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ROTC Returns to Harvard After Four Decades in Wilderness
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyROTC is back at Harvard after a four-decade absence dating back to the Vietnam war. The White House welcomed the announcement bringing the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps back to the Cambridge campus, saying it sent a "message that Americans stand united." The decision "is an important step in moving past the old divisions that often kept many Americans from seeing what we share with one another, including love of country and a profound respect for our brave men and women in uniform," Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. The breakthrough was enactment of a law repealing the ...
Harvard, Navy to Sign Agreement on ROTC Return
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON - The Reserve Officer Training Corps' four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday that will establish the Naval ROTC's formal presence on campus for the first time since the Vietnam War era, the university announced Thursday. ROTC first exited amid anti-war sentiment, and the school lately kept it off campus and stopped funding the program because of the ...
Piece by Piece, Obama Undoing President Bill Clinton's Actions
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsANALYSIS WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's stunning announcement that it now considers the Defense of Marriage Act indefensible because it discriminates against gay couples was more than a sign of the times. It was yet one more reason Barack Obama is the un-Bill Clinton. From gay rights to Wall Street reform, Obama has taken actions his fellow Democrat wished he could have during his presidency or which, a decade after leaving office, he regrets he didn't: Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images Former President Bill Clinton, right, said he "didn't like" signing the Defense of ...
Top Marine Says DADT Repeal Won't Lead to Exodus in Force
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps commandant who once said openly gay service members would be a dangerous "distraction" and was among the most outspoken opponents of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy said today he does not expect to lose troops over the change. "I haven't had any indication yet at all, not at all," Gen. James Amos told reporters when asked if he expected the mass exodus of troops that Sen. John McCain and other critics predicted if the ban was lifted. Amos was visiting troops in Afghanistan's Helmand Province when President Barack Obama signed the repeal ...
Pentagon Outlines Plans to Implement 'Don't Ask' Repeal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Pentagon, releasing the first details of its plan to implement a new law that will allow gays to serve openly in the military, said today it could begin training troops in February and could be certifiably ready to drop the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by the end of 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates set Feb. 4 as the deadline for officials to deliver their plan to integrate gays into the military. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright, right, and Clifford Stanley, defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness, ...
State of the Union: Obama Calls Investment in Innovation 'Our Sputnik Moment'
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama outlined an ambitious plan Tuesday to "win the future," urging renewed investment in American technology, infrastructure and education, while simultaneously calling for a more streamlined federal government and a reduction of the deficit. In his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress -- some of whose members crossed the aisle in a symbolic show of bipartisanship -- Obama emphasized a common purpose and a shared future. "We will move forward together, or not at all," he said, "for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics." Early ...
Ban on Gays in Military Cost $193 Million in Five Years
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Pentagon's ban on gays serving openly in the military dismissed 3,664 service members between 2004 and 2009 at a cost to taxpayers of $193.3 million, according to a new government audit. That's roughly $53,000 per expelled service member during the five year span, according to the Government Accountability Office report released Thursday. The GAO found the bulk of those funds -- $185.6 million -- was spent to recruit and train replacements for those gays and lesbians forced out under the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The rest of the money was administrative ...
Joe Lieberman to Retire: Instant Reactions
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsSo long, Joe. Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman will announce Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in 2012, according to a source close to the senator. The Democrat-turned-independent has served four terms in the Senate and was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000. Four years later, while running in the Democratic presidential primary, Lieberman coined the term "Joementum" to describe his campaign's potential -- although he failed to capture the nomination. Now that the "Joementum" is coming to an end, pundits and commentators are registering their reactions. Daily ...
Experts: Capt. Owen Honors' Navy Career Is Over
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe naval career of Capt. Owen Honors, who apparently produced, broadcast and even starred in raunchy and homophobic videos made aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier, will be over in a matter of days, according to military experts. "He's done. His career is over," Stephen Saltzburg, the general counsel of the National Institute of Military Justice and a law professor at George Washington University, told AOL News in a phone interview today. "This is just bad judgment -- horribly bad judgment." The Virginian Pilot / AP In this frame grab taken from video, U.S. Navy Capt. ...
Democrats Boast of 'Top 10' List in Last Congress
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThey lost 63 districts and the majority in the U.S. House and saw their edge in the Senate whittled down to a few seats, but the Democratic Party says lawmakers carrying its banner can look at the just-completed congressional session "with pride." Related Stories Lynn Sweet and David Corn on MSNBC: Lame Duck Congress Successes Unhappiness Among Democrats Pushes Approval Rating for Congress to New Low To make the point, the party on Wednesday put out a "Top 10" list showcasing the "vigorous productivity" of the 111th Congress, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and ...
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