Pentagon to Offer Same Sex Bennies

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Monday February 11, 2013 · 12:30 PM PST

2013/02/11 · 12:30

Not sure if this has been posted yet but, per HuffPost...

WASHINGTON -- More than a year after lifting the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military, the Pentagon has extended certain benefits to these service members and their families.

Gay rights groups have been pressing the Pentagon to extend equal benefits to gay service members and their families since the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The benefits include commissary privileges, access to family support initiatives and joint duty assignments. The move was one of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's last moves as a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, and it will likely be one of his most lasting legacies.

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Friday May 11, 2012 · 2:44 AM PDT

2012/05/11 · 02:44

The Romney campaign, apparently realizing that Americans look none too kindlyon bullies these days, has resorted to trolling through his high school yearbook looking for surrogates to defend his "pranks" but no one's biting. How pathetic is this? I know I wasn't the most popular of gals in high school but I could certainly scrounge up one or two former friends to say I was a good friend and kind person. Romney can't find any such people!

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Wednesday July 29, 2009 · 9:14 AM PDT

2009/07/29 · 09:14

I admit it. I'm getting kind of sick of people lavishing praise on Tricare and military health care in general (that includes Jon Stewart and Bill Kristol). My husband is actually in the Navy, full time, and we have Tricare Prime. It is managed by a private health insurer which has the same profit motive and shady claims practices as other private insurers. And over the last ten years, we've had significant problems with Tricare paying claims and even getting access to care.

Years ago, military service members and their families had CHAMPUS or CHAMPVA which was set up like Medicare with copays, deductibles and complete freedom of choice in physicians. Now we have an HMO style plan that can be, no is, extremely restrictive. Those who have access to care at big military bases with hospitals have fewer hassles. Those of us not attached to a big base, as we are, are not so fortunate. We're just like anybody else here. Our health care is stretched to its limits too. People tend to think we're all taken care of and get everything free. But that's just not so.

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 11:51 PM PDT

2009/07/20 · 23:51

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested yesterday for breaking into his own Cambridge home. According to the Boston Herald, after gaining entrance to the home, police arrived and requested proof that Dr. Gates resided there. When the responding officer was shown the ID, rather than offering an apology and leaving the residence, he continued to question Dr. Gates and ultimately arrested him on the front porch of his own home. More after the jump...

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Pentagon to Offer Same Sex Bennies

Poor Mitt Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine

Tricare (military healthcare) is not what it's cracked up to be.

Harvard Professor, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Arrested At Home