Customs and Border Protection has moved to ban import of all knives with springs, or knives that can be opened with one hand. This is ridiculous, as these are no more dangerous than any other knife. All it will do is make these knives more expensive, and hurt knife manufacturers, which will destroy jobs (because [...]
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) this proposed amendment: (d) MINIMUM TYPE-SIZE AND FONT REQUIREMENT FOR CREDIT CARD APPLICATIONS AND DISCLOSURES.- All written information, provisions, and terms in or on any application, solicitation, contract, or agreement for any credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan, and all written information included in or on any [...]
The more I hear about digital national health records, the more I worry about them with regards to security. Various interpretations of the new legislation in the 2009 Stimulus bill could mean anything from implementing something like SAFEHealth, a decentralized system, to something like Google Health, which would centralize medical records. I expect that a [...]
This is really sad. Obviously, a knife’s only reason is to kill people. They might as well just ban them everywhere, or require a license to cook. EAST Anglia’s largest independent retailer has announced it is withdrawing knives from sale in all its outlets with immediate effect. The East of England Co-operative Society said it [...]
After reading the Wikipedia article on the subject, which doesn’t really give a definition of what un-American should mean, I figured I might try to think about it myself. What defines being American? Since it only really concerns the government at the present time, it should be fairly easy to define. American We are free [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Paul vehemently denounced the $410 billion catch-all spending bill approved last week by the House of Representatives. But although the libertarian-leaning Republican from Lake Jackson cast a vote against the massive spending measure, his fingerprints were on some of the earmarks that helped inflate its cost. … His earmarks included repair [...]
I’d donate if I wasn’t locked into rich-status! Look at my options compared to hers (I donated a lot more to the campaign in 2007):
Obama’s America Serves had some interesting plans laid out yesterday that were quickly changed today… Old Version (11/6/2008) “When you choose to serve – whether it’s your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood – you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just [...]
