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President Obama has once again pledged to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,”  and we talk with West Point graduate and Iraq war veteran Lieutenant Dan Choi, who’s facing discharge from the military for revealing he is gay, and with attorney and longtime gay rights activist Urvashi Vaid about the Obama administration’s stance toward gay rights. And author Barbara Ehrenreich documents what she says is the destructive power of the positive thinking movement in the United States, from breast cancer, to the workplace, to the economy, to politics as a whole. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.