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		<title>Rushing the National Defense Authorization Act</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lame-duck Congress puts military lives on the line. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Army-legs.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246742" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Army-legs-450x300.jpg" alt="Army-legs" width="363" height="242" /></a>A lame duck Congress is on the verge of <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2014/12/03/memo-to-the-senate-gop-class-of-2016-what-are-you-nuts-n1926861/page/full"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sticking it</span></a> to America’s troops. Before they leave for recess they will attempt to pass the FY2015 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It is a compendium of ill-advised ideas seemingly aimed at advancing the Obama administration’s continuing effort to “fundamentally transform” the finest fighting force in the world into something more closely resembling a social-outreach organization. Sadly, Republicans, apparently oblivious to the mandate just handed to them by the electorate, are on board.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unsurprisingly, the effort to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans-to-shrink-army-to-pre-world-war-ii-level.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">shrink</span></a> the military to its smallest size since WWII will be borne in large part by those who do the fighting and dying. A scheduled pay raise of 1.8 percent will be <a href="http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/benefits/pay/allowances/2014/12/02/ndaa-deal-pay-raise/19784183/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reduced</span></a> to one percent, there will be reduced growth in the troops’ Basic Housing Allowance (BHA) for those who cannot be accommodated on military bases, and a $3 copay will be added to the cost of prescription medication. For Americans who think this is no big deal, here is the <a href="http://www.militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-e1_e5_2014"><span style="color: #1255cc;">2014 Military Pay Chart</span></a> revealing the troops’ relatively meager pay levels, even for those with decades of service to our nation.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet it is the ever-reliable Center for Military Readiness (CMR) that <a href="http://cmrlink.org/content/home/37616/problematic_proposals_in_national_defense_authorization_act_for_2015_ndaa"><span style="color: #1255cc;">details</span></a> the far more pernicious agendas advanced in this bill. While troops bear the aforementioned reductions, pork still prevails. Sections in a version of the bill conceived by the Senate Armed Services Committee would establish a feminist-oriented entity to be known as the &#8220;Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces.&#8221; As the CMR explains, this &#8220;would establish yet another power base in the Pentagon for feminists who believe that a person accused of sexual misconduct is automatically guilty, unless he is somehow (against all odds) found innocent because of &#8216;anti-women&#8217; legal procedures that must be ‘fixed.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even as the military is enduring cuts that shrink every branch of our armed forces, a large increase in gender quotas, aimed at increasing the recruitment of women into military service academies by an additional 20 percent, is also part of the agenda. There is nothing wrong with recruiting women, but as indicated by both the Defense Department and the left-leaning RAND corporation, there has been no evidence of insufficient efforts to do so. What this is really all about is the ongoing effort to integrate women into direct ground combat (DGC) units, despite extensive <a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/InterimCMRSpecRpt-100314.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">evidence</span></a> that standards of effectiveness would be compromised in the process. Regardless of biological reality, the Obama administration has embraced “gender diversity metrics,” allowing more qualified personnel to be replaced by those meeting minimum standards laughably referred to as “lower but equal.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An October article in The Hill<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/219685-enlisted-women-to-begin-serving-on-submarines"><span style="color: #1255cc;"> announcing</span></a> the effort to integrate a fixed percentage of women onto ballistic missile submarines, is illustrative of the current thinking. Navy Cmdr. Renee Squier, head of the Office of Women&#8217;s Policy for the Chief of Naval Personnel, explains that &#8220;the goal is to have each unit have 20 percent,” in order to build a &#8220;good ecosystem&#8221; for female submariners. As the CMR <a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/articles/print/35896?author=0&amp;image=0&amp;domain=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a> this is being done despite evidence that submarine “ecosystems,” that include &#8220;prolonged exposure to chemical contaminants in the constantly recirculated air” pose unique health risks for female sailors. As told to Front Page by CMR president Elaine Donnelly, her organization filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to determine whether female sailors had been made aware of those potential health risks. In keeping with this administration’s contemptible track record, the CMR was stonewalled.