This one crosses democratic and republican administrations:

The financial costs to the U.S. military for discharging and replacing gay service members under the nation’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy are nearly twice what the government estimated last year, with taxpayers covering at least $364 million in associated funds over the policy’s first decade, according to a University of California report scheduled for release today.

Its a stupid, wasteful policy. But then that’s what governments do.

Via The Carpetbagger report via Norwegianity.