All posts tagged "military"
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Cammermeyer Named to Pentagon Panel
In the scope of the near-daily developments regarding the future of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, this week – following the congressional votes...
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News Analysis: Four Days That Shook DADT (UPDATED)
In the 96 hours between Monday morning, May 24, and Thursday evening, May 27, America may have seen the most deft legislative accomplishment of the...
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One Vote Down, Several (Votes and More) to Go
The Senate Armed Services Committee passed, on a 16-12 vote, the compromise language reached earlier this week intended to lead to the repeal of the...
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Discretion Required
A leading gay critic of the administration's progress on LGBT issues called the compromise language unveiled this week for ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' a ''conditional...
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Digging Into DADT Details (UPDATED)
After the White House signaled its approval of a ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' repeal compromise on the evening of May 24, organizations, activists and members...
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White House Signals Support
In a two-paragraph statement devoid of the strong arguments for the repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy that have been made by repeal...
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Line in the Sand
Six-pack abs. Simulated sex acts. Glow-sticks and choreography. But then, camouflage everywhere. Weapons. Even armored vehicles. Then, shower scenes. A creepy, dimly lit, urinal-peeping scene....
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Fighting Back
The difficulties of having a bill to repeal the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy considered by a committee whose chairman said only in January that...
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Howard Dean on DADT Repeal [video]
Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean joined more than 100 people in Lafayette Park on Sunday, May 2, at a rally organized...
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Looking for Leadership on DADT
From an appearance by former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean to six civilians who chained themselves to the White House fence, pressure...
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Get Rational
Get Equal, which specializes in direct actions like heckling our allies with demands for Total Equality Right Now, has at least one like-minded boor in...
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To Vote or Not to Vote
The White House this afternoon called a report claiming that the White House was telling House members not to hold a vote on repealing the...
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The Politics of Repeal
Calling the changes to the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy a ''great improvement'' that supportive members of Congress had ''been urging them to do,''...
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Pentagon Tries Making DADT ''Fairer'' (UPDATED)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen announced this morning at a Pentagon news briefing changes...
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Murphy's Law?
On Friday afternoon, March 19, a day before he was to be the keynote speaker at the 18th Annual National Dinner of the Servicemembers Legal...
