While President Obama and the Republican congressional leadership have put off their Thursday get-together until later in the month, most Americans don’t have much faith anyway that the two sides would do much to bridge their differences or find areas of compromise, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Nov. 8-15. Those surveyed expressed the [...]
The military’s ban on openly gay service members will stay in place while it is challenged in a lower court, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. Ruling without comment, the justices shot down a request by the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group challenging the constitutionality of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, The Washington [...]
Cindy McCain is appearing in a new video ad sharply critical of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays — the very law her husband, Sen. John McCain, is battling to keep on the books. “Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] youth that they have no future,” McCain [...]
In an a taped interview with “60 Minutes,” broadcast Sunday evening, President Barack Obama spoke with host Steve Kroft about the lessons learned from the 2010 midterm elections, and vowed to work with Republicans to find a compromise on the extension of the Bush tax cuts, set to expire at the end of this year. [...]
Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader who was once an amateur boxer, said Thursday night that he doesn’t have to prove his manhood to anybody, especially his Republican opponent, Sharon Angle, who challenged him in a debate this week to “man up.” “People in Nevada know me,” Reid said with a confident smile. “From [...]
The Justice Department asked a federal judge in California Thursday to put on hold her worldwide injunction against enforcement of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward homosexual service members. At the same time, the Pentagon reportedly told its legal officers that they they should abide by the terms of the injunction pending further [...]
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