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The CMR also blows up the notion that women need to be in direct ground combat units to advance their careers. &#8220;For decades, women have been promoted at rates equal to or faster than men,” CMR explains, further citing a Defense Department report submitted to Congress in 2012 that states<i> &#8220;</i>there is no indication of women having less than equitable opportunities to compete and excel under current assignment policy…&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Quotas are only part of the equation here. As <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/02/congresss-sneaky-tactic-grab-u-s-land-government/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> by the Daily Signal, the 2015 NDAA may also include a provision adding as much as &#8220;250,000 additional acres of wilderness, four new national parks and seven national park studies (future parks-to-be)” to the federal government’s real estate portfolio. That would be a portfolio of federally-owned property that, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/4/this-land-is-whose-land-ranch-standoff-reveals-ext/?page=all"><span style="color: #1255cc;">according</span></a> to a 2012 Congressional Research Survey, now totals approximately 640 million acres comprising approximately 28 percent of the nation’s entire land mass. As the Signal notes, &#8220;the importance of the NDAA to the defense budgeting process and its traditional status as a &#8216;must-pass&#8217; piece of legislation makes it an inviting target for pet projects and wasteful spending,” one where &#8220;lawmakers are trying to end-run the normal legislative process in a rushed, closed-door approach.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Why the rush? Vanity appears to be an integral part of the equation. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI), both of whom are retiring, are reportedly jamming this bill through the lame duck session &#8212; so the bill can be named after them. To further that effort, a mechanism known as <a href="https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/unanimous_consent.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Unanimous Consent</span></a>, defined as setting aside a specified rule of procedure so as to expedite proceedings—as in everyone agreeing not to add amendments to the bill that would require time-consuming votes—is being employed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ms. Donnelly was critical of the lack of transparency that has surrounded passage of the NDAA in previous cycles, in addition to this one. &#8220;A process that is not transparent, like the ObamaCare bill for example, invites big policy mistakes which have serious consequences,” she warned. &#8220;The primary offense is not what’s there but what’s not: appropriate oversight.” With regard to many of the sexual issues that concern the CMR, Donnelly see an ongoing “emphasis on social change,” much of which is being pushed using what she refers to as “perception management,” a term <a href="http://davidbaldacci.com/book/the-whole-truth/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">coined</span></a> by author David Baldacci. “The military is attempting to create a (gender-based) reality that doesn’t exist and getting people to believe it,” she explains.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nothing illuminates that perception management better than the aforementioned phrase “lower but equal,” and one is left to wonder why Republicans, who will have far more leverage over the process in January, are collaborating with Democrats to rush the passage of the NDAA before then. The American electorate, and the men and women who have volunteered to defend this nation, deserve more thought, more transparency and more pushback against an Obama administration and a Democratic Party all determined to make the American military virtually indistinguishable from politically correct American society. In a world fraught with danger, it is a fatal mistake to do so.</p>
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		<title>Why &#8216;Diversity&#8217; Means Quotas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about racial preferences in higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239669" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity-442x350.jpg" alt="diversity" width="327" height="259" /></a>Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, <em>My Beloved World</em>. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative action made a difference in her life, and believes it’s still necessary.”</p>
<p>Stephanopoulos continued,</p>
<blockquote><p>“There’s been a lot of scholarly work that says it’s not the best way to insure diversity in schools, and maybe if you focus on where people live, and how much money they make, you can get the same results, in a way that is less fractious.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To which the Justice responded,</p>
<blockquote><p>“…the problem with that answer is that it doesn’t work….it’s not that I don’t believe that it doesn’t work, it’s that the statistics show it doesn’t work.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sotomayor, as you may recall, read a lengthy dissent in Schuette v. Coalition, the case which determined that states may ban racial preferences in higher education – a conclusion Sotomayor vehemently disagreed with.</p>
<p>Unmentioned in this discussion were the words &#8220;quotas&#8221; or &#8220;Bakke.&#8221; After being twice rejected by UC Davis medical school, Allen Bakke sued. His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act.</p>
<p>UC Davis medical school had two separate admissions programs: a regular program, and a special program intended to help disadvantaged students. Applicants to the special program would compete against each other, and would not be compared to regular applicants.  Importantly, the special program accepted applicants with college GPA’s below 2.5.</p>
<p>Ostensibly intended for the disadvantaged of all races, the special program had never accepted a white applicant, although many had applied. Also, racial minorities composed a majority of the committee members who determined admission to the special program. UC Davis also denied that the special admissions program operated as a quota; the Supreme Court disagreed.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court found UC Davis’s admissions scheme to be unconstitutional, and ordered UC Davis to admit Allen Bakke to medical school. The court’s ruling explicitly stated that both quotas and two-tiered systems were unconstitutional &#8212; something confirmed by future Supreme Court rulings.</p>
