This past week President Barack Hussein Obama stood at the podium in the White House Press Briefing Room, speaking of his recent commutation of Private Bradley Manning’s prison sentence: "It has been my view that given, she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime.” Manning’s actions, the leaks of classified information, his prison sentence and the commutation are distractions from the real story. These provide a smokescreen for the earthshaking actual story which rests upon two simple three letter words. Two meek little pronouns: she and her. This was the first time a United States president referred to a man as a she and her and nobody laughed. Nobody in the press room dared laugh. The gathered erudite, the urbane, the sophisticated sat silent. Those humble little pronouns were not humble. They were bold and brazen. The president, the nation’s commander-in-chief, weaponized them; against...(Read Full Article)