Word: rumores
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...noticed the defendamerica posting, but it pinged around the Web and eventually helped create one of the most dubious e-mail phenomena since ads for penis enhancement: the rumor that if he is re-elected, President Bush plans to reinstate the draft...
...President has repeatedly said he favors an all- volunteer military, as does John Kerry. But that hasn't dissuaded a loose-knit coterie of online conspiracists, antiwar activists and Democratic Party operatives from keeping the draft rumor alive...
...adding weight to the rumor, Laursen admitted visiting the Danilovsky Monastery—the original home of the bells—while in Moscow with his family this summer...
...Indeed, until Tuesday, the bill had seen its last action twenty months ago, when it was referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need to counter rumor-mongers like McGregor who made people fear that the bill was just a clever acronym away from being passed...
Unfortunately, McGregor has not been alone in stoking unfounded fear about H.R. 163. Andre Heinz, John Kerry’s stepson, said in an interview last month that “we now have the specter of a draft looming...a draft that, rumor has it, won’t give you the luxury of deferment.” This rumor is an apparent reference to the deferment restrictions...