Originally posted at Random Rants from an Airline Employee
The October 22nd edition of Central Michigan Life had an editorial starting out by claiming that Michigan should enact anti-smoking legislation because 22 other states have passed such legislation. That was bad enough. However to make it worse, they decided to attempt justifying the legislation through self determined economic benefits of prohibiting smoking in bars and restaurants. They’re journalists, not economists.

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The following is a letter to the editor I had printed in Central Michigan Life, Central Michigan University’s school rag. I wrote it in response to a previous letter to the editor.

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Originally posted at Random Rants from an Airline Employee

The problem with the GOP is that you get people sporting the label who really aren’t for limited government. In fact, there are those so bad that they admit that they’re going to vote for a tax hike to support a zoo; something that should clearly be a concern for private enterprise. Fortunately in this above case, the effect of this citizen’s actions, should it pass, is of limited geographical scope – not that it makes it any more tolerable. However, there are those running for, or currently in, public office who run under the GOP banner and do things much worse than support a local tax hike to support a zoo. Unfortunately, one such person is the Republican candidate for President – John McCain.

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Cross posted at Random Rants from an Airline Employee

This past December, I wrote a pretty lengthy piece on No-Knock warrants, and why they are not only unconstitutional, but just plain wrong.

Well, just a few days ago, there was another case of a no-knock raid that got botched all to hell.

In my previous article, I argued that no-knock warrants lend for violations of the 4^th and 5^th amendments based strictly on their very nature. This latest botched raid only further proves that point.

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