real question that the Brits are asking, that the Germans are asking, yeah, but are we winning right here at home? And too often now the answer is no."
The nation has just emerged from graduation season. Many of us know young people who are either leaving high school and moving on to college or graduating from college and heading off into the world. But college and the promise of better career opportunities aren't what they used to be.
The job market for college graduates in America in 2017 is tighter than it's ever been, and it gets more competitive every year. No matter the degree earned, the average college graduate is becoming less likely to find a job in their chosen profession within five years, in some cases even 10 years, after graduation. Given the fact that a four-year college education can cost anywhere from $40,000 to $150,000, this is a troubling fact that is crippling an entire generation of young people looking to enter the workforce.
It's a frightening and demoralizing situation to be saddled with a debt large enough to buy a small home before the age of 25 with nothing to show for it but an 8 1/2 x 11-size piece of onion skin paper with fancy lettering. There was a time when these degrees led straight to high-paying jobs. But that time is quickly waning.
Change is happening on a social level on college campuses, too. A recent article in the Denver Post notes that women now outnumber men nearly two to one in college attendance. Women hold nearly 60% of all bachelor degrees, and they account for almost half of all students in law, medical and graduate business programs.
It's a great thing and a long time coming that women have reached this level of academic excellence. But it comes amidst a wave of militant feminism that has a high price. By comparison, over the past decade, as the Denver Post notes, close to 30% of male college students have quit during their freshman year. This is a nationwide phenomenon. What gives?
There is something ugly beyond the increasingly limited economic value of a college education in modern America. And that's the fact that college isn't about education anymore. It's about indoctrination. Colleges in this country are not a place for learning, but are rather factories for cranking out sycophants of leftist ideology. They are surely not the haven for free speech they pretend to be. Look at the walkouts, protests and riots that are now taking place on college campuses sparked by nothing more than diverse opinions that run counter to statist groupthink.
Relationally, college has gotten bad too. James Shelley, director of the Men's Resource Center at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio, gives voice to one of the real reasons young men don't want to be on college campuses. These institutions, says Shelley, "welcome young men to college by essentially telling them that they are potential rapists."
Indeed, incessant repetition of the phony one-in-five-women-are-raped statistic isn't helping. Why would young men subject themselves to such legal jeopardy?
The hostile social environment combined with the extremely limited return on investment of spending money and time in an institution of higher "learning" that no longer offers better employment after graduation makes college a bad idea for a lot of young men. It should come as no surprise that they are dropping out of — or not even bothering to enroll in — these institutions.
The problem this growing segment of emasculated men are experiencing is that there isn't really a viable alternative outside of college. Society has effectively shamed the idea of vocational training and learning a trade as some backwards mindset that no longer suits our young people. Working with your hands has become scorned in a nation that was built by people who once practiced the very trades that we now need most.
The fact is there are not enough tradesmen, or tradeswomen for that matter. The high-end professions that college is supposed to train people for these days are drowning in applicants. There are more people trained for these jobs than the market can bear.
While colleges teach classes on the evils of Western civilization and offer degrees in understanding "Star Wars" and "The Simpsons," America's infrastructure is thirsting for people with tangible skills. That's where opportunity truly is, and where viable income and steady work can be found.
Mike Rowe, TV personality and one of America's foremost practical thinkers, offers countercultural advice that should be considered by America's young people: Don't follow your passion. Passion doesn't pay the bills; opportunity does. Don't be inspired by the one-percenters who followed their passion and became Oscar- and Grammy-winning performers. Follow opportunity. Find where no one else is meeting a need and fill that need.
Higher education is not a sham. Wanting to learn more about the world is a noble pursuit and young Americans have an opportunity rare in most countries. But education is not a value in its own right. It should lead somewhere. And that place is not a leftist reeducation camp that teaches people to hate each other based on belief or gender. That place should be where you learn a skill or a trade that allows you to make a living and build a future for yourself and for your future family. This country was built by people not afraid to get their hands dirty. That is what truly makes America great.
The Squirrels vs. The Church
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrels. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will.At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a water slide on the baptistery and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Methodist church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water slide.
But the Catholic Church came up with a very creative strategy. They baptized all the squirrels and consecrated them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven't seen a squirrel since.
