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Should our military consult with white supremacist groups when revising policies against racial discrimination?Should it call the Westboro Baptist Church as it deals with the repercussions of repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"?Or should it bring in Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones to consult as it continues its outreach to the Muslim world?Obviously not. And if generals of any branch of the military met with these groups, we'd question their good faith and their understanding of the law. Yet the Air Force has been meeting with a bigot every bit as obscene, every bit as hateful as any of the individuals or groups discussed above. That bigot is named Michael "Mikey" Weinstein, the founder of the inappropriately-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and his rhetoric against Christians if every bit as poisonous as the rhetoric of acknowledged hate groups.Don't believe me? In just one recent column in the Huffington Post he called Evangelical Christians – many of whom serve in the...
Religious freedom in the armed forces may be at risk
Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty’s Dr. Ron Crews addresses his concerns
Man takes items from store called 'Finders Keepers'
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits...
A mental illness advocacy group wants the Pentagon to award Purple Hearts to those affected with post-traumatic stress disorder. The National Alliance on Mental Il...
With a March 1 deadline looming for Congress to once again strike a deal in order to avoid $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts -- including $500 billion at the ...
Why Tony Shaffer's new book on the Afghan war sent the Department of Defense in a tailspin
A report released by the Pentagon says the number of reported sexual assaults at the nation's three major military academies rose in the latest academic year from on...
The Pentagon held internal talks on declassifying sensitive missile defense technology that it plans to share with Russia as part of the Obama administration's effor...
After weeks of debate and number-crunching, the Defense Department announced plans Tuesday to furlough about 680,000 of its civilian employees for 11 days through th...
U.S. military officials say the Defense Department leaders trying to find ways to deal with mandatory budget cuts are poised to trim the number of civilian furlough ...
Senior lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee are asking the Pentagon to consider breaking ties with a mega-U.S. defense contractor over concerns about its...
The sequester has been law for almost two years. But the Pentagon's delayed planning for implementing it has now made it easier for Congress to keep massive defense ...
The Pentagon plans to bring warfare into the 22nd century, creating a new system to "map" the digital battlefield of cyberspace, defining a playbook for deploying cy...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an ack...
An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea.Def...
Tensions rise on immigration. Benghazi probe spurs first 2016 campaign ad. Plus - Virginia backlog gets attention.
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack...
With the recent death of Usama bin Laden, the life of another Al Qaeda-linked radical Muslim cleric is taking on greater significance, and documents obtained exclusi...