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• Obama defends plan to build mosque near ground zero

  Fri Aug 13, 2010
  • This is not about religious freedom. The Founding Fathers wrote the first amendment to ensure that there was never a state religion in the USA. By definition ISLAM is a spiritual, legal, political, financial threocracy or in other words, state religion.

• Are You "For" or "Against" The Ground Zero Muslim Mosque NYC?

  Tue Aug 3, 2010
  • this is getting kind of boring for me... i get it, you're an atheist or at least anti-Christian and I have tried to stay literate without casting passive aggresive snips like you have. there you go, trying to cast relativism with one nutcase 10 years ago who killed 1-2-5???

• Are You "For" or "Against" The Ground Zero Muslim Mosque NYC?

  Tue Aug 3, 2010
  • I kind of base my opinions on my personal experience-having spent a large part of the last decade living in various Muslim countries....which actually makes my point. There are secular countries, and then there are Muslim countries which as I stated above, are theocracies...

• Are You "For" or "Against" The Ground Zero Muslim Mosque NYC?

  Tue Aug 3, 2010
  • in lieu of the more frequent references to Sharia Law, and honor killings that are happening here in the good ol USA, that the more radical bastions of Islam require little girls to be covered as early as nine years old, that social infractions such as adultery are punishable by death (only for the …

• Are You "For" or "Against" The Ground Zero Muslim Mosque NYC?

  Tue Aug 3, 2010
  • As a recently retired Army Officer, I always default to the Constitution, but there are a couple of things to consider on this one.

• 'Don't Ask' repeal bill likely to clear first hurdle

  Wed May 26, 2010
  • is it that the military 'discriminates' against a protected class or is it that within the military there are many 'rights' that are restricted for good order and discipline ( see my comments above @ 8.0)

• 'Don't Ask' repeal bill likely to clear first hurdle

  Wed May 26, 2010
  • having served for 24 years in Special Forces, and recently medically retired I offer the following: to repeal or not; ask this question, does it have a positive impact on readiness?

• Army chief sees 'anxiety' on lifting ban on gays

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • I'm only speaking from over 23 years service in Special Forces... sorry that's my perspective. I'm guessing your emotions are coming from a different place.

• Army chief sees 'anxiety' on lifting ban on gays

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • well of course according to choi that is your frame of reference... the number is actually infinitesimally small... and no organization would or should modify policy or as I said before a federal law that favors such a minute population.

• Army chief sees 'anxiety' on lifting ban on gays

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • that's why I said "net".... there are pluses and minuses for both arguments. The US Congress should analyze the net change if they are going to repeal a law.