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...enlistees sign up with a fingerprint or the equivalent of a scrawled X. Yet the Obama strategy for Afghanistan envisions an indigenous military that will soon be able to take over security from its American and international mentors. How can a largely illiterate army plan the complex logistics that allow soldiers to be clothed, armed, fed and transported where they are needed? While Afghan soldiers are undeniably brave on the battlefield, their skills with anything other than basic tactics and small-to-medium firearms are limited. One frustrated American trainer of Afghan soldiers confided to me that his Afghan mortar...
Note: Nine states appear twice; they allow civil unions or other rights but prohibit same-sex marriages...
...Mexico, New York and Rhode Island neither specifically prohibit nor allow same-sex marriages or unions...
...California's stance on gay marriage is settled in a courtroom, it won't be the first state to go that route. In three of the five states that allow such unions, marriage rights were ultimately granted from the bench, not by popular vote or legislation. No state that now sanctions gay marriage has legalized it via referendum...
...continues today. One of the possible changes the Census is testing during the 2010 count is allowing respondents to check more than one box not just for race but for Hispanic origin as well. A popular rally cry during the push to allow multiple races was, Why should a person with one black parent and one white parent be forced to choose between them? Indeed, why should a person with a Hispanic mother and non-Hispanic father be any different...