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Don't Ask…..Don't Care

December 10, 2010

After Bob Gates and Admiral Mullen testified so powerfully a few days ago in favor of the military ending it's discriminatory policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell……and after each of the military service commanders testified that they would make ending DADT work….I figured that Republican Senators would go along with military leaders and endorse the [...]

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Enforcing Rush's Commandment

September 22, 2010

Yesterday, all Republican Senators voted to block the Military Authorization Bill from being debated in the Senate. Two Democratic Senators, Pryor and Lincoln, both from Arkansas, joined the Republicans. The final vote to move the bill to the floor for debate was 56-43. Democrat Harry Reid, in a procedural vote which will allow him to [...]

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Don't Tell

May 31, 2010

Don't tell us what to do. That's what U.S. military leadership is telling the U.S. House of Representatives in light of the House's recent vote to end the discriminatory policy of "don't ask, don't tell." Generally, I have high regard for the U.S. military. But not in this case. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs [...]

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I Asked, He Told

June 9, 2009

From yesterday's Washington Post…. The Supreme Court today declined to hear a constitutional challenge to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. military, a move that could effectively leave it to the Obama administration to resolve the long-controversial issue. …… In the "don't ask, don't tell" [...]

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