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Re: A Single Standard for Combat Readiness

“Women definitely do not belong in combat. If you have two male soldiers and one female soldier, you will not have three soldiers. No, you will have only one and a half soldiers because the female will freak out after the first shot and one of the males, due to instinct, will be distracted by trying to help her, leaving himself as only one-half of a useful soldier. Sorry, girls, but that’s the truth.” —Pennsylvania

Re: Is Democracy Dying in France?

“Here is a lesson for minority parties: Do not accept government funding for anything. ‘When money goes [through the government], it picks up glue and comes back with strings,’ and one of those strings is the possibility of being charged with misuse of the funds, even if it was spent according to the rules. (The quote is adapted from an observation by former Representative Gil Gutknecht, R-MN).” —Minnesota

Re: Trump Axes Union Rights for NatSec Agencies

“Federal government unions must be abolished. Fire and police are usually under state or local hiring control. That being said, Trump can only mandate federal hiring. If federal hires don’t like this arrangement, then let them quit and go to state, local, or private organizations.” —Montana

Re: Trump Goes All in on Tariffs

“Trump is out of office in three years and nine months, and economies often take longer than that to reinvent themselves. Why would companies start moving production back to the U.S. during a flatlined economy when the next administration is likely to lift all the Trump tariffs and go back to kissing China’s ring? Seems like the grandiose wishful thinking of a narcissist who believes everything he does lives in perpetuity. Like Thomas, I hope I’m wrong.” —Oklahoma

Re: Donald Trump’s Greenland Gambit

“We’ll probably have to settle for added military bases, fees for simple purchases of resource claims, and an agreement with Denmark to shut out ownership of any part of Greenland or its resources by China, Iran, Russia, or their proxies. President Trump’s opponents at home and abroad are having a fit over supposed intentions of a ‘military conquest’ of Greenland, but that’s not a realistic fear. Congress would have to declare war, and that would fracture NATO, which is still useful to us.” —Minnesota

Re: The Tortuous Truth About Tort Law

“I’m sick of the eco-nuts who sue over a blade of grass or a weird snail. The eye and settle mob is just as bad. The taxpayer ends up with the bill. They should be sued for all the windmill blades that can’t be recycled and for the birds they have killed.” —Wisconsin

“As I recall, before ObamaCare, the biggest driver of healthcare costs was medical malpractice insurance. Of all the components of American healthcare that ObamaCare took over to ostensibly reform, the most important thing that wasn’t reformed were medical malpractice lawsuits of the class-action variety that cost the insurance industry and doctors billions of dollars. Additionally, doctors order more tests and procedures to ensure that they aren’t sued. The medical malpractice trial lawyer-industrial complex was in bed with the Democrats in Congress to block any attempts at reform. Once ObamaCare was passed into law, any public debate ended.” —California

“Frivolous lawsuits won’t go away until they come with a downside risk. People won’t be filing crapshoot cases looking to get paid to go away if there’s a good chance of getting stuck with your opponent’s legal fees and court costs. In addition to reasonable limits on damages, a loser-pays system makes sense to curb abuse. To address complaints of that system locking out the poor, in cases where lawyers work for ‘contingency fees,’ make the losing lawyer pay.” —Idaho