Was the man Susan Rice says "served ... with honor and distinction" a deserter?

Soldier from Bergdahl's unit, writing in The Daily Beast:

After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team received an order that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to Bergdahl for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth. 

And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.

Read more here.

In Defense of Women: Pay no attention to those reports of sexual harassment in the military

... men and women are interchangeable
men and women are interchangeable
men and women are interchangeable
men and ...

Oh. Excuse me. I was right in the middle of my daily progressivist chant, a discipline I regularly practice in order to keep certain truths firmly planted in my consciousness so that I don't begin to doubt them on account of, well, you know, the actual evidence.

I have had to be particularly intentional about it over the last week or so because of the spate of news stories about women in the military, where it makes it sound as if it is not the Shangri-La we all know it to be.

According to these reports, sexual harassment is rampant. But this just can't be.

I mean, if men and women are really the same, and we know this to be true according to our liberal ideology, then how can sexual harassment be such a problem in the military? Sexual harassment wasn't a problem when only men were in close contact for extended periods of time with men; so why is it a problem now that men are in close contact for long periods of time with women?

Here is the Huffington Post on the alleged problem:

According to the most recent report by the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, 3,192 sexual assaults were reported out of an estimated 19,000 -- roughly 52 a day -- between Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 31, 2011. The department estimates that only roughly 14 percent of the assaults were reported. The majority of sexual assaults each year are committed against service members by service members, SAPRO reports. While MSA does not affect only women, the office characterizes the "vast majority" of victims as female junior enlists under the age of 25, and the "vast majority" of perpetrators as male, older (under the age of 35) and generally higher-ranking.

Are we really supposed to believe that practically all the sexual harassment charges are by women against men--not men against women? We know this can't be in a world where everyone is equal. Next thing you know people will start suggesting that women are more likely than men to be raped when taken prisoner.

Right. Like we're going to believe that.

We all know that even when it gets down to the dust and sweat and blood of the battlefield, there are limits that even the most barbaric enemy would never transgress. Women in combat may have to contend with on the battlefield is being shot or blown up, but thank God the enemy would never even think to pinch them on the bottom.

Besides, wouldn't that violate the Geneva Convention or something?

Poisonous gas attacks our gals can handle. Let's just be thankful they will never be the target of unwelcome sexual remarks.

Sure, the enemy will use guns, mortars, grenades, and rockets. But create a hostile work environment? Even they wouldn't stoop to that.

Let's just all pray that America's military, staffed increasingly by what some people apparently think is the "weaker sex," might not be brought to its knees by the threat of being winked at.

Simper Fi.

UPDATE: For the functionally illiterate, there is a further explanation of this post here.

More evidence of crisis of mentally fragile atheists

We have reported before on this blog about the weakening mental fortitude of many contemporary atheists, who are apparently so weakly constituted that the have a mental breakdown when confronted with religion. Christians don't seem to be any the worse for the fact that they have to live in an increasingly secular culture, but atheists, on the other hand, seem to have become so psychologically tender (perhaps through intellectual inbreeding), that they cannot seem to handle the mere mention of religion.

Last we heard, an atheist group was suing the state of Kentucky for having mention of the word "God" in its Homeland Security law, claiming it caused them "mental pain and anguish."

The most recent case of athiests is that of an atheist at West Point who has resigned from the school because it was too religious there. Even though West Point does not mandate any kind of religious activities, Blake Page claims it does. But it appears that he just doesn't like the fact that so many of the students there were religious and disagreed with him. At least the story in the Lexington Herald-Leader doesn't mention anything much more than this.

Worse still the ... Foundation is calling Blake's act of running away from those mean ol' religious people who don't believe like he does an "act of sacrifice." Ironically, Page's "act of sacrifice" came "after he was notified he would not be commissioned in the Army because of a medical issue related to clinical depression."

"Act of sacrifice." Mmhmm.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: They just don't make atheists like they use to.