Rah rah ROTC. Writing in the Chicago Free Press (April 9), Paul Varnell argues that the military isn’t going to become gay friendly on its own. “The effect of banishing ROTC and military recruiting by the most liberal, gay-accepting colleges and universities was to increase the proportion of recruits and young officers who are less accepting of gays, whose college experience was unlikely to counter negative views of gays, and who do not want gays in the military….
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Why tax cutting has nothing to do with tax relief. According to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities study released April 10, “In 2001, the last year for which income data are available, a median family of four will pay a smaller share of its income in federal income taxes than in any year since 1957.”
In this next sequence, observe how Jesus removes Bambi’s pancreas. U.S. Catholic (May) reports on a book by Tom Rakov, Self-Inflicted Hunting Arguments, in which Rakov, the founder of the Christian Deer Hunters Association, concludes, “The authentic Jesus Christ revealed in the Bible would not only shoot a deer, but He would know how to field-dress it in a respectful manner and be willing to eat it.”
