In the wake of last week's White House decision that all military combat positions are now open to women, the Ninth Circuit is likely to rule that women are now required to register for the draft. Discuss.

I'm all for it. Leaving women out seemed pretty sexist to me. I don't think any military standards should be dropped, for women, volunteer or drafted (I'm aware many already have been...), but women who can't hack infantry can serve somewhere, somehow. I've got 3 girls and a boy, if that matters.

I'd actually like to see us require service of all young adults, like Israel. Might help with the entitlement attitude they've got.

"Might help with the entitlement attitude they've got."
Probably not We have been involved in so many conflicts since the last draft, the won't see it as a possibility. We will just use stop loss to fill the ranks. They also feel they have an auto-out "pregnancy".
I expect it will lower the # of women currently serving, but not by much and many of those who get assigned a front line post will wind up pregnant, and get an abortion after they are out of danger.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

An unofficial count of who and how people are killed by police. Rather informative when you look at it.Bunt not necessarily the way the black lives matter group wants. It does show that 520 Whites being killed while 266 Blacks, but when looked at as a % of population the blacks killed is about 2 times the rate of whites. So there may be something there. However, if you also look at the men vs women killed 1009 vs 48. Or as ratios men killed over 20 times as often. The BLM movement should actually be the mens lives matter.

On the national service thing, I read this yesterday, about Stanley Mcchrystal's national service plan which he's been pushing for a while. There's a fair amount of silliness in it, such as the idea that once universal national service is implemented, the GI Bill morphs into free college for everyone. But the basic idea has been pushed by people across the political spectrum; William F. Buckley advocated for it.

I don't. Here's what scares me about it: You've got hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of earnest fresh-faced youth who are eager to "make a difference" and ignorant about the ways of politics or the inherent hazards of big government. How hard would it be for a President or governor or other political executive of a totalitarian bent to organize them into brownshirt squads? Not very hard, I suspect. We're seeing how many powerful people today want to define their personal opponents as enemies of the state. What happens when such a person can call up 1000 "national servants" to disrupt an opposition rally? Or shut down a business run by a political undesirable? Or intimidate a particularly vociferous dissident into silence? Is this a power that we want our current ruling class to have? I don't.

The State of New Mexico (to their credit) has passed a law that bars civil asset forfeiture without a criminal conviction. The City of Albuquerque: "Law? What law? We don't see any law."