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California has long been known as the land of “fruits and nuts” – a mentality that permeates every aspect of life there – and it never ends. The latest fiascoes involve “law and order” – or at least, what one would assume deals with the law and the orderly adherence to it. But this is California we’re talking about, and like Alice through the Looking Glass, nothing is what it seems. The state has passed gun-control laws, laws regulating items purchased, requiring ammunition identification that is impossible to do, and even changing the laws to reduce the penalties for crimes....

Raising the minimum legal age to buy products like cigarettes and chewing tobacco has been the goal of Texas Democrats for at least a decade. But with Republicans decrying the effort as an infringement on personal liberty that could cost the state millions of dollars in lost tax revenue, the wish went up in smoke every time it was proposed. Five times, Uresti has tried to convince fellow lawmakers that hiking the smoking age will save lives and reduce the state’s health care costs in the long term. He started small in 2007, proposing Texas raise the tobacco purchase age...

Sniper puts heat on gun lobby Clarence Page Jewish World Review Oct. 11, 2002 While President Bush was addressing the nation from Cincinnati about the potential threat Saddam Hussein poses for our nation, folks in and around the nation's capital were grappling with a very real and present terrorist close to home. They call him "the Sniper." I am presuming that the Sniper is a "he" because of the knowledge we already have gathered from the similar sickos who came before him. Sure, women kill sometimes, but seldom in such an impersonal way. Serial sniping is, for the most part,...