TOM B. writes: Thank you for your blog. My wife and I both “survived” the divorce holocaust of the seventies. We are now ten years married, and homeschooling our four children, ages 8,7,6,6. We live in Silicon Valley, and sometimes feel like partisans in an insidious ideological war. Our life experiences made us conservative; [...]

  PENTAGON officials announced today – with a perfectly straight face, as if they were talking about serious military affairs instead of an immense public folly – that 14,000 combat-related positions will be formally opened to women this summer, pending approval by Congress. According to the LA Times, women will “serve in non-infantry battalion jobs, [...]