If Republicans believe openly gay service is a threat to national security, shouldn't they fight to reinstate the ban? And if they were wrong in that belief, shouldn't they be forced to say so?
The United States and the world are facing critical decisions and continued turbulent times. This election will help determine our destiny and we need President Obama there for another four years.
Why do social conservatives have so much trouble seeing equality as equality, insisting every time a besieged minority finally gains equal treatment that they're getting an unfair privilege?
As a young gay soldier who served between the ages of 17 and 22, DADT forced me to live a life that was defined by a fear of being open about my sexuality.
No single individual or organization brought about the tremendous feat of dismantling "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). In the best military tradition, repeal was a team accomplishment.
My understanding is that the campaign plan for 2012 is still in formation. But one critical element is clear. The campaign will be even more reliant than it was in 2008 on its grass roots ground game. Jim Messina is definitely the man for that job.
Reality isn't always what it seems, dear one. When you are tempted to lament or exclaim over good and bad luck, consider saying, "Maybe," and wait to see what happens.
WASHINGTON -- The repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperi...
The entire controversy surrounding Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the unconstitutional policy that the Obama administration has repeatedly denounced while def...
If people want to know what's keeping the wallets of progressive donors shut, it's not because change isn't happening "fast enough." Its because they want Democrats to respect core Democratic values, not give excuses.
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust said that ROTC will be welcome on campus once it repeals "don't ask, don't tell," the Boston Globe repo...
The best option for the gay rights community is to adjust its goals immediately and work with Congress to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" while allowing the Pentagon the flexibility to manage implementation as it sees fit.
If you listen to the god-fearing, unreconstructed defenders of American exceptionalism, then you already know that world ended when health care reform passed. But why do things seem the same?
If there's one lesson we should have learned in the debate over gay service, it's that "don't ask, don't tell" was never about military effectiveness. It was a moral and political abuse of power, propped up by a ban on speaking truth to that power.
In announcing today that it would make it harder to fire gay troops under existing policy, the Pentagon took a major step towards ending Don't Ask Don't Tell which could have a real impact on the lives of service members.
Because he "could not tell a lie," a gay General Washington would have been obliged to turn himself in. Under current policy, Congress would have sent him packing back to Mt. Vernon.
This is an unsettling time in our country and it doesn't help that the news is freely spun from no truth. The sensationalistic spin and full-frontal ...
Despite the military's move to relax and soon do away with "don't ask, don't tell," repeal in Congress is in grave peril. Obama should repeal the misguided policy through the 2011 Defense Authorization bill.
Like every other corporate-controlled 'journalist' who's ever interviewed Cheney, Karl never confronted him on the accusations of un-Constitutional acts that have been lodged against him.
Admiral Mullen wears his uniform, because he is a leader, and that's what Admiral Mullen decided to be in that hearing today when he took a decisive stand on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Last night, President Obama gave the strongest signal yet that he is serious about seeing the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law repealed, and soon. In his first SOTU, amid a highly charged political environment.