by Lolita C. Baldor. Expect lower standards to come. Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units, according to interviews and documents. Studies that surveyed ... MORE
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Special Operations Troops Doubt Women Can Do The Job
by Lolita C. Baldor. Expect lower standards to come. Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units, according to interviews and documents. Studies that surveyed ... MOREJohn Stossel - Raping Culture
Another one of those social "epidemics." Apparently, new laws are needed because at colleges, sexual assault is "epidemic." Rape is so common that there is a "rape culture." I hear that a lot. It is utter exaggeration. Fortunately, AEI scholar Christina Hoff Sommers is around to reveal the truth. "This idea of a rape culture was built on ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Honesty Gap
Looking at the war on women. There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that
Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women
and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she
paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap
between women and men, as of course ... MOREFemale Marines Now 0-26 On Officer Infantry Course
by Douglas Ernst. Obviously, a sexist test.The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26. One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June. ... MOREThe Year The Crusade Against 'Rape Culture' Stumbled
by Cathy Young. December has not been a good month for the feminist crusade against the "rape culture." The Rolling Stone account of a horrific fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia, which many advocates saw as a possible "tipping point"—a shocking wake-up call demonstrating that even the most brutal sexual assaults on ... MOREComedian Destroys Illogical Beliefs of Modern Liberals
The oxymoron of liberal logic. Conservative Comedian Michael Loftus of the show the Flipside is one very funny man. Watch as he lays bare the bankrupt logic of today’s political left. If you’ve ever had that “aha” moment when talking to a liberal, where you realize that what they are saying makes absolutely NO SENSE… this is for you. ... MORE
Miami Police Assault And Arrest Woman for No Reason, Leave Her Cuffed and Naked in Public for 30 Minutes
by John Vibes. Candice Padavick of South Florida is suing Miami Beach Police after she was wrongfully arrested, assaulted, and carried through the lobby of an apartment building by police while she was completely naked. According to court documents recently obtained by NBC, Padavick took a cab home one night several months ago and was unable ... MORE
America’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business
by John W. Whitehead. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Graham is not the first girl to vanish in America without a trace—my hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has had five women go missing over the span of five years—and it is doubtful she will be the last. I say doubtful because America is in the grip of a highly profitable, highly organized ... MOREPolice Captain: To Avoid Cop Rape, Don't Break Any Laws
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. In less than two months, three Oklahoma police officers have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting women while on duty. One of the officers, state trooper Eric Roberts, was accused of raping women he pulled over for traffic violations. In the wake of this, Tulsa news station KJRH interviewed Oklahoma Highway ... MOREThomas Sowell: Irresponsible Choices
So now we want the first woman president? The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people "moderately disapprove" of Barack Obama's performance as president and 39 percent "strongly disapprove." Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now "strongly disapprove" of what he ... MOREWhat Next: Paid 'Menstrual Leave' for Working Women?
by William Bigelow. The Huffington Post's wet dream. Slate had already tackled the issue, with writer Katy Waldman dismissing it by saying, “… don’t offer us paid period leave. We’ll just spend it all taking self-pitying Buzzfeed quizzes.” But when HuffPost Live interviewed Skepchick.org founder Rebecca Watson and Mikki Kendall, ... MOREThomas Sowell: Kangaroo Courts On Campus
Does political correctness trump justice? There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to "do something" about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are rapists not reported to ... MOREOne In Five Women Is Sexually Assaulted In College?
by Samantha Harris. The White House's questionable data. In January, the White House announced the creation of a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. On April 29, that task force came out with its first report, Not Alone,
which is intended to “help schools live up to their obligation to
protect students from ... MOREF-Stamp Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Women Workers
by Terence P. Jeffrey. Another victory for hope and change. People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of ... MOREThomas Sowell - Statistical Frauds
The discrimination hoax. The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination. It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, ... MORE
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