Dear Dr. Farley, Will the end of DADT bring about the collapse of American society as we know it? Should I being trying to learn Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Mexican, or Canadian? Depressed in Dover Dear Depressed in Dover, Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Also yes. And none of the above; while the end of DADT […]
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…World’s Worst Deliberative Body rejects DREAM ACT by 55-41 majority. …Joe Lieberman — Joe Lieberman! — gives nice, concise pro-DADT repeal speech. World’s biggest
In recent weeks, some commenters have instructed me that DADT repeal was a done deal. I never understood this, since Collins’s position all along has been consistent: she’ll vote for clotu
Michael Goldfarb(!) asks a halfway useful question: Assuming time is a scarce resource in the lame duck (and it is), and assuming the votes might be there for START (and they aren’t)…..would liberals rather have a fight over DADT or START? As you would suspect, this question is loaded; there’s not necessarily a conflict between […]
What Drum says here is correct: Democratic spinelessness on this is worth mocking. But let’s get real: the problem isn’t with Senate Democrats, 97% of whom voted to repeal DADT in Septembe
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