Katy Perry Asks Audience to Ignore Terrorism’s Savagery
BY JOHN FALKENBERG
Pop star Katy Perry had some very strong and, well, air-headed words for the audience of the concert she performed in Manchester, England, on Sunday, the city where a terrorist attack took 22 innocent lives less than a month before, and less than a full day after the London terrorist attack that has claimed the lives of seven more.
Would you believe that the performer would have us “choose love?”
Well, that’s exactly what she said during the concert, and it’s enraging a lot of people.
“It’s not easy to always choose love, is it, especially in moments like this… but love conquers fear and love conquers hate, and this love you choose will give you strength, and it’s our greatest power,” she said, according to Townhall.
“As you stand here, all of you here… standing next to a stranger… just touch the next person, touch the person next to you. Tell them, ‘I love you,’ look in their eyes,” she continued.
Um, no thanks.
“I encourage you to choose love, even when it’s difficult. Let no one take that away from you.”
Here’s some news for you, Katy. Love is a beautiful sentiment, a noble goal and the essence of a Christian life. But even the greatest Christian theologians recognize the concept of a “just war,” and love doesn’t win wars like the one that’s facing the world now.
Still, I choose to love.
I choose to love my family. My parents, my brother and sister, my fiance. I love my friends, too.
And there are people in this world who want to see them all hurt — because that is the nature of the terrorists fighting a war against the West today. It might be different for a pop star princess who’s surrounded constantly by highly trained, competent security, but for a normal civilian, it’s suicidally naive.
So, no. I will not be loving terrorists any time soon, and sometimes, “choosing love” is not enough.
It certainly was not enough for the seven dead and dozens wounded from the London terror attack less than a week ago. It wasn’t enough for the 22 who died in Manchester in May. And it won’t be enough to stop terrorists from targeting their next round of victims.
Because it won’t win a war that must be won.
Mattis Pausing Obama’s “Trans Soldiers” Order
An Obama-era mandate to allow transgender volunteers to serve in the military beginning this summer has been delayed indefinitely as senior military personnel from multiple branches of the armed forces continue to hold serious reservations, according to news reports.
On May 8, a memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work ordered heads of the armed services to gauge the military’s “readiness to begin accepting transgender applicants on July 1, 2017,” according to USA Today.
However, that memo had some language in it that seems to open the door for criticism of the policy, which may very well have precipitated this rollback by Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
“The personnel policies of this Department are designed to enhance the warfighting readiness and lethality of the force that protects our country,” Work wrote in the memo according to USA Today.
“We do not intend to reconsider prior decisions unless they cause readiness problems that could lessen our ability to fight, survive and win on the battlefield.”
Everything after the word “unless” is what we want to pay attention to here. It opens the door for high-ranking officers to make arguments against the policy change in the name of bettering the military’s capability to perform effectively.
The assessments Work ordered were due back by May 31, and here we are in June with what Military Times is calling an “indefinite delay.”
According to Military Times, the move is on hold “as senior leaders within each of the services voice lingering concerns about the Obama-era policy intended to end discrimination but dismissed by critics as social experimentation.”
Those critics have it exactly right.
Folks, we have to accept the fact that the United States military — and any other military for that matter — is created for one purpose, and that is to neutralize enemies that are deemed a threat.
It’s not a social experiment. It’s not even a particularly free place for those serving. Giving up freedoms most Americans take for granted is one of the many ways that our fighting men and women sacrifice for us.
It’s just not a place to forward a progressive agenda.
On May 8, a memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work ordered heads of the armed services to gauge the military’s “readiness to begin accepting transgender applicants on July 1, 2017,” according to USA Today.
However, that memo had some language in it that seems to open the door for criticism of the policy, which may very well have precipitated this rollback by Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
“The personnel policies of this Department are designed to enhance the warfighting readiness and lethality of the force that protects our country,” Work wrote in the memo according to USA Today.
“We do not intend to reconsider prior decisions unless they cause readiness problems that could lessen our ability to fight, survive and win on the battlefield.”
Everything after the word “unless” is what we want to pay attention to here. It opens the door for high-ranking officers to make arguments against the policy change in the name of bettering the military’s capability to perform effectively.
The assessments Work ordered were due back by May 31, and here we are in June with what Military Times is calling an “indefinite delay.”
