Far too often, the people who choose to serve in our military are characterized as being “poor” Americans who choose to serve because they have no other choice. The conventional wisdom among media elites is that that new military recruits disproportionately come from poor areas of the country, that minority race groups are overrepresented, or that new recruits are uneducated. This is just not true. Unfortunately, Judy Woodruff perpetuated this falsehood last night when she asked John McCain: Senator … The qualifications for joining the Army have been lowered today. …
Odds are the President will veto the defense supplemental spending measure. Not only did Congress junk up the bill with lots of provisions that are not even remotely related to war costs, many of them are down right injurious to the American economy and security. Case in point is Senator Diane Feinstein’s “Emergency Agriculture Relief” Act. Apparently, Feinstein’s agricultural emergency requires granting permanent legal residence to undocumented agricultural workers. Rewarding undocumented workers with an “amnesty” for violating U.S. immigration laws would likely only encourage wide-spread fraud, more illegal border crossings, …
