Captain Pete Hegseth speaks out to congress about Elena Kagan
You may have noticed I have been offline for quite awhile. This is the result of a vacation, schoolwork, family concerns, and other distractions. But I am still alive.
Given that the Kagan appointment to the US Supreme Court is basically a forgone conclusion, here is something I feels needs maximum publicity. A Massachusetts National Guard (and Harvard student) speaks out against Kagan, offering one of the most eloquent rebuttals to her nomination yet. His focus is Kagan's refusal (in violation of Federal law) to allow military recruiters at Harvard during her tenure as dean. Obstensibly her reason was in protest of the miltiary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy (which excludes openly homosexual people from military service).
A couple highlights from his testimony:
1. Not only has Ms. Kagan has shown hostility toward recruitment, she is replacing the only remaining veteran on the court.
2. Ms. Kagan continuously claims that military recruitment went up during her tenure. Even if true (and I have doubts about that), it happened in spite of her efforts, not because of anything she did.
3. The "don't ask, don't tell" policy was not written by the military anyway, but in fact by President Clinton, whom Ms. Kagan went to work for.
4. Ms. Kagan allowed Harvard to accept several endowments from Saudi Arabia, a country that executes homosexuals, yet she considered "don't ask, don't tell" to be an "injustice of the highest order".
