Rep. Rangel will seek to reinstate draft Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars and to bolster U.S. troop levels insufficient to cover potential future action in Iran, North Korea

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or, Leftist Climate Scaremongering Twaddle Analyzed In part one of a two-part Sunday series in The Telegraph, Christopher Monckton reviews the history of Global Climate Change as a political means toward installing “world government”. The Stern report last week predicted dire economic and social effects of unchecked global warming. In what many will see as a highly controversial polemic, Christopher Monckton disputes the ‘facts’ of this impending apocalypse and accuses

such as human trafficking and sexual assault are contravened by the laws of Colorado: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flew to Saudi Arabia this week to reassure government officials there that Homaidan Al-Turki was treated fairly when he was convicted of sexually abusing an Indonesian nanny held a virtual captive in his Aurora home. Suthers sat knee-to-knee for an hour with King Abdullah and also met with Crown Prince Sultan,

While at drill with my Guard unit today, I ran into evidence that proves morale is in the crapper.

Planet Scared Shitless: Albert Argibay, a bodybuilder and a state correction officer, was at a Planet Fitness gym with 500 pounds of weight on his shoulders one afternoon this month when the club manager walked over and told him it was time to leave. Mr. Argibay, the manager explained, had violated one of the club’s most sacred and strictly enforced rules: He was grunting. At Planet Fitness, some members say,

I’m just, y’know, asking. WASHINGTON (CNN)—Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O’Connor said at a conference last week. Barbara Joan March, a 60-year-old Connecticut woman, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. She sent 14 threatening letters in April 2005—each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison—to

Woman claims puppies were born to cat Brazilian says neighborhood mutt impregnated feline; tests due next week PASSO FUNDO, Brazil – Geneticist Adil Pacheco took blood samples on Friday from three puppies in a poor neighborhood in Passo Fundo in southern Brazil to settle a dispute over a claim they were born from a cat. “It’s rather simple really. If the puppies prove to have 78 chromosomes, they are dogs.

Sausages affected by draconian trade laws A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon. The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to avoid any confusion among customers. Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday that he had not received any

Tim Noah at Slate wonders whether the Dems oughtn’t Dump Pelosi? Hey, did you know that she’s the first ever female Speaker of the House?