The recent announcement that the New York school system intends to open the Harvey Milk School?a separate high school for gay teens?raised some troubling issues.
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Now that Republicans are firmly in charge of both houses of Congress, they intend to enact laws further restricting a woman?s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
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The Great State of Texas
Texas is a strange place. It produces more executions (and more murders) than any other state. More of its citizens died from gunshots than highway accidents until, as Molly Ivins memorably recounts, the legislature decided to do something about that and raised the speed limits.
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Send the Legislators Back to School
What if a law was introduced that gave Kroger a tax credit and required Marsh to pay for it? The law would also require Marsh to hire anyone who applied for a job, whether or not the applicant could speak English or count, and whether or not Marsh needed more employees. Meanwhile, the state would conduct daily inspections of Marsh?s produce (but not Kroger?s) and issue stiff fines when the fruit didn?t measure up.
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Libertarians insist that the political spectrum is not a straight line, with "right-wingers" on one end and "left-wingers" on the other. Instead, it is a circle, where extremists on opposite poles touch?and share a desire to impose their particular brands of political correctness on the rest of us. Extremists may disagree on ideology, but they share a real fondness for authoritarianism.
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