"Presidential candidate Ralph Nader this weekend warned his constituents that a military draft is pending, and asked younger voters to prepare."

" Young men today are still required to register with the Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthdays. There are 15 million men ages 18 to 25 registered with the agency."

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General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, charged that insurgents were violating a ceasefire, putting women and children in the line of fire, and using Red Crescent ambulances to smuggle in arms and ammunition.

"We went in because we had to to find the perpetrators and what we found was a huge rat's nest that is still festering today. It needs to be dealt with," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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The capitulation of the left --a necessarily catch-all word --is almost without precedent. By accepting the premises and practices of party unity the left has negated the reasons for its own existence.

A million dollars spent on education, Pollin calculates, would produce roughly twice the number of jobs as the same amount spent on the military.