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Phoenixville News: Huge Issues Hang on 2008 Election
It is time for all Americans to think seriously about the issues and problems facing our country and stop listening to the media uproar around personalities and smear tactics on all sides of the political spectrum. ...Read More
Wilamette Week: Ask Not
It seems like a good time to revisit “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s policy of banning openly gay and lesbian recruits from active service enacted as a compromise by President Clinton in 1993. ...Read More
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
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
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
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
Dallas Voice: Viewpoint—A Choice I Respect
Joe Biden might not have been favored pick by many, but he's a lot better than some options. ...Read More
Chicago Tribune: Excluding gays
Elaine Donnelly's argument for the exclusion of gays in the military seems to rest on the assumption that straight soldiers are both incapable of controlling their impulses, either hostile or libidinal, and could not bear up under the strain of possibly being viewed as sexual objects. ...Read More
Tomah Journal: Editorial: Critic of gays in the military undermines own cause
When the history of gays in the military is written, Elaine Donnelly might go down as a person who did more than any other to shatter the barrier that keeps homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. ...Read More
