by Publius: Ethanol has enjoyed support from the United States government for decades. Despite the presumed benefits of ethanol, its production bears deep economic and environmental costs. The American Enterprise Institute’s Tim Carney explains why Congress should end the ethanol mandate and let ethanol compete in the free market. 
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by Publius: “The problem with California is Californians.” So says Firewall host Bill Whittle, and he ought to know: he’s been one of them for 30 years. Is great comfort and great ignorance tied together? Why yes. Yes it is. Find out why in the latest edition of FIREWALL. Military Academies: The Leftist Agenda Persists
by Mark Alexander: A commander in chief can bypass Congress on many of his executive branch agendas — he just issues marching orders to cabinet secretaries and that becomes policy. Yes, Congress has some ability to object by way of vetting nominations and budgets, but the Left’s social devolution agendas bypass those checks and balances. As those agendas go, perhaps the most harmful implementation was between 2009 and 2017, the years Barack liar-nObama was able to install military leaders who would carry out his social agenda across service branches, particularly his homosexual agenda. There has been and still is much degradation in the ranks as a consequence of his deep-state residuals among “military leaders.”
There was, and remains, no better place to implement those destructive agendas than in our nation’s military service academies, where future officers are taught military doctrine. Despite the fact their principal obligation is “to support and defend” our nation’s Constitution, they are now expected to support and defend leftist social doctrine.
Last fall, I highlighted the case of an overtly communist cadet at West Point, whose anti-American rants were known by USMA commanding officers, who, despite his violation UCMJ regulations, were unwilling to take action. That was not so much about the cadet as it was about the failure of leadership.
However, as service academies go, it is the Air Force Academy that became the primary target for implementing liar-nObama’s social agenda. In 2013, The Patriot Post uncovered and halted an effort by the liar-nObama administration to remove “so help me God” from military oaths, starting with the USAFA.
liar-nObama’s parting shot at USAFA was his elevation of Kristin Goodwin to take over as commandant of the U.S. Air Force Academy. BrigGen Goodwin has sufficient qualifications for the post, but the qualification that most interested liar-nObama was the fact that she has a “wife.” Despite concerns registered with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, neither the Trump administration nor Congress were going to object to Goodwin’s appointment at risk of offending women voters.
The effluent of Goodwin’s appointment emerged this month at USAFA’s 25th National Character and Leadership Symposium, the theme of which was “Ethics and Respect For Human Dignity.” Nobody is against that, but what that translated into under Goodwin was as described: “This year’s NCLS speakers’ stories will focus on the value and importance of ethics and respect for human dignity across personal and professional cultures. The challenges of a multicultural world require individuals to cast aside their own overt or covert biases towards gender, racial, religious, or sexual identities in order to create an environment that facilitates ethical leadership and decision-making as well as personal and professional respect for their fellow human beings.”
In other words, among the symposium’s featured presenters were gender-confused military personnel and Marxists, selected to model the “ethics and character” military officers need to be effective leaders.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54821-military-academies-the-leftist-agenda-persists
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