According to Military Times, the move is on hold “as senior leaders within each of the services voice lingering concerns about the Obama-era policy intended to end discrimination but dismissed by critics as social experimentation.”
Those critics have it exactly right.
Folks, we have to accept the fact that the United States military — and any other military for that matter — is created for one purpose, and that is to neutralize enemies that are deemed a threat.
It’s not a social experiment. It’s not even a particularly free place for those serving. Giving up freedoms most Americans take for granted is one of the many ways that our fighting men and women sacrifice for us.
It’s just not a place to forward a progressive agenda.
Olympic Track Star Opens Up about Abortion Regret in New Memoir
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross opened up about her decision to have an abortion just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics in her new memoir “Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me about God and Life.”
She discovered she was pregnant just weeks before the Beijing games while she was still dating her now husband former NFL player, Aaron Ross.
"The culmination of a lifetime of work was right before me," Richards-Ross wrote. "In that moment, it seemed like no choice at all."
"The debate of when life begins swirled through my head, and the veil of a child out of wedlock at the prime of my career seemed unbearable," Richards-Ross said. "What would my sponsors, my family, my church, and my fans think of me?"
“Prioritizing athletic goals over the gift of life was the norm. It was all around me, but not until it was me did I realize many of these young women only wore a mask of indifference for something I can now testify requires deep thought and proper counsel,” she explained.
The abortion decision also strained her relationship with her now husband.
"Over the phone, we didn't go into details," she explains. "As if not saying it would alleviate some of the guilt and the shame."
Richards-Ross, who is expecting a child with her husband this summer, said: “I made a decision that broke me, and one from which I would not immediately heal.”
“Abortion would now forever be a part of my life,” she emphasized. “A scarlet letter I never thought I’d wear.”
She explained in a podcast interview that she’s telling her story for her own healing and “to tell people that you can come back from any decision no matter how hard it is to make… you can still have God with you on the journey.”
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, she revealed that abortion is prevalent in female track-and-field.
“The truth is it’s an issue that’s not really talked about, especially in sports, and a lot of young women have experienced this,” she said. “I literally don’t know another female track-and-field athlete who hasn’t had an abortion – and that’s sad.”
She hopes that her revelation “will open up some discussions, to helping especially a lot of young women who were in my situation not experience what I did.”
She explained that many track stars “don’t want to take the pill because you put water weight on.”
While abortion advocates often dismiss stories like Richards-Ross’s as anomalies, perhaps they should take their own advice and listen to the
She discovered she was pregnant just weeks before the Beijing games while she was still dating her now husband former NFL player, Aaron Ross.
"The culmination of a lifetime of work was right before me," Richards-Ross wrote. "In that moment, it seemed like no choice at all."
"The debate of when life begins swirled through my head, and the veil of a child out of wedlock at the prime of my career seemed unbearable," Richards-Ross said. "What would my sponsors, my family, my church, and my fans think of me?"
“Prioritizing athletic goals over the gift of life was the norm. It was all around me, but not until it was me did I realize many of these young women only wore a mask of indifference for something I can now testify requires deep thought and proper counsel,” she explained.
The abortion decision also strained her relationship with her now husband.
"Over the phone, we didn't go into details," she explains. "As if not saying it would alleviate some of the guilt and the shame."
Richards-Ross, who is expecting a child with her husband this summer, said: “I made a decision that broke me, and one from which I would not immediately heal.”
“Abortion would now forever be a part of my life,” she emphasized. “A scarlet letter I never thought I’d wear.”
She explained in a podcast interview that she’s telling her story for her own healing and “to tell people that you can come back from any decision no matter how hard it is to make… you can still have God with you on the journey.”
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, she revealed that abortion is prevalent in female track-and-field.
“The truth is it’s an issue that’s not really talked about, especially in sports, and a lot of young women have experienced this,” she said. “I literally don’t know another female track-and-field athlete who hasn’t had an abortion – and that’s sad.”
She hopes that her revelation “will open up some discussions, to helping especially a lot of young women who were in my situation not experience what I did.”
She explained that many track stars “don’t want to take the pill because you put water weight on.”
While abortion advocates often dismiss stories like Richards-Ross’s as anomalies, perhaps they should take their own advice and listen to the
experiences of all the women who’ve actually had abortions, including the ones who regret that decision
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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