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THE MISDEMEANOR GUN BAN: Congress slides dangerously far from the Constitution by Alan Korwin The new federal Gun Ban For Individuals Convicted Of A Misdemeanor Crime Of Domestic Violence removes civil rights for anyone who violates it, or anyone who violated its requirements before it was passed. Congress has exceeded its delegated authority here, even though the intention is a noble one. The new law increases the list of prohibited possessors people who may not have, ship, transport, or get firearms or ammunition under federal law. Anyone ever convicted of a minor violation involving use or attempted use of physical...

American Red Cross January 6,2003 Dear (Former Donor) RED CROSS WANTS TO WELCOME YOU BACK AS A BLOOD DONOR! We wrote you after your last donation to advise you of a mild alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation discovered when we tested your blood. ALT is an enzyme found in the liver as well as other parts of the body. ALT may be elevated for a variety of reasons,which may include exercise, moderate alcohol consumption or being overweight. Even some types of over-the-counter medications may cause elevated ALT levels. Scientific information recently presented at a National Institutes of Health conference demonstrated that...

Policy Analysis No.17                  September 23, 1982 GOLD, PAPER, OR...: IS THERE A BETTER MONEY? by David Friedman David Friedman is a professor in the law school and the economics department at Santa Clara University. Also see his Web page. Executive Summary Alternative monetary systems are too often discussed in the context of current policy debates: Will gold cure inflation? Is tight money strangling the economy? Should the Fed be independent? Instead, I will ignore the particular problems of 1982 in order to evaluate the monetary alternatives that face any society. I shall try to consider separately two...

'Felony stop' leaves family traumatized Mary Jo Denton Herald-Citizen Staff It was the most traumatic experience the Smoak family of North Carolina has ever had, and it happened yesterday afternoon as they traveled through Cookeville on their way home from a vacation in Nashville. Before their ordeal was over, three members of the family had been yanked out of their car and handcuffed on the side of Interstate 40 in downtown Cookeville, and their beloved dog, Patton, had been shot to death by a police officer as they watched. **************************** About that time, he heard the officer broadcast orders over...

NEW YORK - The coming assault on Baghdad already has its first hero: Colonel John Boyd, a foul-mouthed, insubordinate fighter pilot who has been in his grave at Arlington National Cemetery for almost five years. When Iraq's tyrant is brought down, that inevitable victory will be Boyd's doing. You won't hear Boyd's name being cited in Rose Garden speeches, however. Nor will the Pentagon be authorising any posthumous decorations for the man who, through 30 years of bureaucratic guerilla warfare, transformed America's military. Even though he gave them many of the tools that made Operation Desert Storm such a sweeping...

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN In case you are interested, there is now a web site dedicated to seat belt law opposition which was created by someone in the Chicago area. The web site address is: www.seatbeltchoice.com In Washington state there is a group working to repeal their seat belt law. The web site address is: www.clickitstickit.com Another web site worth viewing (still in the composition stage) is: www.sukkahs.com/seatbelt www.sukkahs.com/seatbelt/ticket.htm

The Life and Ideas of Frédéric Bastiat Part 2: Bastiat Knew the Socialist Mind by Jim Peron A century and a half ago the French parliamentarian Frédéric Bastiat wrote: "It is evident that the socialists set out in quest of an artificial social order only because they deemed the natural order to be either bad or inadequate; and they deemed it bad or inadequate only because they felt that men's interests are fundamentally antagonistic, for otherwise they would not have recourse to coercion. It is not necessary to force into harmony things that are inherently harmonious." Nobel Laureate F. A....