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Maine teen wants to ban military funeral protets
Boston Herald - 2 days agoBelfast, Maine — A Maine High School Student who’s proposing Federal Legislation to ban Protests at Military Funerals is finding himself targeted by a Kansas church that uses Funerals to make a point. Searsport Regional High School St…
Read more >>Oldest postal retirees get most costly of payouts
Washington Times - 3 days agoMore than 100 U.S. Postal Service employees over 90 years old are collecting Workers Compensation - a fact one U.S. senator calls troubling, arguing that workers ought to be moved to Retirement rolls from which payouts would be less expensive. Und…
Read more >>Obama the Genius (Susan Estrich)
Yahoo! News - 6 days agoCreators Syndicate – Was it only a month ago that the chattering class was writing off the president as being almost as thoroughly defeated as the Lame Duck Congress, as the failed leader who had lost his way, popularity plummeting, accomp…
Read more >>Murkowski goes rogue
Politico - 7 days agoLisa Murkowski isn’t gunning down caribou on national TV like that other famous Alaskan, but the Republican lawmaker is Going Rogue in the Senate just weeks after staging the most stunning back-from-the-dead political win of the 2010 cycl …
Read more >>'Thank You, Mr. President!': The Long Road To Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The Huffington Post - 8 days agoWASHINGTON -- Susan Collins stood at her desk on the Senate floor, a copy of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) Legislation before her, angrily berating her on-again, off-again allies, Joe Lieberman and Carl Levin. Collins furiously waved a copy o…
Read more >>Obama signs 'Don't ask' repeal in big victory for LGBT voters
The Hill - 8 days ago
President Obama signed Legislation on Wednesday to do away with the Military's ban on Openly Gay and Lesbian members, following through on a key campaign promise to the LGBT community. Obama hailed the new law he approved to do away with t…
Read more >>President Obama signs Dont Ask Dont Tell policy (DADT) repeal into law
Examiner.com - 8 days ago
Washington , D.C. - In a ceremony at the Department of the Interior on Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law which will end the 'Don’t Ask Don’t Tell' (DADT) policy in the United States Military. When the Repea…
Read more >>Obama Signs DADT Repeal Into Law
TPMDC - 8 days agoPresident Obama this morning signed into law the bill repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. "I am just overwhelmed," Obama said as he took the stage among chants of "Yes we can!" and whoops from the audience. "This is a very good day." "No longer wi…
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