California and Washington passed a cell phone law that prohibits driving while using a cell phone. We all do it and a lot of people complain about it.
Mark Twain once said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”
This is a case where the ’statistics’ can be [...]

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Public schools should be required to report illegal aliens. It doesn’t make sense not report illegal aliens. I remember having to check a box to report if I was American Indian or Eskimo and so on. It shouldn’t be too much to ask an illegal alien to report their status?
There is a [...]

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The Supreme Court today upheld the Second Amendment with it’s ruling that citizens have the right to own handguns. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the long standing law in Washington D.C. that banned the ownership of handguns and outlawed keeping a handgun in the home.
Justice Scalia wrote the opinion. [...]

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The D.C. gun ban legislation prohibits residents from keeping handguns inside their homes and requires that lawfully registered guns, such as shotguns, be locked and unloaded when kept at home. The law was appealed by gun ownership advocates and defenders of the U.S. Constitution and the Appeals Court found the law unconstitutional.
Defenders of the [...]

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Obama recently announced that he is not going to use the Publice Funding funding available for Presidential candidates. 
Public Funding was created after Richard Nixon’s campaign when he far outspent his opponent in the election.  At the time, the public opinion was that he had a big advantage, because of donations from wealthy individuals and corporations.  [...]

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McCain’s healthcare plan isn’t perfect, but it’s got a good solid design. We should look at the good parts and not find fault with the weaker parts. The democratic process of negotiating a final plan insures that the weak parts never make it to the final legislation anyway.
The best part of his plan [...]

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Surveillance cameras are a new tool and the majority of Americans approve of the use of surveillance. Maybe that’s because they are fed up with the increase in crime. But, there isn’t an increase in crime, there is just an increase in the media coverage of criminal events. The technology is also [...]

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State and local conservation officials met in New Orleans to discuss the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone is caused from the polluted Mississippi River water flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. The water is saturated with excess nutrients from fertilizer from farms and cities. This nutriet causes [...]

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“Iran with a nuclear weapon would be incredibly dangerous for world peace,” President Bush declared on Monday, June 9 during his meetings with European Union (EU) leaders. “And so we’ve got to continue to work together to make it clear, abundantly clear to them, that it’s their choice to make: They can either face isolation [...]

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