From Phineas: Religious unity against HHS decision Posted by: Phineas on February 4, 2012 at 6:18 pm I wrote earlier that Catholic bishops across America had come out strongly against the Obama administration decision requiring religious organizations to pay for the cost of providing contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees. Jewish and Protestant groups aligned [...]
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Make a Wish
Cystic fibrosis is a terrible disease, one which compromises lung function and leads to systemic organ degradation, slowed growth and physical weakness. Once nearly always fatal in early childhood, the condition can be managed via modern medicine, but the sufferer will always be in a disease management regimen. For someone with cystic fibrosis, what we [...]
It looks like PFC Bradley Manning is heading for a full court martial
Army PFC Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of copying and sending to Julian Assange of WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified documents, has been recommended for court martial: WikiLeaks: Judge recommends court-martial for Bradley Manning January 12, 2012 | 3:38 pm
Fifteen new American citizens
I got a Facebook account when my younger daughter was in Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; the Army used Facebook as its method of providing photos and updates to the families of soldiers in BCT. Because I “liked” the 1st Battalion, 61st Infantry Regiment “Roadrunners,” I still get the updates from my [...]
The Fort Hood massacre victims: no Purple Hearts for them!
There may be another reason why the Administration sees the Fort Hood Massacre as simply a bad case or “workplace violence.” From Army Regulation 600-8-22 (Military Awards), 11 December 2006: Purple Heart¹: Paragraph 2-8 (b) The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of an [...]
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