Sorry kids, but if you have to live on your parents insurance until you are 26, then that is when you become an adult.
Don’t like it? Then vote accordingly.
I wonder if we could all agree on this: The Federal Government should have ZERO SAY in this question. And the idea that they would coerce states into acting against their will on this or any other local issue, by threatening to withhold OUR OWN tax dollars is beyond the pale.
Let’s see, the special prosecutor concluded the “victim” made the whole thing up, the original prosecutor was disbarred for prosecutorial improprieties, the University settled with the accused for millions of dollars, and the “victim,” who had been in trouble before, continued getting into trouble and is now in prison for murder. Yet the author of this article strongly implies that the lack of prosecution was a miscarriage of justice. Idiot!
19 months no doubt. Why start with teenagers.
For a long time I’ve thought the legal drinking age should be the day you graduate from high school, or 19 if you didn’t graduate by then, or ever.
That would get drinking out of the high schools (provided there was enforcement, of course.
The problem now is that even most adults think it’s silly that a 20 year old, working, possibly married with child, adult can’t drink a beer or mixed drink legally. So everyone ignores the law. Kids see everyone ignoring the law, so they figure it’s no big deal to drink in high school, or earlier.
It was the same when Congress lowered the speed limit to 55 on the interstate in the 70’s to save fuel. Everyone ignored it and drove 70-75 anyway, but the effect on the kids riding in the back seats was to teach them that speed limits meant nothing.
The 19 or a high school diploma cutoff would be respected by most adults, and kids would learn the same respect. Combine that with decent enforcement and we could seriously curb teenage drinking.
Don’t let facts get in the way. He is rehearsing for a stint at the New York Times.
Nifong spent a day in jail, but this idiot communist hack isn’t interested. He has an agenda to espouse.
With a trial, convicted murderer, drug addict, hooker and upstanding Mike Nifong "victim" got 14 years. She is now in -- as far as society is concerned -- a far better place.
The only void where a trial is still crying out for the application of justice with these principle players is the trial for Mike Nifong. Until that happens, justice will never be served.
Registration for selective service is mandatory at age 18. If you can trust someone with a handgrenade, you can trust them with a beer.
Stupid idiot. He apparently thinks that there is a national drinking age. There isn’t. Some states tried the 19 year old age when the 18 year old voting passed. Many of those states found out it was more problematic than helpful so they RAISED the drinking age back to 21.
these man is a putz.
What happened at Duke had nothing whatsoever to do with drinking. A mentally disturbed woman made a preposterous accusation that various people chose to believe
Drinking age 18
Blood level. Point one
Common sense
I remember a Mike Royko column in which he discussed the drinking age, pointing out that drunk 18-year-olds are generally drunker and more obnoxious than drunk 19-year-olds, drunk 19-year-olds generally worse than drunk 20-year-olds, etc. In the column, he went to his fictitious bar to interview some of the customers, and one of these delivered a line that will always stay with me: “If they think they’re having fun, they’re not old enough.”