Good article today in USA Today by Desmond Tutu and former US President Jimmy Carter, on behalf of The Elders who recently wrote about this same subject.

Winter Wonderland from MEA Digital on Vimeo. Next year, I’m gonna try and beat this. And if I can’t beat them, I want to join in the beach fun. But wow, this holiday e-card is great. Happy holidays in advance folks.

Vice President Joe Biden meets with U.N Special Representative for Iraq Ad Melkert, second from left, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 5, 2010.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski yet again demonstrated why he is one of the titans of foreign policy analysis with his unsentimental, clear-eyed discussion of America’s course in Afghanistan on Morning Joe this morning.

Check out this Russian military uniform fashion show. Sharp outfits. Will post-DADT Pentagon follow suit? Let’s hope so.

Excellent commentary by Michael Shank, senior policy adviser to Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA-15). Sober, serious, point by point critique of administration’s counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

Passing DADT repeal is only the beginning of a long process of bringing the Pentagon regulations and systems into conformity with the new law. This will take a while.

I have seen Senator Joe Manchin out on the holiday party circuit in Washington and did have a very full conversation with him about DADT at one particularly high powered evening — but parties are not the same as voting on nationally significant legislation. This just in from Politico‘s Ben Smith though.

Those in favor of cloture and opposed to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (63): Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brown (R-MA) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA)…

This delightful reflection on the coming demise of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was sent in to me just now by Georgetown University professor JP Singh: DADT sat on a wall DADT had a great fall and all Palin’s horses and all McCain’s men could not put DADT back together again.