The chief of the U.S. Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft, increasing the draft age to 34, and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
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Politics
Israel’s Housing Ministry has funneled nearly $6.5 million to illegal settlement construction in the West Bank in the past three years, more than half of it to outposts Israel pledged to remove, the state comptroller said Wednesday. Four years into an embattled Bush administration, Colin Powell is hard at work at something he’s never had …
News extravaganza
The Congressional Research Service says the Bush administration apparently violated federal law by ordering the chief Medicare actuary to withhold information from Congress indicating that the new Medicare law could cost far more than White House officials had said. The Bush administration is coming under fire for allegedly allowing political concerns to determine what it …
Rush is classy
Media Matters for America will document and correct conservative misinformation in each news cycle. Some nice ones in here: Rush Limbaugh’s comments on the March for Women’s Lives: “Some of these babes, I’m telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd. They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.” [4/26/04]. ‘There …
I wish this was funny
Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act