All posts tagged "dadt"
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Holding on to Discrimination
This past Saturday, David Rivkin, Jr., and Lee Casey – two longtime senior officials in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations – wrote in...
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Snow Impact
While most of the Washington area was checking the time for the next snowball fight or their fridge to see how much milk was left...
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Voices of Experience
From Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), many substantial questions raised at last week's hearing regarding...
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Just the Facts
WHAT: On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a ''high-level working group'' within the Department of Defense to review ''the issues associated...
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A Nation's Priorities
Noting that one in 10 Americans are without work and that millions will lose their health insurance this year, President Barack Obama gave his first...
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No More Delays
Back in the mid-1980s, with the Cold War still peaking and the idea of the fall of the Soviet Union no more than a utopian...
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Ally Beats Enemy
It's been a year – just a year, mind you – that Barack Obama has served as 44th president of the U.S. He's the first...
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Strangely Familiar
With the capture of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat — sorry, I mean the people of Massachusetts' Senate seat — by Republican Scott Brown, Washington is...
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Gay Support Missing for DADT Testimony Proposal
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment this month to help combat the military's ''Don't Ask-Don't Tell'' policy, but no openly gay member of...
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Servicemembers' Milestone
It's not every day that you get to shake hands with the president of the United States. So when Alex Nicholson got his moment with...
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Game Plan
Just 18 months after taking the helm, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) executive director Aubrey Sarvis finds his organization at the most promising crossroads in...
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The Time Has Come
The news out of Kansas really shouldn't have come as a shock. It was a new version of an old story. In February, the Kansas...
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Aubrey Sarvis, Executive Director, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
METRO WEEKLY: From your -- or your organization's -- perspective, what is the most immediate effect of the presidential election on the LGBT community? AUBREY...
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Do Tell
It was almost embarrassing to be an American at a recent Georgetown University Law Center panel titled, ''Sexual Orientation and Military Preparedness: An International Perspective.''...
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In and Out
Army Sgt. Darren Manzella could be the all-American poster boy for Army recruiting. The 30-year-old speaks softly with a polite charm that seems to reflect...
