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• ‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me’: Woman Reportedly Ticketed for Driving 2 Mph UNDER the Speed Limit

  March 13, 2013 at 1:10am

  On one hand, as a driver who routinely drives 5 miles over the speedlimit, I get the vibe of the complaints. She is in the way and more likely to be hit if she is slowing down and just stays in the left lane. If the left lane is truly a passing lane only, then it makes it even more sense that she would get a ticket.

  On the other hand, she’s not exactly driving slow at 63. I cannot expect the ‘fast lane’ was intended to be used by those who are exceeding the speed limit, so going 63 in a 65 zone would technically be going ‘fast’ in the fast lane. But if you use the ‘only for passing’ rule, then she can’t get out of the ticket unless she was actually passing someone – which appears unlikely.

  I dislike the hostile comments that encourage her to be run off the road or calling her a granny driver because she was driving just under the legal limit. It is obvious that I am not the only driver who routinely exceeds the speed limit, and it appears that some of those who break the law actually think it’s not normal or even acceptable to drive at or just under that limit.

  Does anyone else think it’s odd to gripe that someone is getting in the way of you breaking the law?

• Has Gun Ownership in American Homes Really Decreased This Dramatically?

  March 11, 2013 at 9:54am

  If gun ownership is in decline, then how come gun violence is on the rise? If the trend is less gun ownership it sounds like they are getting their way so why bother with gun control? But if less gun ownership is related to more gun violence, then the logic is to increase gun ownership.

  What seriously troubles me more is how the educators in the schools are villifying children to indoctrinate the next generation of kids to see guns as evil. Poptart guns and bubble-gun terrorists?That’s a battle we need to be fighting for our kids.

• Minister Told by State Rep to ‘By All Means, Leave’ Wyoming Stands Her Ground

  February 28, 2013 at 10:10pm

  I am disappointed. I get the ‘disgust’ factor, but all this vitriol is just plain wrong. Free speech is free speech. We either respect the Constitution or we don’t. You cannot get on this page and salute the flag over every hint of liberal name-calling and then turn around and do the exact same thing to someone else. It’s the height of hypocrisy. If some lady from the South moved to California (which I know seems weird, but it happens) and took the time to exercise some political expression, it would take the liberals in Cali about 30 seconds to tell her she ought to GO BACK where she came from. I expect I would hear the roar of the conservative masses coming to her defense. And well we should. Free speech! Rights! A bunch of Bullies! That is what they would be. Bullies. And that is what you are when you do the same thing. Shame on anyone who claims conservatism and stomps all over the rights of others when they disagree.

• Why Kids Inherit Dad’s Last Name Instead of Mom’s — You Might Not Have Considered the Reasons Before

  February 20, 2013 at 8:22am

  Significant but oft-overlooked point: women got their names from their fathers (or their grandfathers in the case where maiden names have already been used), so regardless of the name selection the child will get the name of a male family member. There is no undoing it. If a woman wants to have her own last name with no patriarchy attached, she’d have to make one up.

• See What This Alleged Man of God Wrote on a Tip Receipt That Has a Lot of People Upset

  January 31, 2013 at 7:37am

  She claimed the patron was not allowed to break up a $200 tab for a party of more than 8 people, but the receipt is for $35, which is rather cheap for a party of more than 8 people. So the story falls apart. I suspect she got stiffed (whether she deserved it or not is unknown) and she wrote the words in herself. The writing of the note seems very different from the writing style of the numbers in the total, and the Pastor note above the name has an odd placement. Maybe she knew it was a pastor and wrote the note herself or maybe she just wanted to shame Christianity. The fact that her story doesn’t even hold water in it’s basic form is at least a reason to doubt the rest.

• Science and the GOP

  November 24, 2012 at 5:59pm

  In reply to rwinger261.

