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Send Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R- MD) a few bucks and a thank you:
Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday became the nation’s first Republican governor to sign into law a measure that relaxes criminal punishment for seriously ill people who use marijuana to relieve pain and other symptoms.
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Interesting article on the environment in the GOP in the Times this morning:
As Christie Whitman, the most prominent suburban woman in the Bush administration, steps down at E.P.A., the coverage primarily concerns the issues on which she was overruled. This ignores some of her significant achievements
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This post is in: Foreign Affairs
UN sanctions on Iraq have ended:
The United States and Britain won an international mandate today to occupy and rebuild Iraq, as the Security Council voted to end nearly 13 years of sanctions. It was a significant diplomatic victory for the Bush administration, as France, Germany and Russia, the principal opponents of the American-led war, lined up in support of the measure.
The resolution passed by a 14-to-0 vote this morning while the chair set aside for Syria, the lone Arab nation on the Council, remained empty. This afternoon, the Syrian charg
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This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
On Hardball, while discussing new gun laws to help fight terrorism (stop giggling), Chris Matthews and Frank Lautenberg had this exchange (paraphrased- I will correct when the transcript is up):
Matthews: “What do you do when these gun laws to stop terrorists from getting guns might keep a guy who just wants to hunt from getting a rifle?”
Lautenberg: “That is just a chance we have to take.”
Aye carumba.
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This post is in: Sports
IN MLB, if a pitcher throws the ball, it hits the ground and then hits the batter, what is this?
Does the batter get a base? Is it a wild pitch?
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Trying to get a straight answer on this issue is turning out to be impossible. I am going to try one more time.
You are sitting at a table, contemplating creating a fictional government. You are not at war, you have no budgetary needs, there are no starving children, welfare moms, bone thin elderly waiting on a social security check, uninsured sick, or anything of the sort. You are in a fictional world creating a fictional government. There are no rich, there are no poor, EVERYONE makes exactly the same amount of money. You ask yourself this question:
How much of my fictional citizen’s income do I think it is acceptable to take every year in the form of taxes. At what level of taxation would I say to myself, “X% is too much, it would be immoral to take that % from any individual.”
We’ll try this and see where we get.