Tag Archives: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT)

The Daily Tweets 2010-12-19: News from home — DADT repealed!

Woke in Brisbane to good news from back home: #DADT repealed. Thx Sens. Begich & Murkowski. Thx also President Obama. #fb # Today in Brisbane: staying in, the Aussies resting (when they get back from grocery shopping), processing pics. #oztrip … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-12-30: DADT report

RT: @nprpolitics: Pentagon Study Dismisses Risk Of Openly Gay Troops http://n.pr/g01r1u #fb # WaPo profiles the two Pentagon authors of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ report, which is being released today. http://wapo.st/fufJO2 #fb # Pentagon’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell report will … Continue reading

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Murkowski: “I will not oppose the Defense Authorization bill if DADT repeal is part of it”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t exactly say she supported repeal of DADT. She just said she wouldn’t oppose it — so long as other conditions are met. But it’s something, at least. And there might just be enough votes to repeal DADT in December.

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Murkowski & DADT: Turn up the heat

Regardless of the outcome of the ballot-counting still in progress in Juneau in Alaska election for U.S. Senate, the incumbent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, is still Sen. Lisa Murkowski today as Congress convenes for its “lame duck” session. And it’s time … Continue reading

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President Obama on DADT

President Obama discussed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in remarks yesterday morning after his post-election press conference on November 3, 2010.

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce

RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent … Continue reading

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Overheard: Antigay pogroms in Iraq

Gay men are systematically been hunted down and killed in Iraq. Members of the LGBT Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch are trying to help, but more help is needed — from us.

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