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Senator Cornyn, I have voted for you every time you have faced election since coming to Texas 21 years ago. However, now you are negotiating away my rights and those of my family and fellow citizens. The very idea (let alone the practical application) of a "Red Flag" law is in violation of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments - and giving tax dollars to the states to do that dirty deed would be just as gross of a violation of those rights by operation of the 14th Amendment. Senator Cornyn, you KNOW this - you were on...

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Victor Valley Union High School District Superintendent, William Weiner, said teachers need to learn to interpret their students’ body language. “Teacher should not provoke students by asking them for their homework, insisting that they take their seats, or that they refrain from using foul language,” Weiner said. “It’s their school too. We have no right to make demands on them. We can’t expect to confine them to a routine that they reject. And we certainly can’t stifle their freedom of speech just because it is inelegant.” Not all teachers are comfortable with the new “emphasis.” “They say it’s not a...

I am tired of listening to Shep Smith from fox news in describing the fighting in Beirut. I have watched intently and am disgusted with him. It is quite apparent Shep is a liberal and has an agenda. He will make small comments in his reporting taking cheap shots at Israel, yet making Hezbollah look strong. I just watched him interview some young Israel soldiers and the ones he put in his report were anything but seasoned soldiers. Shep would ask them questions like "Are you scared?", "are Hezbollah fierce fighters?", etc. It was sickening. Heh Shep, while don't you...

It was a beautiful spring evening just after work and I was walking the few blocks to where my car was parked. I noticed a gentleman that I had met just a week or so prior, on a previous hike out to our parked cars. The first time we met he was walking with another acquaintance of mine and we barley exchanged names, but at least I knew I had met him before. This time would be different.

The crew at Pow3rline points us to this exceptional shredding of Erica Jong at, of all places, the Huffington Post. "1. Are you allowed to drive a car? Y/N 2. Must you be accompanied at all times in public by a male escort? Y/N 3. If you were to say "what the hell" and drive to the mall by yourself, would you be immediately surrounded by bat-wielding male police officers? Y/N 4. Could you be beaten for saying “what the hell”? Y/N 5. When you go outside on a hot summer day, can you wear shorts and a t-shirt? Y/N...

Well, that time has come for me. I’m leaving FR. However, I do not consider this an “opus”, as I am NOT going to use it to rehash old slights or arguments, or to give my personal opinion of what “should be done around here”. As has been so often pointed out, this is Jim Robinson’s site, and he runs it as he sees fit. Rather, all I’m going to do here is give a general reason for my departure, and say a hearty-but-sad “GOODBYE!” to all the folks here who have enriched my life in the past four years....