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DADT BAD-RacistDADT System Flawed- Causes Racism Against Black Women Jacksonville Free Press 10 (“Don't Ask, Don't Tell’ Disproportionately Affecting Black Women.” Jacksonville Free Press. Proquest. Pg 1. July 20, 2010.) Besides Afghanistan and Iraq, there is no other military policy that raises as much controversy as "Dont Ask, Dont Tell" (DADT.) Robert M. Gates, the defense secretary, and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a panel of Senators this week that they supported President Obama's proposal to repeal the 1993 Clinton era law forbidding gay men and women to be open about their sexuality while serving in uniform. This story has made headline news across the world. But what we haven't heard is, who's really being affected by this? From The Task Force study, Black same-sex households in the United States: A report from the 2000 Census: "Dont Ask, Don't Tell" has been used to kick Black women out of the military at a much higher rate than other groups. In fact, Black women are discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" at three times the rate that they serve in the military. Although Black women make up less than one percent of servicemembers, they comprise 3.3% of those discharged under the policy. But wait, it gets better. The same report notes people can be discharged under DADT even if they are not gay or lesbian, apparently there are cases where men have accused women who refuse unwanted sexual advances of being lesbians, or because the women are successful and some men do not want to serve under them. DADT Bad – AT: CohesionRepeal doesn’t undermine cohesion CAP 10 Center for American Progress, March, Myth vs. Fact: Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/03/dadt_myth_fact.html Myth: Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly will undermine unit cohesion and military readiness. Fact: Permitting openly gay and lesbian service personnel will not undermine cohesion or readiness, and the experiences of our allies are a good guide. Commanding officers in the United Kingdom stated that the decision to allow open service had “no tangible impact on operational effectiveness, team cohesion or Service life generally.” Department of National Defence personnel noted “no diminution of cohesion” shortly after the Canadian ban was lifted in 1993. In Israel, researchers from the Palm Center at the University of California-Santa Barbara were not “able to find any data indicating that lifting the gay ban undermined Israeli military performance, cohesion, readiness or morale.” The militaries of all of these countries continue to perform admirably as do U.S. service members who work alongside these forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover, U.S. research indicates gay and lesbian service members do not undermine cohesion or readiness. A RAND Corporation study noted in 1993 that “sharing similar traits or values enhances social cohesion, but it is not necessary for task cohesion, so long as individuals share a commitment to the group’s mission.” In 2008, Laura Miller of the RAND Corporation and Bonnie Moradi of the University of Florida examined data from a 2006 Zogby poll sampling service members who had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and found “no associations between knowing a lesbian or gay unit member and ratings of perceived unit cohesion or readiness.”
Center for American Progress, March, Myth vs. Fact: Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/03/dadt_myth_fact.html Myth: Allowing openly gay service will reduce recruitment and retention rates. Fact: Openly gay service has never been shown to reduce recruitment or retention significantly. After the United Kingdom lifted its ban in 2000, Palm Center researchers found later the same year that “no one has heard of any difficulties related to recruitment or training completion rates; recruitment levels are characterized as ‘quite buoyant.’” The RAND Corporation’s 1993 study found that the Canadian Forces had suffered “no resignations (despite previous threats to quit), no problems with recruitment.”
Center for American Progress, March, Myth vs. Fact: Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/03/dadt_myth_fact.html Myth: The experiences of foreign militaries are not good models for decisions by the U.S. military. Fact: There is much to learn from the experiences of our allies, especially the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel. Like U.S. forces, these militaries deploy frequently, require their service members to share close living quarters such as on submarines, engage in combat regularly, and perform effectively under fire. Moreover, these countries and the service members who constitute their armed forces all share common social values with the United States. Canada and Israel began to permit unrestricted open service around the same time that the United States instituted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the United Kingdom repealed its ban 10 years ago. None of the nightmare scenarios predicted by some opponents of open service occurred in these countries.
***Global Warming Legislation*** Warming InternalGoP win tanks warming regulations Page 10 Susan, USA Today, 4-28, "Six months to November, with dates to watch," http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-04-28-six-months_N.htm Eighteen months after Barack Obama was elected president and Democratic margins in Congress widened, Republicans boast that they're poised to regain control of the House in November and be in a position to stymie the White House agenda. Democrats argue that they have enough time amid signs of a brightening economy to improve their prospects and minimize their losses in the midterm elections. With six months to go, there are road signs to watch for that will indicate which side is right. At stake is the future of the Bush administration tax cuts that expire this year, the ambitious cap-and-trade climate bill now stalled on Capitol Hill, even the efforts to reshape or repeal the health care law that was enacted just last month and is a signature of Obama's administration. A Republican takeover presumably would dispatch the president to a land of diminished expectations, where a GOP rout sent then-president Bill Clinton for a time after his disastrous 1994 midterms.
Andrew Leonard, Political Analyst, 10/16/2009, “Obama's secret plan for a successful presidency,” http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/16/obamas_secret_plan_for_a_successful_presidency/index.html Mickey Kaus says everything is falling into place for a successful Obama presidency. Except that, in the best Mickey Kaus tradition, his thesis is so drenched with contrarian posing that the definition of a "successful" Obama presidency means the abandonment of most of the policy goals Democrats have for his term. The Kaus thesis is predicated on Obama getting healthcare reform passed, after which the Democrats get clobbered by a still-crippled economy in the 2010 midterm elections. That, in turn, will mean that the rest of the "controversial big Dem bills that got backed up in 2010" -- climate change, card-check, immigration reform -- will die stillborn.
Alan Abramowtiz, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, 9/3/2009, “Forecasting the Midterm Election; An Early Look at What to Expect in 2010,” Center For Politics, pg. np Democrats are likely to lose at least 15 seats in the House of Representatives in 2010 and their losses could go as high as 30-40 seats. The Senate looks more promising for Democrats because there are as many Republican as Democratic seats up for election next year but a loss of 3-4 seats is entirely possible. Given the deep partisan divide in both chambers, diminished majorities will make it much more difficult for Democrats to pass any major legislation in the next Congress. If anything, Republican leaders emboldened by a successful election are likely to be even less interested in compromise with the White House and Democratic leaders than now. If Democrats can’t pass health care, carbon caps, and immigration reform in the current Congress, they probably won’t have another chance until at least 2013. Healthy majority key Guardian 10 March, “The Tea Party is a Dynamic Force, but it is Still Unruly and Incoherent,” Lexis Obama's agenda, including legislation on healthcare reform, climate change and income redistribution, was predicated on the expectation of a healthy Congressional majority. That is now in peril. Democrats currently have a majority of 77 in the House of Representatives and 18 in the Senate. According to the respected election forecasts of the Cook Political Report, there are 59 competitive House seats in the mid-terms. Of those, Democrats are defending 53 and Republicans only six. The Democratic hold on the Senate is also precarious. In the upper house there are 12 competitive seats, of which Democrats are defending eight and Republicans four. Democrats have little to show for their majorities as it is. Given the lack of discipline in the Democratic caucus, Republicans need only prevail in half of these races to make meaningful progress almost impossible. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.56 Mb. Share with your friends:
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