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'Don't Ask Don't Tell' is Officially History
Via The Washington Post
It’s over: The United States Army has become the first branch of the armed services to formally end its “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. An announcement is expected for tomorrow, but my Post colleague Ed O’Keefe obtained the actual document sent to soldiers around the globe today announcing the change:
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I stand with Planned Parenthood
In case you haven't head this week the House voted to strip Planned Parenthood of its Title X funding in the GOP and Tea Party's latest assault on women and women's rights. Title X is part of the Public Health Services Act and is a US government program providing family planning services and priority is given to low-income people. Planned ( Read more... ) -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Reppeal: This Day Has Finally Come
Seventeen years ago, then-President Bill Clinton had a crazy idea that all of the men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces were human beings, regardless of their professed sexual orientation. Clinton was motivated, in part, by a man named Allen Schindler, a radioman in the U.S. Navy who was stomped into unrecognizability and, ( Read more... ) -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Reppeal Passes Senate 65-31
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted 65-31 on Saturday to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, defeating a 17-year policy of banning gay and lesbian service members from serving openly in the military. Six Republicans initially crossed the aisle to vote against the policy: Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Scott Brown (R-Mass ( Read more... ) -
Rwanda-desperately poor country with a health plan
MAYANGE, Rwanda - The maternity ward in the Mayange district health center is nothing fancy.
It has no running water, and the delivery room is little more than a pair of padded benches with stirrups. But the blue paint on the walls is fairly fresh, and the labor room beds have mosquito nets.
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House Votes to Repeal DADT!
(Reuters) - Lawmakers in both chambers of the Congress took steps on Thursday toward repealing a ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the U.S. military, a goal championed by President Barack Obama.
The House of Representatives voted 234-194 to approve an amendment aimed at ending the Clinton-era "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows ( Read more... ) -
US scores poorly on 2010 Mothers' Index while Norway ranks first and Afghanistan comes in dead last
US scores poorly on world motherhood rankings: charity
WASHINGTON - The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many smaller and poorer countries.
Norway topped the latest Save the Children "Mothers Index", followed by a string of ( Read more... ) -
Stories from the Frontlines
April 29, 2010
President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
As an active-duty military chaplain who just returned from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, this is my appeal for justice:
Over the years some of us have buried our closest friends -- officers and enlisted, African ( Read more... )
