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Congress Considers the Draft

Paul Jacob has a long history of activism in opposition to (and argument against) military conscription in a free society.

Why I Refuse to Register
United States v Paul Jacob (transcript)
from 1987 (December 6, 2014): Video Time Capsule (The Draft)
December 26, 2015: Ron Paul on Conscription (video)

Key Columns:

December 28, 2003: Draft Congress and Leave My Kids Alone (Townhall)
January 4, 2004: Americans Gung Ho to Draft Congress (Townhall)

Advocacy at Common Sense & Townhall:

April 19, 2018: Leave Those Kids Alone
December 12, 2018: For Genderless Freedom
February 14, 2016: Aspirational Involuntary Servitude (Townhall)
December 4, 2016: Obama’s New Rite (Townhall)
December 6, 2011: Following My Conscience
October 27, 2017: Daughter Draft
June 16, 2016: Equal of Free
May 19, 2016: Not Drafting Our Daughters
January 20, 2016: Junk the Law

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Today in Freedom

On this day in 1833, Denison Olmsted was alerted by his neighbors to something truly amazing, a night sky filled with shooting stars.

Not just a one or two or a dozen or a hundred: 72,000 or more per hour. Though recognizing where among the constellations meteors came from was ancient knowledge, it had not been recorded by modern-era scientists, at least in this case. What Olmsted noticed was that the meteors were coming from one point in the sky, the constellation Leo. This regular meteor event is now called the Leonid meteor stream.

In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

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