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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!As they said about John Galt in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged:" Who is Julian Paul Assange? He is, of course, the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian master hacker at the white-hot center of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and, after revealing thousands of secret Afghan battlefield reports this week, the subject of investigation by U.S. authorities. By now we've heard quite a bit about the Assange mystique and his cutesy-named website. WikiLeaks devotes itself to obtaining and posting secret government documents and information from unidentified sources. With WikiLeaks' heightened ...
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has been around Washington politics long enough perhaps, to know better. But he did ask, as he launched an internal assessment of the Pentagon's policy on gays last month, that people hold off on the overheated rhetoric and political points-scoring long enough for a thoughtful and calm discussion of the impact of changing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'' It was not to be. Opposition to ending the congressional ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces has reached nowhere near the howling cacophony that has arisen over the health care overhaul. But the prospect ...
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