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"Your Liberty is Our Interest" |
February 3, 2003 | |
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Thanks to the Crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and to Other Great Risk Takers By Theresa Fritz Camoriano We were all very surprised when we learned that the Columbia had broken apart during its return to Earth, and we mourn the loss of the seven crew members. Most of us (I, for one) would be too chicken to take a flight in space, considering it to be too risky. But the astronauts competed with many other eager risk-takers to be able to participate in a space flight. (click to read more) Campaign reform or constitution reform? By George Baumler We need campaign finance reform, or so say all the pundits and those firmly entrenched in power. How about a little scrutiny into the so-called campaign reforms already enacted and how they are destroying the very freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? A careful examination of 2 USC 431, a bill passed in the name of campaign finance reform, seems to do just that. (click to read more) Demand An Autopsy of the Constitution! By John Riley Our Constitution is in peril! Take for example the current death blow on the 1st Amendment regarding the freedom of the press which says: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press. That’s not hard to understand! (click to read more) AUTO COMPETITIVE TRANSIT SERVICE? NOT EVEN IN A SNOWSTORM By Wendell Cox It began snowing in St. Louis on Wednesday afternoon, January 22, 2003. I was due to leave from Lambert International Airport at just before 8:00 pm for a trip to Raleigh-Durham to speak to a business group on urban sprawl, so-called “smart growth” and urban rail. Usually, I allow 45 minutes for the 35 mile trip, but since St. Louis drivers are only slightly better adapted to snow than Los Angelenos, I left an hour early. (click to read more) MAIL MOMENTS By Terry Gray The United States Postal Service recently conducted a survey to determine and establish the importance of the mail. They sent surveys to 2,606 respondents. Two questions I would consider asking the designers of this survey. (click to read more)
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Columbus - A Risk-Taker Who pushed Back the Frontiers of Ignorance
The
fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take
The ultimate
result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world
with fools.
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