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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Going Away?

The House has voted to get rid of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy which has unevenly governed the status of gays in the military since 1993. Lots of background on it is on Wikipedia. Here’s a New York Times article covering the very latest. The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is an amendment [...]

National Defense Cost Confusion

A commenter on S. 3001, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, which passed the House yesterday, pointed out a large discrepancy between the cost figures reported here on WashingtonWatch.com and on a worthy similar site, GovTrack. The GovTrack page on S. 3001 recites costs of $23 per American. (The commenter actually reported [...]