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Blog Entries by Aubrey Sarvis from 01/2010

Mr. President, Lead the Way to End Discrimination in the Military

| Posted 01.12.2010 | Politics
Read More: Gays in the Military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama White House, US Military, Senator Levin, Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Roll Call, Obama Don't Ask Don't Tell, Defense Department Budget, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Armed Services Committee, Politics News

This is the moment for the President to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." If Obama fails to seize it, many young LGBT service members will surely be fired, careers ruined.

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MLK Jr., Civil Rights, DADT and the Urgency of Leading

| Posted 01.18.2010 | Politics
Read More: Vermont Street Baptist Church, Proposition 8, Atlanta, Rep. Ike Skelton, Dadt Repeal, Ted Olsen, President Obama, Maureen Dowd, Martin Luther King Day, David Boies, House Armed Services Committee, Kansas City Star, Politics News

Yesterday the president said, "The urgency of the hour demands that we fight discrimination, whatever form it may come." He's said the same thing more times than I can count. Martin Luther King Jr. talked the talk. He also walked the walk.

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After State of the Union, Gates and Mullen Charge the Hill

| Posted 01.28.2010 | Politics
Read More: House Minority Leader John Boehner, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Pat Buchanan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Defense Authorization Bill, Senator McCain, Rep. Joe Sestak, President Obama, Senate Armed Services Committee, Sotu, State of the Union, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, Politics News

The Senate Armed Services Committee will soon hear what Defense Secretary Robert Gates and JCS Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen think about repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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