The criteria for serving one's country should be competence courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation we deprive them of their rights of citizenship and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
If we're going to change the laws let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Folks the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
We need to become good citizens in the global village instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Treaties agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.