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Who Needs a Draft?

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With recruiting techniques like this?
This young man’s experience with military recruiters started while he was still in high school. Perhaps this is one of those areas where a parental consent law might make some sense especially to those who value life. Something along the lines of:

No representative of a military organization or any other organization that trains people to kill may contact any individual below the age of 21 without written permission of the individual’s parents. No individual below the age of 21 may join or enlist in the above referenced organization without written approval of their parents.

Yes, in answer to your first questions. The above does say parents which is plural which means both parents must sign. Second, I picked 21 and not 18 as individuals in the US have been restrained from the full execution of their rights (alcohol consumption for example) until they are 21.

WAPO VP Deems bush a Reliable Source

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Yesterday on NPR Michelle Norris interviewed Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post:

As editor during Watergate, Bradlee was responsible for overseeing the paper’s coverage of the scandal and deciding whether to trust his reporter’s sources, including “Deep Throat.”

In a discussion about the number of sources required for a story to go forward this exchange took place:

Norris: I remember from my days1 that reporters generally needed multiple sources. You needed to come back with more than one name to back up your story.
Bradlee: That is the goal, certainly. Many stories we kept out of the paper because tehy only had one source.
But, if you think about it for a minute, if the President of the United States tells you something then you don’t really need a second source. You don’t hear President Bush say this is so and then go check it with somebody. You don’t have to do that.

Hmmm, just when did the president become infallible? Shouldn’t the fourth estate be fact checking everything that government officials say? And, with regard to the current president, it should be pretty clear to the press that disassembling, dissembling and dissimulation are the norm.
We are truly in deep trouble if faith based journalism is now the norm!
1Norris worked for Bradlee at the Washington Post.

War Tax and Draft?

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In an interview at Antiwar.com author James Bamford, A Pretext for War, suggests that a war tax and a mandatory draft are a sure way to assure full public involvement in the war making process:

The key problem is massive public apathy and extremely poor press coverage. I think the only way to prevent such wars in the future would be to make every citizen an equal shareholder in the war

eating with bush

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I wonder what the prudish base think about the republican national committee hooking bush and rove up with this pair:

Porn star and former gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey will be joining her boss, Kick Ass Pictures president Mark Kulkis, in attending a dinner with President Bush in Washington, D.C. on June 14.
Kulkis was invited to attend the event by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which is organizing the event. Over a two-day course of NRCC events preceding the dinner, Carey and Kulkis will be attending a meeting with presidential advisor Karl Rove, giving their recommendations on important national issues.

and exactly which important national issues they will discuss.
Via Skippy.