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Democrat Charlie Rangel wants to bring back the draft.(The Week)(Brief article)
Democrat Charlie Rangel wants to bring back the draft. His chances of success are only slightly better than they were in 2004, when the House defeated his bill by a vote of 404-2. He is raising the issue in order to disseminate once again the canard that the poor are bearing a disproportionate share of the nation's war-fighting burden. In fact, a 2005 Heritage Foundation study found that the opposite is the case. In 1999, 18 percent of military enlistees came from the poorest quintile of the population. In 2003, that number dropped to 15 percent. By ...
- Charlie Rangel's taxes; Lexington.(Charlie Rangel's tax controversy)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 19, 2009 700+ words
...soldiers were cascading across the border into Korea. The Americans in their path were helplessly outnumbered. Private Charlie Rangel was lying in a gully where an explosion had tossed him, punctured with shrapnel and scared to death. He told Jesus that...
- Charlie Rangel just can't stay out of the news.(The Week)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: National Review December 29, 2008 700+ words
Charlie Rangel just can't stay out of the news. It emerges that the New York Democrat paid nearly $60,000 in campaign funds to a web-design...
- Charlie Rangel has ventured out from his complex of rent-controlled Manhattan...
- Magazine article from: National Review January 26, 2009 700+ words
Charlie Rangel has ventured out from his complex of rentcontrolled Manhattan apartments just long enough to get himself into another ethical soup...
- Charlie Rangel's budget travel: Castro puts him up.(Intelligencer)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: New York Gray, Geoffrey June 12, 2006 700+ words
REPRESENTATIVE Charlie Rangel has been scrambling to explain away inconsistencies surrounding a mission he and other New York power brokers took to meet with...
- Charlie Rangel's Cloud; An Ethics Case Could Drag Democrats Down
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Eugene Robinson October 9, 2009 700+ words
House Democrats had better start taking the ethics allegations against Rep. Charlie Rangel seriously. I know it's difficult for those steeped in Capitol Hill's hermetic culture to understand, but a verdict of "mistakes...
- Charlie Rangel.(Politics)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) December 19, 2005 700+ words
...appease Mr. Rangel and his constituents from the Dominican Republic. He voted against it regardless. "There is only one Charlie Rangel, and when he leaves, there is going to be a power vacuum," said Mr. Meeks, who added that Mr. Rangel's influence...
- Everybody loves Charlie Rangel, the raspy-voiced congressman from Harlem.(The...
- Magazine article from: National Review October 24, 2005 700+ words
* Everybody loves Charlie Rangel, the raspy-voiced congressman from Harlem. Good ol' "Chollie." He's a media darling, and even some conservatives can...
- Two (but not three) cheers for patriotism and Charlie Rangel.(THE LION'S DEN)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Royal, Robert October 13, 2006 700+ words
...superior to all the particular nationalisms, a sure recipe for something that will please absolutely no one. I doubt if Charlie Rangel had such lofty notions in his mind when Hugo Chavez dissed President Bush in his district. But he had somet
Source: HighBeam Research, Democrat Charlie Rangel wants to bring back the draft.(The...