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...worst lie told by conscription advocates about the AVF is that it is an underclass military. Overrepresentation of blacks is modest; Hispanics are actually underrepresented. While there may be few sons and daughters of Wall Street in uniform, the military is an overwhelmingly middle-class force. The most obvious reason to maintain the AVF is practical: it's the best way to raise the world's finest military. What sets American society apart from totalitarian hellholes like Saddam Hussein's Iraq is its dedication to individual liberty. Conscription sacrifices the very values we are supposed to be defending...
...President's decision to go to war, and it was up to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to devise the strategy. But the burden of executing the decision rested on the shoulders of the men and women who make up the armed forces, both the 1.4 million in uniform and the 1.2 million who serve in the reserves...
DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, deeply earnest former Democratic Senator from Illinois and one-time presidential candidate; of complications from heart surgery; in Springfield, Ill. With a uniform of horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie, and no college degree, he was an unlikely politician. But after making a name for himself as the corruption-busting editor-publisher of a weekly newspaper, he was elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1954 and went on to serve five terms in the House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping...
...date, Boe has yet to lose a game while donning a Harvard uniform...
...president to defend Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy, not to temper his support of the military. Within Harvard’s diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community many share his feelings about the military, and others no doubt would welcome the opportunity to serve our country in uniform. “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” weakens our military by depriving it of sorely needed talent and distracting it from its vital mission. President Summers has every right to support the military, but he has no right to welcome their discrimination...