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Curious choice of words from Defense Secretary Bob Gates yesterday on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He’s talking about how to deal with the law-slash-regulation in advance of attempts to overturn it, as President Obama reiterated was his intention last week:
And so one of the things we’re looking at is is there flexibility in how we [...]

Just one quick point about President Obama’s speech yesterday in Prague on a U.S.-led global agenda for nuclear disarmament. Did you ever think you would hear the president of the United States say this:

There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We must confront it not by splitting apart but by [...]

Just released from Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s (D-Calif.) office:
“For the past 13 years, I have had the honor and privilege of serving you in Congress. Representing California’s 10th Congressional District always has been and remains – especially in these trying times – my first priority.”
“Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asked me to [...]

Al Kamen at The Washington Post reports that Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) is being considered for a top post at the State Department: undersecretary for arms control and nonproliferation. If Tauscher is tapped, the Pakistani government, which already doesn’t like Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is probably about to like her even less. Last [...]

Here’s a reason to be relieved if you’re a deployed or deployable member of the U.S. military (though at this point “deployable member of the U.S. military” is pretty much redundant). Tomorrow Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) is set to introduce a bill mandating that the Defense Department provide U.S. troops with two months’ rest time [...]