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The Defense Reauthorization Bill, which included repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, just fell to yet another GOP filibuster: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill […]

So the stock market is back to the 2005 levels, inflation is rising, people are losing jobs, people who have jobs have an insecure feeling about their income, the national debt is at record levels, we got army bases who might get the power shut off for failure to pay bills, etc., etc., etc. So […]