February 13th, 2010

Gay Troops and the Trouble With Polls

Nathaniel Frank
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Remember the major poll taken of enlisted personnel asking them if they felt like invading Iraq?  read more »

January 14th, 2010

A New Pentagon Strategy on Gays

Aaron Belkin
preview After Senator Carl Levin announced yesterday that he would hold hearings on "don't ask, don't tell," anti-gay forces in the Pentagon responded immediately. Levin was sending a strong signal that both the White House and Congress are ready to move forward with plans to repeal the gay ban, so the Pentagon needed to move quickly.

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December 22nd, 2009

"We're here to defend democracy, not to practice it."

Guest Blogger
preview  (This post submitted by Christian Leuprecht) Implicit in this claim is the proposition is an allegedly inherent contradiction: That mounting an effective defence of the democratic way of life and its fundamental values of freedom, equality, and justice requires undemocratic practices that skirt these values.
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