  TO Theodwulf:
  Why do we perceive beauty? Maybe it’s a chemical thing in the brain, but God didn’t do it! How do we know right from wrong? It’s a cultural construct, God didn’t do it! Why do we value human life? We’re no different than animals so we are just preserving our species, but God has nothing to do with it! Why is it that religion persists in the world and even atheists often admit to the perception of a ‘higher power’ that they choose NOT to believe in? Well, it must be a failure of evolution or maybe leftovers from primitive culture, but it is most certainly NOT GOD!

  Reason, logic and observation can prove some things but it can rarely disprove anything. Reason must be fully rational, logic must be infallible and observation must be all-knowing to accomplish what you suggest. The arguments for God and against God are not very persuasive on either side. You choose the lense you wish to look through and that determines how you see things. What we call science today is not always true science. What we call religion today is not always true religion. Pick your poison, but don’t act like you are above it all or that you have achieved some higher level of clarity. Accept that you are likely wrong about many things – whether your religion is God or Science. Be fully persuaded in your mind and let others do the same.

• Santorum: ‘The Constitution Is There to Do One Thing: Protect God-Given Rights’

  January 27, 2012 at 2:25am

  In reply to honor007.

  I had serious trouble with Ron Paul’s stance on foreign policy until this week. A few things changed my mind. First, he has more support from the military than ALL the other candidates put together. That ought to mean something. I have heard him speak about the role of the military as necessarily strong because it’s their job to protect us. Second, we are at a place economically that we just can’t afford to police the world or send aid to everybody (particularly China!). His policies would put a serious dent in our overseas commitments, and no true conservative can object to that. Third, all this nation-building has done nothing but dirty our hands and kill our troops. We did, after all, give weapons to bin Ladin for years before he became enemy number one. The CIA said we created the blowback that caused the Iran hostage crisis back in the late seventies because we funded the efforts to overthrow their government, which ironically put in control the powers we are currently fending off. Hussein was our ally for years because of the mess we created in Iran. Fourth, we need to get our troops home before the situation in the world becomes so volatile that we find ourselves to be targets for any and every nut case within range of an overseas base.

  I know Ron Paul is not the prettiest or best dressed. But he has support from practically every strata. Please reconsider Paul. Santorum is good. But Paul is better than you think.

• Filmmaker Oliver Stone Would Vote for Ron Paul Over Obama

  January 27, 2012 at 1:56am

  In reply to Malcom0983.

  I agree. I wish the Tea Party would wake up to the fact that this is OUR GUY. But I have to admit I just got on board myself this week. He just seemed so unelectable to me until I realized just what you posted – he has support from every front except the GOP establishment. The media ignore him because he’s not pretty. But he is the only serious Constitutionalist we have. If we can get the Senate and Ron Paul, we can bulldoze half of D.C. in a year and balance the budget in four. Newt and Romney are going to be the same song, different verse. Santorum just doesn’t seem up to it. Paul is tougher than he looks – and YES, even electable. I know it’s scary. But we can’t just keep voting for the pretty guy who uses the right lexicon.

• Filmmaker Oliver Stone Would Vote for Ron Paul Over Obama

  January 27, 2012 at 1:47am

  In reply to Malcom0983.

  If Stone, Maher or any other liberal supports Paul, then I consider that a plus for him. It is difficult to imagine how any other Constitutionalist out there could even come close to pulling those votes. I just decided earlier this week to give Ron Paul a serious look and I don’t really understand why the rest of Tea Partiers don’t give him more attention. I was concerned he might be isolationist. But NOT being interventionist is not the same as being isolationist. Besides, we cannot afford to continue policing the world. We need our troops home so they can defend US. And I am sure Paul would make his first order of business cutting off all this foreign aid to countries like China. What’s not to support?

• Occupy Enlists Army of Lawyers to Sue Over ‘Free Speech Violations’

  December 23, 2011 at 1:33pm

  I don’t mind the lawsuits, but I do have some concern about activist judges and how they might rule in these cases. If there was some over-reach on the part of the police, it needs to be discovered. Free speech is a protected right and if they were protesting peacefully and lawfully, I would have preferred the police to stay out of it. But I suspect all those videos the police were shooting will tell an interesting story.