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Matt Welch at Reason is all up in arms over an ages-old report unearthed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Barack Obama supports equitable Selective Service requirements. Selective Service is — if you're not aware — a pre-draft procedure for which all men 18-25 have to register in case we decide to institute a draft. Women can't register for it since the military prevents us from serving in combat — although more than 100 female soldiers have died in Iraq. But what bringing up equity in the Selective Service is supposed to remind people of is not that we're involved in a war in which thousands of Americans are dying or anything, but that equal rights for women — and the great conservative boogeyman of the eighties, the Equal Rights Amendment — can be, like, bad. And of course us ladies don't want our equal rights if it means we gotta put the seat down in a public restroom and whatever. More »
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• The Republican National Committee has finally released its speaker line-up for the convention, which McCain spokesman Rick Davis says is designed "to showcase the 'diversity' of the Republican Party." [HuffPo]
• Which is why the line-up is 75% male and 86% white. "Diversity." [Washington Post]
• John McCain's doesn't question Obama's patriotism, just his judgment, so Obama should just shut up and accept that we need to keep on keeping on with the war in Iraq. [Politico]
• Which is why McCain would be cool with having a draft again, since once we're done in Iraq we'll still have Osama bin Laden to chase down and we won't have enough troops for that. [ThinkProgress]

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