<p>The court did allow an exception to this general prohibition on the use of race or ethnicity. Colleges could consider race as a factor, if they used it in the same manner as they did other factors. Colleges could not reserve spots for different ethnic or racial groups, but they could consider the value that a student from an under-represented group would bring. This would be the fig leaf that allowed colleges to pursue their racial and ethnic balancing schemes.</p>
<p>At the 2013 University of Michigan “Future of Campus Diversity Symposium,” the fig leaf came right off. Attorney Mark Rosenbaum – fresh from convincing the Sixth Circuit court of appeals that Michigan’s ban on racial preferences violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment – delivered the <i>second </i>keynote address.<i> </i></p>
<p>After telling his audience that “diversity is about how one lives a life,” and “is about respecting the dignity of every single person,” he got down to brass tacks. Bans on racial and gender preferences in higher education had reduced the enrollment numbers of some ethnic and racial groups. According to Rosenbaum, Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in admissions caused African American freshman enrollment to decline from 8.1% to 5.2% at the University of Michigan. “In a state where the number of African American’s are between fifteen and twenty percent,” Rosenbaum informed his audience.</p>
<p>And this isn’t just talk. Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radcliffe studied admissions preferences at both public and private institutions. Although they wouldn’t characterize it this way, their data clearly shows that both public and private institutions employ admissions preferences for the purpose of balancing their racial and ethnic demographics.</p>
<p>When comparing similar applicants to highly selective private schools, being black instead of white is worth the equivalent of 310 extra SAT points, being Hispanic instead of “non-Hispanic white” is worth the equivalent of 130 SAT points, and being Asian instead of white costs you the equivalent of 140 SAT points.</p>
<p>At public institutions, being Hispanic instead of non-Hispanic white doesn’t help your odds much, the equivalent of .3 ACT points. But at these same institutions, being black instead of white increases your odds of acceptance by the equivalent 3.8 ACT points, and being Asian instead of white decreases the odds of acceptance by the equivalent of 3.4 ACT points.</p>
<p>These statistics can only be explained as deliberate efforts at demographic balancing.</p>
<p>The numbers become even more disturbing when one considers social class. At public institutions, socio-economic factors play little role in admissions, but the same cannot be said for private ones. Non-white applicants from lower class backgrounds enjoy considerable class-based affirmative action; not so for whites. Whites are the only group where lower class applicants have less chance at being admitted than middle class applicants; in this case, the numbers are 8% and 28% respectively. For comparisons sake, 81% of lower class, and 50% of middle class, black applicants are accepted.</p>
<p>Elite private institutions, all of which receive federal and state money, offer class-based admissions preferences to every group except one: whites. While offering financial aid and admissions preferences to low-income people of other races, these institutions treat poor white kids as an unwanted financial burden. Imagine the outrage if government benefits granted to everyone else were denied to any other group aside for whites. In his Bakke opinion, Justice Powell specifically cited the denial of surplus food stuffs to African Americans as an example of unequal treatment.</p>
<p>When we debate race-conscious admissions, we have to debate such programs as they exist, not as we would like them to be. When a college administrator says that it is unacceptable for the proportion of under-represented groups to fall below a certain threshold, for all intents and purposes, he is calling for a quota. To those who support these programs, do you support quotas?</p>
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		<title>What Happens When the Racism Runs Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ideology that offers inequality for all.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/what-happens-when-the-racism-runs-out/al-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-183911"><img class=" wp-image-183911 alignleft" title="al" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/al-450x304.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="213" /></a>Ever since the Civil Rights movement became a &#8220;Grand Myth&#8221;, the 20th Century equivalent of wagon trains headed West and the Minutemen at Concord, an activity so redolent of national values that it becomes a metaphor for what being American is, every generation has been given its marching orders to fight for a new equality.</p>
<p>Fighting against inequality requires inequality in the same way that Manifest Destiny needed land area to work. It becomes harder to spread out once you&#8217;ve hit the Pacific Ocean. Fighting for civil rights becomes a struggle when everyone has the right to vote, drink from water fountains and do everything else.</p>
<p>After that it&#8217;s all imaginary territory. You aren&#8217;t really expanding the borders; you&#8217;re just paving over swamps, slopping split level housing all over them and pretending that the next lawsuit over racial profiling or the article over pay inequities is just like those people in the black-and-white photos marching at Selma.</p>
<p>Racism is a resource and like every other resource, it&#8217;s in danger of running out.</p>
<p>We hit Peak Racism decades ago. Peak Sexism peaked even earlier. Even Peak Homophobia peaked a while back. The cool kids are trying to push Islamophobia while peddling worn copies of Edward Said&#8217;s Orientalism that the campus book store refuses to buy back at more than 10% of the sale price.</p>
