All posts tagged "robert gates"
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Eight Days in a Changed World
During the next eight days, efforts aimed at stopping discrimination in two of the most traditionally conservative (and heterosexual) of institutions – marriage and the...
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Counting the Votes
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the long-awaited Pentagon working group report on the implementation of a repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' will be...
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Senate Sets Pentagon DADT Report Hearings for Dec. 2 and 3
The Senate Armed Services Committee, as had been suggested in recent days, announced that it would be holding hearings in the follow-up to the Nov....
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The Senator, the Secretary and the Service Chiefs
After the U.S. Senate failed to garner the votes needed to overcome a filibuster to proceed to debate on the National Defense Authorization Act on...
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No Time to Stop
There's a strange and unsettling mood floating around these days after the shellacking delivered to Democrats by Republicans in the midterm elections. It's not unexpected,...
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No Easy Pieces
Over the past weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election – and ever-narrowing – window for the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't...
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The (Military) Brass Tacks of Lame-Duck DADT Repeal
Over the weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election landscape for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Although the decision to...
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DADT Roller Coaster
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit put a temporary hold on the injunction against enforcement of the...
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Pentagon Revises DADT Discharge Procedures [UPDATED]
Discharges under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will now take the approval of the service branch secretary, and only in consultation with the...
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DADT Ruling Fallout
For further developments on this story, check Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.As the breadth of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order halting all...
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Nearly 128 Hours Later …
At 2:30 p.m. PT Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips will hold a hearing to determine whether the government is correct that the “Don’t...
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Twenty-Four Hours Without DADT
For more than 24 hours, the United States has been constrained from enforcing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although CNN is reporting that...
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“Values Voters” and Attacks on DADT Repeal
D.C.’s Omni Shoreham Hotel was, this weekend, the site of the “Value Voters Summit” — a place where Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and former Gov....
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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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DADT Talks at White House and on Hill
Following a morning in which meetings were held at the White House and on Capitol Hill regarding legislative efforts to end the ''Don't Ask, Don't...
