North Korea backed off its promise to deliver an "unpredictable self-defensive blow" over South Korean military drills today, but the North kept talking shit, saying the South hadn't learned "a lesson from the disgraceful defeat they suffered" last month. [CNN]

Get psyched! South Korea is preparing for a "live fire drill" on Yeonpyeong Island, near its border with North Korea.

Don't Ask Don't Tell is dead but still remains in effect. The Human Rights Campaign says it's not safe for soldiers to come out yet. If you're looking to be the last person discharged under DADT, though now's your chance.

The Senate today repealed the US military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy of barring openly gay servicemembers from the armed forces by a vote of 65 to 31. President Obama only needs to sign it. [TPM]

The Senate took a big step toward ending the military's ban on openly gay servicemembers today, voting to end debate on a bill repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the Army doctor who refused to deploy to Afghanistan over doubts that commander-in-chief Barack Obama was born in the United States, was sentenced to six months in military prison today. Martyr! But no, not really.

It's sad that the debate over repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" may be over, and we'll stop hearing comically bizarre arguments against repeal. So let's savor Rep. Louis Gohmert's theory of gays and imperial decline, while we still can.

Sexual assaults in the U.S. military academies are way up this year. For some reason.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, an Army doctor, pleaded guilty in military court yesterday on one of two charges relating to his refusal to deploy to Afghanistan, based on his doubts that President Obama was born in the United States.

Lt. Dan Choi, the prominent anti-Don't Ask Don't Tell activist, has been hospitalized following a breakdown. "My breakdown was a result of a cumulative array of stressors," he writes, including the Senate's failure to pass a DADT-repealing bill. [via Towleroad]

The Obama administration has loudly opposed a provision of the omnibus spending bill, passed last week by the House, that would ban the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to U.S. soil, even for trial.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Navy sailors serving in the Arabian Sea today that despite the push from him and other Pentagon leaders, the military's ban on gays serving openly is likely to continue into the next year.

Hey, military people leaking sexy secret documents: Your counterparty could be an undercover federal agent who'll arrest you! So it went with petty officer Bryan Minkyu Martin, who's now in custody at Fort Bragg after a transaction gone awry.

The second day of Senate hearings regarding a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal went better for shameless filibuster-leader John McCain. But that's only because he fully embarrassed himself yesterday. But are the individual service chiefs really against repeal?

U.S. soldiers in Iraq who try to read about the Wikileaks disclosures—or read coverage of them in mainstream news sites—on unclassified networks get a page warning them that they're about to break the law.

Jon Stewart tread on familiar ground tonight, lambasting Senator John McCain for continuing his backpedaling and doublespeak on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Curiously, though, it was Joe Lieberman who got a tip of the hat. Watch inside.

A proposed repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" enjoys the support of a national majority. The Pentagon has thoroughly studied and endorsed it. It wouldn't bother soldiers. DADT has been ruled unconstitutional, anyway. But John McCain needs more.

The Pentagon has officially released its several hundred-page study on whether allowing gay soldiers say "I'm gay" aloud would destroy the American military. And its survey results show: Most soldiers do not think that this would destroy the American military.

Sick of all this gays in the military jibber-jabber? Well, rest easy, because the whole controversy has been settled on The Daily Caller. The solution? Lesbians are totally fine in the military, but gay men (hereafter "gays") are absolutely not.

Senate Democrats will keep a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal in the defense authorization bill next month. This is your last chance, gays, and supporters of gays, so consider telephoning your particular plutocrat. Then we can stop talking about this!