Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain of the Armed Services Committee are reportedly working to shelve the legislative effort to end the military’s ban on openly gay service members. With a diminished Democratic majority in the Senate, an incoming Republican House and an administration that lacks genuine enthusiasm for the cause, there doesn’t appear to be any champions willing to fight it out on behalf of gay and lesbian troops in the lame duck session. Seventy percent of Americans, according to Gallup , favor allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the military.
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It’s not quite “Ozzie and Harriet with Security Clearances,” but there is something inescapably unedifying in watching the Wilsons bicker their way through the clichés of marital disaffection in a case that—let’s face it—was of small import in the context of the much larger crimes perpetrated by a pusillanimous power elite. Related Entries November 5, 2010 A Speaker Who Stood Out November 5, 2010 From Uprising to Hostile Takeover … and Back Again
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What is it with MSNBC hosts and their inability to keep prominent African-Americans straight?
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Robert Greenwald and the crew over at Brave New Films have come up with a fun way to handle election hangover. Related Entries November 4, 2010 David Sirota Tells Conservative Democrats to Go Fuck Themselves November 3, 2010 Blue Dogs Get Taken to the Pound
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If you’re not on Facebook, you’re officially more out of touch than the Queen of England . Her Majesty, who already has a presence on YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, is starting up a monarchy funpage so you can more easily keep track of her business. Just remember, one does not poke the Queen.
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India’s future role in the United Nations might just bump up a big notch soon, thanks to Barack Obama’s endorsement. The president officially announced his support for India’s permanent inclusion on the UN’s Security Council on Monday, a move that was met with some skepticism and wariness in neighboring Pakistan.
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By Nomi Prins In the wake of the election, the Fed pulled off a move detected only by downtown Manhattan. It quietly announced a purchase of $600 billion in Treasury securities (read: our debt) while pundits on the left and right were dissecting the role of the tea party in political life as we know it. Related Entries November 8, 2010 A Recipe for Fascism November 5, 2010 Bomb Attacks Shake Pakistan
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So, in his hype-o-matic interview with George W. Bush, “Today Show” talker Matt Lauer gets a glimpse of the former president’s post-White House lifestyle. Hey, he has an iPad! All the better for reading the word of the Lord and Rupert Murdoch—not necessarily in that order. Related Entries November 8, 2010 A Recipe for Fascism November 5, 2010 Bomb Attacks Shake Pakistan
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While in Barcelona to dedicate Antoni Gaudi’s famous, yet unfinished, Sagrada Familia basilica, Pope Benedict XVI got down to some unfinished business of his own, zeroing in on a short list of favorite family values issues he sees as causes for concern in a country that once seemed far more set on getting with the Catholic program than it does in this more secular era.
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