<p>Equality stopped being the issue before most of the people fighting inequality today on a professional basis were even born. Instead the issue became carving out niches of inequality that would preserve &#8220;inequality safaris&#8221; for the edification and lawsuits of future generations.</p>
<p>Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is to find ways to dam it up and create national parks of bigotry that will allow future generations of civil rights warriors to rough it by camping out under the burning crosses while admiring themselves for their artificial courage in defense of a manufactured cause.</p>
<p>So instead of equality, there&#8217;s diversity that opens up a door for a select few while closing the door for everyone else. Instead of merit hiring, there&#8217;s quota hiring. That means one black guy in the boardroom, one Asian woman at the meeting and one Latino guy in the White House. And that&#8217;s all you get.</p>
<p>The quota can be increased. There can be two of each in the boardroom. Or four of each. The numbers don’t really matter. What matters is that there&#8217;s a quota. Instead of bringing in people because they can do the job; they are brought in as representatives of their race, sex and creed.</p>
<p>Affirmative action doesn&#8217;t combat the glass ceiling. It is the glass ceiling. Once the quota has been met, it&#8217;s been met. The great goddess of diversity on her pedestal of Made-in-China plastic has been appeased with an offering of a multiracial photo that represents the fabric of diversity. Next year there will be another offering, but that&#8217;s it for now. And it&#8217;s all white guys from here on in.</p>
<p>The white guys will talk about diversity and the importance of bringing in new voices and points of view. They&#8217;ll even hire someone to help them fill the quotas. But when the quotas are full, then they are full.</p>
<p>Diversity creates a wonderful snafu in which there can be a black guy in the White House and double digit unemployment for other black guys. Sorry guys, the quota has been filled. There can only be one Obama. Everyone else is out of luck.</p>
<p>The double vision isn&#8217;t accidental. It looks equal, but it&#8217;s not. The game is rigged and diversity rigged it. And there&#8217;s plenty to be angry about for everyone because in a rigged game everyone has just cause to be angry; except the people on whose behalf the game has been rigged. And those people aren&#8217;t white people or black people. They are the people that the system uses to perpetuate itself.</p>
<p>The system isn&#8217;t white power or black power. It&#8217;s just the system. It&#8217;s a bunch of white guys who despise the South and wish they had a black friend, deciding which black guy to use for their diversity quota. They&#8217;re doing it for the same reason that they display books they never read and invite interesting people over for boring dinner parties. Because it makes them seem like more than the overseers of the same repressive dreary system that exists to implement unfairness for the benefit of a few.</p>
<p>So the system can fight endlessly for equality without ever coming close to achieving it because the struggle is the thing that is in the way.</p>
<p>Generations of liberals defined themselves by civil rights and visit a civil rights theme park called the Federal Government. Bigotry is always a problem. The problem is maintained so that it can be fought endlessly in the Creation Myth of the New Progressive America.</p>
<p>Finding bigotry to fight takes work. The tar sands of bigotry have to be mined in an exhausting process to uncover new forms of bigotry. Bigotry is no longer a fact, but an attitude. It is proven not by its presence, but its absence. The lack of diversity is proof of bigotry. The presence of diversity is proof of white privilege. Everything has to be unpacked and peered at under a microscope to find that precious element of hate that fuels the liberal machine.</p>
<p>Bigotry is no longer about what you do, but how other people feel about it. Discrimination is not about opportunity, but about feelings. Finally it is revealed that bigotry is present everywhere. It is a quality that pervades every economic and interpersonal interaction. As some feminists insisted that all heterosexual sex is rape, so the new theorists of white privilege insist that any interracial interaction is inherently racist.</p>
<p>And when racism and sexism alone aren&#8217;t enough, there are always new discriminated groups being discovered by the post-apocalyptic civil rights warriors of tomorrow.</p>
<p>If Jesse Jackson bleating sonorously bores you, try gay rights. Put an equal sign on your Facebook profile and you are a civil rights hero. And if old gay men stage-kissing for the front page of your soon-to-be-out-of-business local weekly bores you, try men who pretend to be women persecuted by refusing to take their pretense seriously. And there&#8217;s always your friendly neighborhood Muslim who gets unfriendly stares at the airport when he begins screaming &#8220;Allah Akbar&#8221; when asked if he&#8217;s visiting from Pakistan on business or pleasure.</p>
<p>The civil rights movement is dead. In place of any real urge for equality is a determination to perpetuate inequality in order to keep the movement going. It&#8217;s as if everyone wanted to keep the great feeling of winning WW2 alive by landing at Normandy, shelling random tourists and then invading Paris to liberate it from the Nazis while refusing to listen to the Parisians when they insist that the Nazi armies are long gone and all that&#8217;s left are a bunch of skinheads listening to bad music.</p>
<p>Inequality in the name of equality has become an institution. It has become the institution that justifies all the other institutions of government and academia. If discrimination ever disappeared beyond the ability of modern eight-wave bigotry researchers to discover it in episodes of classic television shows and random interracial interactions, then the entire modern state would simply collapse.</p>
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