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Just days ago, the State of the Union address reassured Americans that the President would do what he could to “finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.” Now, the nation’s top two defense officials have thankfully set in motion a campaign to repeal the infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, 16 years after its institution. While long overdue, the move to repeal this law?...
Harvard has had moments of brilliance throughout its season—namely, its three-game winning streak against Yale, Dartmouth, and Union, which was followed by an overtime 3-3 tie against Rensselaer. The trick will be in taking these moments of brilliance and extending them over the course of a season, or at least another game...
...program is tantamount to taking the nine billion dollars already spent on the program over six years and setting it on fire. It’s baffling because the decision will eliminate thousands of jobs—this comes days after the President said in the State of the Union, “jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.” It’s baffling because the decision could not have been made to save money, since the proposal actually increases NASA’s budget, even though the President announced days...
...President's hour in the lion's den was part of an aggressive week of politics - his first in many moons - that began with his well-received State of the Union address and proceeded through town meetings in Florida and New Hampshire. It was marked by a new willingness to engage the opposition party with cutting humor and offers of compromise. In the State of the Union, he had offered an olive branch to the Republicans - a new commitment to budget balancing (including a bipartisan commission to reduce the deficit that Republicans had been clamoring for), a new emphasis...
...boatload of money, of course ... but one wonders whether the party that gave the world "death panels" would stand behind such an all-out assault on the financial security of the nation's most devout voters. (See pictures of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech...