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Analysis: Jindal lays down 2016 marker - CNN.com - 0 views

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language sense perception conservitism

shared by Bowman Benge on 25 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • t was a speech that, if condensed and delivered at 5 mph, would play well with grass-roots activists
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BBC News - Pentagon ends ban on women in front-line combat - 0 views

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gender us policy bias

shared by Bowman Benge on 24 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the military's ban on women serving in combat roles, potentially opening hundreds of thousands of frontline positions to women.
  • the president was "very pleased" with the new policy. He noted the proposal had emerged from military commanders
  • This decision could open more than 230,000 combat roles to women,
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  • "It's certainly not going to be helpful to our women in the military, or our men. It will cause enormous complications in the infantry battalions - the small tip-of-the-spear units, the ones that fight the enemy with deliberate offensive action under fire. These units are all-male for very good reasons.
  • omen comprise 14% of America's 1.4 million active military personnel.
  • the ban, arguing that it was unconstitutional.
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