Well, first of all, my role is to call balls and strikes and to give a voice to half or more

than half or even sometimes like 80% of the country on the issues of the day.

CNN political commentator Scott Jennings talking about his presentation at the 2025 issues,

etc., making the case conference.

I think what CNN is doing in particular with the 10 o'clock show.

It's a real debating show and you're putting people at the table who have diverse viewpoints,

including conservative viewpoints. I think our commitment to that, honestly, is good for American

political discourse. And my job is to robustly participate in that and give a whole bunch of

people out there who thought maybe the mainstream media was ignoring them or didn't care what they thought, somebody to represent, authentically represent their values.

You can meet and hear Scott Jennings making the case for an alternative voice in the mainstream media at this year's Making the Case Conference, July 18th and 19th,

at Concordia University, Chicago.

Learn more at Issuesetc.org.

Sadly, the U.S. military has been a laboratory for social experimentation for some time.

During the Obama administration, there were a lot of things tried that, well, previous military

leaders would have thought not conducive, at least not contributing to our military readiness,

and some of it over the time has proven to be, if not all of it, these social experiments to be

detrimental to our military readiness. Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd Wilkin,

joining us to talk about DEI and women in the military. Elaine Donnelly, founder and

president of the Center for Military Readiness. She formerly served on the Defense Advisory Committee

on Women in the Services and on the Presidential Commission on the assignment of women in the

Armed Forces. She's author of a recent column for the Federalist titled Military Finds Physical

Reality Shatters,

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