The Army’s Wrong-Headed (and Discriminatory) “Spiritual Fitness Test”

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Mike

It’s hard to believe that the U.S. Army has something known as the “Spiritual Fitness Test.”  According to an NPR report, Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, director of something called “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness,” supposedly found data that “spiritual fitness has a positive impact on quality of life, on coping and on mental health.”  Since that “finding,” the [...]

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State Department Backslides on Passport Application Change that Benefits Gay Rights

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Mike

Last week, I wrote about the State Department change to passport application forms that improved gender equality.  Instead of having boxes on the form for “Mother” and “Father,” the boxes would now say “Parent 1″ and “Parent 2.”  Obviously, applicants with same-sex parents could not fill out the old form accurately.  They would be forced [...]

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“Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry”

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Mike

To coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a paper titled Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry.  The paper concerns the exploitation of mostly undocumented immigrant women who work in the U.S. food industry and is based upon interviews with 150 women.  The women [...]

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Defense Secretary Gates’ Bogus Statements on Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Mike

I’ve always suspected that Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ statement that he supported the elimination of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was very possibly bogus.  His coupling of his supposed support for elimination of the policy didn’t quite jibe with his repeated emphasis on the supposed need for a full year of study by the Pentagon.  In [...]

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A Conservative-dominated National Commission is Expected to Propose Raising the Social Security Age to 70

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Mike

In 1983, the Social Security retirement age was raised from 65 to 67.  (67 is the full retirement age for people born after 1960.)  On December 1 of this year, the  National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is expected to issue a report that will propose raising the full retirement age from 67 to [...]

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Target Under Fire for Anti-Gay Donations

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Emily

It was only last December that the HRC released its “Buy For Equality” report on corporate equality practices, highlighting Target’s 100% rating on LGBTQ rights. But now the gay rights group has issued a clear repudiation of the retail giant, calling on them to seriously reevaluate their donation policies, or lose all support of “fair-minded [...]

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Few Women in Senior Levels of Federal Work Force

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Mike

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just issued a new report on the percentages of workers in the federal work force.  Overall, women make up 44.1 percent of all workers.  This is up only slightly from the 42.3 percent in 2000.  However, the number of women in the highest pay levels among civil servants [...]

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The Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Survey

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Mike

I have written a number of posts about the attempt to eliminate the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.  In my view, President Obama and Congress should simply have defunded enforcement of the policy and, thus, effectively ended it while the far more more difficult elimination of the law unfolded slowly though Congress.  That, of course, [...]

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Walden Two

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Mike

I recently reread the 1948 book Walden Two by B.F. Skinner.  This was the (sort of) novel that posited an experimental utopian community based on Skinner’s behavioral psychologist beliefs.  I wanted to reread the book because I had a vague recollection that, when I first read the book many years ago, it had had a [...]

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The 28th Anniversary of the Expiration of the Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Mike

I’m a few days late on this, but June 30 marked the 28th anniversary of the demise of the attempt to have 38 states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.  Here’s a quick summary. The language for the ERA was drafted by Alice Paul in 1923.  It was introduced in every Congressional session between 1923 and [...]

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