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Confirming that California is the land of fruits and nuts its Senator likened the US to the Communist regime in North Korea, the Islamic regime in Iran and the Pakistani government at a press conference in which she called for repealing the ban on homosexuals in the military during the lame duck session of Congress.

The USO teams up with celebrities such as Trace Adkins to entertain troops. The USO is still one of the best ways to show your support for our troops. USO.org is their website.

Realizing that his START treaty has too many flaws to pass a reasonable examination Obama pulls out the stops and announces it as a priority for the lame duck congress where he hopes loyal Democrats will ignore the serious issues.

The rush to ratify a flawed treaty undermines the important role of “advice and consent” that the Senate must exercise on any treaty of this magnitude.

The letter notes that never before in American history has the Senate seen fit to exercise its constitutional responsibility to provide quality control on treaties by effectively rubber-stamping a major strategic arms treaty in a lame-duck session.

Sen. Kyl said the Senate should not consider the pact during the lame-duck session of Congress. President Obama has called passage of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) his top foreign policy priority during the lame-duck session that began this week.

Jed Babbin is warning that the Obama administration is doing damage to the military, and may not be up to the many national security challenges that the United States currently faces.

In what the Post describes as a “high-octane lobbying” campaign, Gates has already offered Kyl an extra $4 billion in spending on nuclear programs in exchange for his vote. This is on top of the existing $10 billion Administration pledge. This deal is bad policy and deplorable politics.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that in the upcoming lameduck session of Congress he will continue to oppose a repeal of the law that bans homosexuals from serving in the U.S. military.

My life changed forever on March 28, 1945. My dad, a naval aviator, was killed on that date in a military aircraft crash into the Chesapeake Bay off Oceana Naval Air Station, Virginia. It was two days before my fourth birthday.