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A 21-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested for attempting to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville with a fake bomb supplied by federal agents. Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate what he believed to be a vehicle bomb this morning at the Armed Forces Career Center in the 5400 block of Baltimore National Pike. Court records paint Martinez as obsessed with Jihad and intent on punishing the military. He praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ordinances approved by voters in Arcata and Eureka to prohibit military recruiters from contacting minors are unconstitutional attempts to regulate the federal government and limit its authority over the armed forces, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The measures, which won majorities of 73 percent in Arcata and 57 percent in Eureka in November 2008, were promoted as protections for local youths from heavy-handed and misleading recruiting pitches. Backers in the Humboldt County communities cited an international treaty, signed by the United States, that bars military recruitment of youngsters under 17. The ordinances prohibited contacting youths under...

On Kagan opposing military recruiters at Harvard Law: "She was right. ... All during that period, she has reached out to veterans in the law school, she has been at promotions ceremonies, she's recognized veterans coming to the law school. So this is not a single bit of anti-military bias. She does think, and I agree with her, that the don't-ask-don't-tell policy is a very bad policy."

Peace activists want equal access to Los Angeles high schools to counter military recruiters they describe as "car salesmen" bent on meeting quotas. The Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools says it's vital for students to have unvarnished information about military service. The coalition promotes nonviolent alternatives to military service. Group coordinator Arele Inouye says recruiters "have a quota and it's their job to get students to sign up. So just like a car salesman, they're going to say everything they can to get students to sign up." The group's access proposal could be considered by the school board next...

A few months ago, a day before one of the occasional marches the Capital sees demanding an end to the Iraq War, I began the descent into the Metro stop near my office, looked up, and saw a number of representatives of Code Pink standing at the railing overlooking the escalator. Or rather, I heard them first. They were screaming at the parade of commuters, at the top of their lungs and in a tone somewhere between simple frustration and righteous anger, "End the war!!!" Well, I thought, that ought to take care of things. Good work, hippies! I kid...

Ordinarily, the anti-war left only grates on me a bit, having seen them as they are for 35 years now. Tonight, however, on the blog of a local Talk Show, Victoria Taft @ KPAM AM 860 in Portland, Oregon, one sunk as low as I have ever seen one go. Below is their post; Roger Doger said... About the Oregonian Story regarding parents that don't want their children prayed upon by Military recruiters. I don't blame them one bit. You recall reports about military recruiters lying to new recruits, right? In the day and age where child predators are out...

Just Breaking!!!! Supreme Court Upholds "Colleges who accept Federal Funds must allow Military Recruiters"

Leave My Child Alone! A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting...

SAN FRANCISCO — Anti-war activists submitted a ballot measure Monday that would put the city on record as opposing the presence of military recruiters in public high schools and colleges. The nonbinding "College Not Combat" resolution acknowledges that a ban would put schools at risk of losing federal funding. If the measure qualifies for the November ballot and is approved by voters, it would encourage city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters — even if it means forsaking government dollars — and to create scholarships and training to reduce the military's appeal to youth.

As bombs continue to explode in the Middle East, and U.S. armed forces search for fresh recruits, one source of young servicemen and women has become increasingly difficult to tap. Some high schools, emboldened by parents and legislators, are raising their own defenses against the military. The Albany school board is expected to set restrictions for military recruiters this summer. The Alameda County Board of Education recently considered a resolution urging parents to keep their children's information from military recruiters. And Castro Valley High School parents are fighting to put Quaker brochures next to Marines pamphlets in the career center....

When The New York Times, “Nightline,” and CNN nominate a young blonde for sainthood ahead of the Pope, it’s time for a reality check. Especially when that blonde, Marla Ruzicka’s sole purpose is to legitimize our enemies, cause problems for U.S. troops already in harms way, and morally equivocate dead terrorists with victims of 9/11. Jane Fonda lite—but unfortunately without having been spat upon by right-thinking veterans. The recent death of Ruzicka, an American “activist” in Iraq, elicited an orgy of gush—everywhere from Time Magazine to The Guardian of London to Al-Jazeera. A 28-year-old San Franciscan, Ruzicka was in Iraq...

A mob of Seattle Central Community College students chased military recruiters off campus last month, after a tense confrontation. Now a student anti-war group is stepping up efforts to keep them out for good. Students Against War has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading administrators to order a halt to on-campus military recruiting. The group points to a November ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Philadelphia-based court held that a college opposed to the policy barring gays and lesbians in the armed forces has a First Amendment right to protest by blocking access to military...

(New Haven-WTNH, Apr. 8, 2005 6:12 PM) _ An editorial in the campus newspaper at Southern Connecticut State University is causing quite a stir. People are talking not just about what was said, but about how it was said. by News Channel 8's Chris Velardi Editorials are meant to create a buzz and an editorial in this week's Southern News is doing just that. The article criticizes the campus job fair and it really goes after military recruiters. "This has gotten a stronger reaction than anything we've written in the Southern News in a long time," says editor-in-chief Kevin Miner,...

HAYWARD - The Alameda County Office of Education is scheduled to vote tonight on a resolution tonight that would encourage parents to not release their children's personal information to military recruiters on high school campuses. The board is scheduled to vote on the item at 5:45 p.m. The county office is located at 313 W. Winton Ave. in Hayward. The federal No Child Left Behind act gives the Pentagon access to students' names, addresses and phone numbers so they may be contacted and recruited for military service, according to the county office. Schools that get funds under the act cannot...

(New Haven-WTNH, Oct. 4, 2002 Updated 6:15 PM) _ Military recruiters came under attack by dozens of Yalies Friday. A group of students and professors says the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy clashes with the university's anti-discrimination policy. It's a quiet protest that several Yale Law School students and professors hope will speak volumes. They're defending the universities non-discrimination policy. "When we see Department of Defense kind of strong arming us, trying to push us away from that principal, people stand up and say no were not going to allow that to happen," Yale student Matt Alsdorf said. Since...