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Entries by Aubrey Sarvis from 10/2009

Fresh Breeze Blowing in the Pentagon

| Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Read More: Gays in the Military, National War College, Elaine Donnelly, Boston Globe, Department of Defense, Col. Om Prakash, Joint Forces Quarterly, Defense Secretary William Perry, Gao Report, Dadt, New York Times, Admiral Mike Mullen, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Elizabeth Bumiller, Jfq, Politics News

An Air Force colonel's new article is the closest we've ever come to recognition by an official Pentagon publication that "don't ask, don't tell" has got to go, and go soon.

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It's Chow Time at the White House, Brother

| Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Read More: Elaine Donnelly, Politico, David Wochner, Senator Richard Russell, General Omar Bradley, President Obama, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, Admiral Mike Mullen, Anderson Cooper 360, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Victor Fehrenbach, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Military-Readiness-Enhancement-Act, Victory Fund, National Equality March, LGBT Community, Joint Force Quarterly, John King, Jon Stewart, Col. Om Prakash, Dadt, President Truman, Sldn, Joint Chiefs Chairman, General James Jones, National Security Adviser, Saturday Night Live, US Military Desegregation, State of the Union, William Gladstone, Politics News

What gays and lesbians are looking for -- and will be marching for on Sunday -- is nothing special, and that's exactly the point. It's what every other American already has: equal treatment under the law

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Rousing Speech, Mr. President, But the Pressure Continues

| Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Equality March, Lgbt, Congress, Human Rights Campaign, Senate, Timeline, President Obama, Politics News

The president, fresh from his Nobel Prize for Peace, didn't mention anything about a timeline for ending don't ask, don't tell, and as he has said on other occasions, nothing happens in Washington without a timeline.

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