The Left’s War on Children and Veterans Day Healthcare Policy

On Veterans Day, November 11, 2022, Kim Monson honors America’s veterans while examining critical issues affecting children and military healthcare. The broadcast brings together Joni Inman of the Colorado Women’s Alliance, essayist Rick Turnquist discussing his piece “The Left’s War on Children,” and West Point graduate Pam Long exposing dangerous patterns in veteran healthcare policy.

Post-Election Analysis and Women Voters

Start listening at 14:38 – Hour 1

Joni Inman, Executive Director of the Colorado Women’s Alliance, analyzes the 2022 election results and charts a path forward for conservative women. The Alliance endorsed 21 candidates this cycle, with five achieving victory including Rose Pugliese for the State House and Bobby Daniels for Mesa County Commissioner.

Inman emphasizes the critical importance of reaching swing women voters who comprise 55 percent of Colorado’s registered active voters. She proposes conducting focus groups throughout the state in 2023 to understand what motivates women who cross party lines rather than vote straight ticket. This demographic research could reshape Republican outreach strategies.

“We need to find out from those voters who aren’t in the political world day in and day out like you and I are. They drop into vote and then they go on with their lives. That’s the demographic that we want to talk to.”

Joni Inman, Executive Director, Colorado Women’s Alliance

The Left’s Assault on America’s Children

Start listening at 29:40 – Hour 1

Rick Turnquist examines the cultural forces threatening American children in his essay “The Left’s War on Children.” Having recently relocated to Oklahoma from Colorado, Turnquist contrasts the two states’ political climates while analyzing the progressive infrastructure that has captured educational institutions.

Turnquist traces how 1960s activists like Bill Ayers and Mike Klonsky transitioned from radical politics into education professorships, systematically influencing K-12 curriculum and teacher training programs. He recommends Barry Rubin’s book “Silent Revolution” for understanding how the left achieved cultural dominance. The discussion examines abortion policy extremism, gender ideology in schools, and the physical harm caused by so-called gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

“Public schools are leftist indoctrination centers. And that’s by intention, it’s by design.”

Rick Turnquist, Author and Political Commentator

Military Healthcare and the Polypharmacy Crisis

Start listening at 69:43 – Hour 2

Pam Long, West Point graduate and former Army Medical Service Corps captain, exposes alarming patterns in military healthcare on this Veterans Day broadcast. Long draws parallels between the 2001 anthrax vaccine mandate and current COVID vaccine policies, noting that the Department of Defense cannot legally mandate experimental vaccines under the Doe v. Rumsfeld precedent.

Long presents devastating statistics on veteran suicide: 20 veterans die by suicide daily, with 47 percent of active duty suicides occurring in service members with zero deployments. Since the Pentagon’s 2006 policy shift favoring SSRI medications over cognitive behavioral therapy, annual veteran suicides have exceeded 6,000. A VA study found service members using an average of six prescribed drugs, with some taking up to 19 medications simultaneously.

Comparing U.S. and U.K. treatment approaches reveals stark differences: the U.K. chose cognitive behavioral therapy in 2005 while the Pentagon embraced SSRIs. By 2018, the U.K. reported 75 veteran suicides annually compared to America’s 6,139. Long argues this constitutes evidence of systemic over-medication causing a suicide epidemic.

“We are causing this suicide epidemic with a prescription drug epidemic. There is a need, a deep need for polypharmacy screening where we look at how many drugs are you on, how many can you be removed from, how many are interacting.”

Pam Long, Former Army Captain, U.S. Military Academy Graduate