Somehow, I was just not surprised at all to hear that the FBI has admitted to abusing its powers under the Patriot Act. You can read all kinds of stories about this. I find the slants on each site interesting. Fox News, for example, just lightly mentions it, then goes on to discuss President Bush’s [...]
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Hillary Clinton hopes to make it so. She is bringing back her Paycheck Fairness Act which is an attempt to require that men and women be paid equally for equal work.
I read about this over on Bring It On!, and the debate there is quite interesting. Once other factors are accounted for, it can be [...]
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A lot of schools test students for drugs these days. So do some parents, as drug tests are quite easily available. But it may not be that good an idea.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has found, however, that testing has not been shown to have an impact on drug use. They also feel it may [...]
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Here in California, Republican State Sen. Bob Dutton and Democrat Sen. Darrel Steinberg have been promoting a bill to give every child born in California, starting in 2008, a $500 savings account. This would have, of course, included the children of illegal immigrants.
The amount of controversy about this bill caused Dutton to cease supporting the [...]
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The comment just wasn’t that funny, honey. I don’t care how much the audience laughed when you joked that you’d call John Edwards a faggot if it weren’t for the fact that you’d have to go into rehab for using that word. The “joke” is frankly offensive and childish.
Garbage like that is a symptom of [...]
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Ohio is considering issuing green license plates to habitual, child-oriented sexual offenders. It’s an interesting concept, and really gets into whether or not habitual offenders ought to be labeled in some way. The Scarlet Letter immediately came to my mind upon reading this. Except the crime is far more horrendous.
Ohio already has a similar law [...]
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