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The Quad: A requiem for a flip-flop
In the 2004 presidential election, the republicans were successful in painting Democratic nominee John Kerry as a notorious flip-flopper-I know, four years ago…who remembers that? ...Read More
Marine Corps News: Recruiting Looking Good for Marines
WASHINGTON - Even without offering big cash bonuses, promising opportunities for college or assuring a better life after service, the Marine Corps anticipates meeting its five-year force-growth goal two years early, the commander of Marine recruiting said via teleconference from his headquarters in Quantico, Va. ...Read More
Vital Voice: EXCLUSIVE: Q&A with Tobias Wolff
Tobias Barrington Wolff is the Co-Chair, National LGBT Policy Committee, Obama for America '08 and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He writes and teaches in the fields of Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Conflict of Laws. He began his teaching career at the University of California , Davis Law School and has been a visiting professor at Stanford and Northwestern Law Schools. ...Read More
Victor Maldonado: DADT and Presidential Politics
This Saturday's Washington Post offers up an important reminder that in this year's presidential elections, there are serious policy (as opposed to personality) differences between John McCain and Barack Obama. In an editorial, the Post's writers sound off on one of the major policy differences between the two men: repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." ...Read More
Newsday: Obama visit spurs ROTC debate at NY’s Columbia U.
NEW YORK - Barack Obama's opposition to Columbia University's ban on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has touched off a campus debate. ...Read More
Columbia Spectator: CCSC Unveils Student Referendum Process
A surprise item at Sunday night’s Columbia College Student Council meeting could pave the way for student referendums on controversial issues including the presence of Reserve Officers Training Corps on campus. ...Read More
College On The Record: To Be or Not to Be? Debating the Merits of ROTC
At last week's presidential forum, both candidates unsurprisingly spoke in favor of allowing ROTC back on Columbia's campus. What was surprising was a piece in today's Spectator announcing that the student councils and several other groups are working to have a referendum to gauge student opinion on this issue. Debates and town halls will certainly go down soon, but here is some food for thought until then ...Read More
Marty Peretz: Obama: Right on ROTC
Barack Obama has once again disappointed a core group of his enthusiasts. It happened at Columbia University open forum where both he and Senator McCain spoke and which attracted some 7500 students. In the ordinary course of events, McCain came out for reinstating ROTC as a program on the Columbia campus and under the jurisdiction of the Columbia faculty. He was roundly booed. What would you expect. ...Read More
GLAAD: LGBT town hall forum at University of Mississippi to precede first presidential debate
Oxford, MS, September 15, 2008 - In advance of the first 2008 Presidential Debates taking place at the University of Mississippi, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocates will be participating in a Town Hall Forum organized by the Gay Straight Alliance at the University of Mississippi. ...Read More
Advocate.com: Ma’am, Would You Care for Some Facts With That?
Judging from her congressional testimony, Elaine Donnelly may be the most strident civilian opponent of lifting "don’t ask, don’t tell." Too bad her reasons for keeping the policy in place aren’t sound. ...Read More
