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...Gist: If you don't want your kid to join the military, have them read the latest report on the health of Gulf War veterans, released by a congressionally mandated panel earlier this week. The 465-page study details how the U.S. military mistakenly poisoned its own soldiers with two chemicals during Operation Desert Storm, leading to a number of debilitating symptoms - from chronic muscle pain and digestive problems to memory loss and persistent skin lesions - now collectively known as Gulf War illness (GWI). Worse still, the panel found that millions of dollars in funding for GWI research had been...
...year-old drinking age would cause significantly fewer deaths, we should seek to allow those under 21 who wish to drink to do so.A drinking age of 18 would be far more reasonable. Eighteen is already considered the age of majority for most purposes, such as the ability to join the military, smoke, and vote. It is an insult to those between the ages of 18 and 21 for the state to say that individuals have not reached the age at which they can choose for themselves to drink responsibly.While the current national age of 21—effectively mandated...
...Obama's health-care proposal has many of the features of the Clinton plan, including a requirement that most employers provide coverage for their workers and mechanisms that would allow purchasers of health care to join groups for a better deal on their coverage. But unlike the Clinton plan, it would not require Americans who now have coverage (and are satisfied with it) to give that up. Its supporters hope that will make the proposal an easier sell to voters. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail...
...shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join one, you get labeled ... We want to be bold, but we want to be bold together. It doesn't work if you've got 20 members that want to be bold and others aren't. The key is rebuilding the team, and it's going...
...international military efforts to police the shipping lanes of East Africa. The vessel attacked by the marines was nothing more than a rickety old fishing dhow, and the eight men arrested are likely to be quickly replaced by hundreds of other pirates - not to mention the thousands desperate to join their ranks and get a piece of the lucrative action. The pirates have thrived in a situation of negligible government authority on land, where the Somali state barely exists. And they are further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where to put arrested pirate suspects on trial. Strict...