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02 20th, 2011| 
AFP – US President Barack Obama has a habit of apologizing for the United States and did nothing to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
16
Reuters – Republicans in the Congress on Wednesday pressed ahead with legislation to immediately slice $61 billion from domestic programs, but so far showed little appetite for paring one of the biggest chunks of the budget — military spending. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
14
AP – President Barack Obama will send Congress on Monday a $3 trillion-plus budget for 2012 that promises $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by freezing many domestic programs for five years, trimming military spending and limiting tax deductions for the wealthy. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
23
AP – President Barack Obama signed a new law Wednesday that will allow gays for the first time in history to serve openly in America’s military. And he urged those kicked out under the old law to re-enlist. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
22
AP – President Barack Obama signed a landmark law Wednesday repealing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military, fulfilling one of his major campaign pledges and casting the issue as a matter of civil rights long denied. “No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie, or look over their shoulder in order to serve the country that they love,” Obama said. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
22
AP – Fulfilling a campaign pledge, cheering his party’s downcast liberals and striking a blow for what he sees as basic human rights, President Barack Obama is signing a landmark law Wednesday that tells America’s armed services to let homosexuals serve openly for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
19
AFP – The United States stood Sunday on the cusp of letting gays serve openly in its military for the first time, as the US Congress sent President Barack Obama a bill to bring about the historic shift. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
18
AP – President Barack Obama is praising senators as they near passage of legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
10
AP – President Barack Obama is urging the Senate to try again to repeal the military’s ban on openly gay service members before the end of the year. Read the rest of this entry »