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Posted by MadCityMan on February 23, 2010, at 7:07 pm

Palm Center Report on DADT Refutes Grumpy Old Troglodyte’s Views

The Palm Center Report “Gays in Foreign Militaries 2010: A Global Primer” was released today. The report refutes the negative positions being touted by General Casey, Senator McCain and others based on their prejudices towards openly gays and lesbians serving in the United States Military. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell deserves to be banished to the trash bin of useless legislation and troglodytes that don’t see it that way need to get out of their caves and read the facts on the lack of any negative consequences that military forces around the world have had with open service by gays and lesbians.

Posted by MadCityMan on February 8, 2010, at 11:03 am

Fox News Gets it Right on DADT

In a rarity for the “fair and balanced” television station, Fox News analysts get it right on DADT

Posted by MadCityMan on February 6, 2010, at 1:08 pm

GOP Senators Put Nation’s Security at Risk

The DNC has issued a new ad attacking Senator Shelby and the Senate GOP for their obstructionism. The ad rightfully uses national security risks from Senator Shelby’s unprecedented universal hold on all Obama nominees until he gets his pork barrel projects.

Posted by Zach W on February 4, 2010, at 5:31 am

But we’ll only get intel if we torture the terrorists!

Torture works, right? After all, we’ve listened for years as conservatives have justified the use of torture as a means of gathering intelligence, since clearly terrorists won’t provide useful intelligence unless they’re tortured:

The “underwear bomber” has resumed cooperating with FBI counterterrorism agents and has provided “useful, current” intelligence, a law enforcement source told POLITICO [...]

Posted by MadCityMan on February 2, 2010, at 3:11 pm

SecDef Gates on Eliminating DADT

Secretary of Defense explains the position of the Defense Department to get the elimination of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell right. The policy should end as soon as possible.

Posted by Zach W on January 22, 2010, at 5:33 am

The Guantanamo “suicides”

This is the story of Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani. Each of these three men were being detained at the extra-Constitution detention facility Guantánamo Naval Base without ever having been charged with a crime, and each of the men died suddenly and violently (and almost at the same time) [...]

Posted by Zach W on January 10, 2010, at 6:23 am

Harry Reid’s favorite parlor trick: inserting his own foot into his mouth

It’s often been said that Vice President Joe Biden is a gaffe machine, but Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is no slouch when it comes to the dumb things that come out of his mouth. According to the book “Game Change,” an account of the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Reid described then-Sen. Barack [...]

Posted by Zach W on January 9, 2010, at 5:41 am

Obama: “The buck stops with me”

Posted by MadCityMan on January 5, 2010, at 4:17 pm

Colbert on the Christmas Underwear Bomber

Stephen Colbert on the Christmas Underwear Bomber