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Obama did pledge - as he has before - to end the Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. But once again he said nothing specific about how he plans to do that and didn't acknowledge that he already has the statutory power to instruct the Pentagon that investigating service members' sexuality is not in the best interest of the armed forces. Also, he said that gay relationships can be "just as real and admirable" as straight relationships, but he did not say gay couples should be treated equally. Obama, after all, still opposes equal marriage rights...
...perfect plan or even the right plan is something that is being questioned in Congress," says Democratic Representative George Miller of California, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. "When you have seen the market's ability to create bubbles, you've got to ask whether the people trying to save for retirement should have to ride that risk." (See pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
...speech, audience members lined up to ask questions, which ranged from policy-specific topics to Gingrich’s ideas about the rising powers of China and India...
Were you given full access to MI5's files up to the present day? I was given virtually unrestricted access. However, I did not ask for access to 21st century files of cases that haven't yet come to court or that are still under investigation. (Read "British Spies: Licensed...
...Draper. He's called the "Mad Major," because he was absolutely obsessed with flying under London's bridges. He's invited over to Germany. Hitler is very interested and spends over half an hour talking to him at an air show. When he gets back [to London], he's asked to become a spy for German intelligence, and he says fine, stopping only to ask MI5 if that's O.K. on the way! By monitoring the contacts he has to make with German intelligence, MI5 picks up a German agent they didn't know about and begin to roll...