I somehow missed a long thread on Metafilter about this. 

"A Democratic lawmaker said Sunday he will introduce a bill in the next session of Congress to make military service mandatory.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, said such legislation could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action.

"I'm going to introduce legislation to have universal military service to let everyone have an opportunity to defend the free world against the threats coming to us," Rangel said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"I'm talking about mandatory service.""

Hmmm, going to have to keep an eye on this one.  I don't imagine it will get too far.

"The Information Awareness Office finally seems to have picked up on the fact that its logo, noted in these parts a few months back, was -- to put it succinctly -- freaking people out. The IAO site now features a more subdued, corporate insignia, though compulsive Illuminati-watchers will note that it still includes a pyramid."

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"Fifteen years after withdrawing from his second presidential bid and quietly settling back into private law practice, Gary Hart has found his voice again.

Frustrated because people didn't listen to his warnings about terrorist attacks and worried about the future of the nation, Hart has done nothing to turn away attention generated when he hinted that he might seek the Democratic presidential nomination again.

But he declined to say when he would make a decision."

More speculation on Hart's plans.  He would seem to me to be a natural choice for these times we're living in.  He's an expert on security, homeland defense, and terrorism and he's got prior nationally spotlighted political experience - both positive and negative - from which to draw. 

More importantly, he's a Democrat from Colorado.  How many of those are in the national political scene outside the left-leaning bubbles of the People's Republic of Boulder and downtown Denver? ;)

[via Political Wire]