EARLIER THIS year, I was moved to write about the victims of gun crimes who are considered fortunate survivors because they were 'only' shot and injured - when, in fact, many of these 'lucky' victims, their families and care-givers are sentenced to a lifetime of unimaginable suffering and need. The constraints of space will only allow me to provide one example. There is a young man I have known since bis boyhood and have watched him grow into an incredibly decent, caring, responsible, progressive and hard-working young man - just the kind of person whom our country desperately needs. We are quick to legislate burdensome, punitive and sometimes oppressive measures in the name of taxation or crimefighting. However, we officially ignore the weak, the helpless, the many victims of crime and...
Gay marriage ban would legislate morality To the editor:
Provinces have jurisdiction says new paper from The School of Public Policy CALGARY, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Earlier this year the federal government introduced sector-by-sector emissions reduction regulations as its stand on climate change. However, according to Prof. Al Lucas and co-author Jenette Yearsley, the Constitution limits Ottawa's ability to enact climate change legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, Canada can only enact comprehensive emission limits if the provinces are at the table and agree to the plan.
Contrary to manufactured hysteria, a recent Supreme Court ruling will not allow drug dealers to skirt prosecution in Virginia. There is no need for Gov. Tim Kaine to hasten lawmakers to a special session -- at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars the commonwealth can ill afford -- as has been suggested by an attorney general candidate. At issue is the court's ruling last month in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. In a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that defendants' right to confront their accusers at trial extends to forensic scientists who test evidence used against them, a right denied by Massachusetts. The ruling means that the prosecution must now make the witnesses available. Every state that does not already do this is affected.
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Humane Association is looking forward to examining a proposal announced today for federal legislation by United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States to move egg-laying hens into the kind of "enriched colony systems" long endorsed and promoted by American Humane Association. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101108/DC97343LOGO )
Dick Durbin's got a good idea. The year 2010 is already a nightmare for progressives, and it's only January. In one week alone, the health-care bill derailed, the liberal radio network Air America went silent, and the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment allows corporations to pump as much money as they want into political campaigns. I've got no answers on the first two, but a few suggestions for avoiding despair on the third, the most serious threat to American democracy in a generation. In a devastating decision, the high court cleared the way for one of those corporate takeovers you read about, only much bigger. If Exxon wants to spend $1 million (a bar tab for Big Oil) defeating an environmentalist running for city council, it can now do so. If Goldman Sachs wants to pay the...
When Joelle Beaubien's sister was stabbed to death in Killingworth Feb. 11 by an ex-boyfriend who then committed suicide, Beaubien spoke out. She said she was angry and frustrated by a justice system that she believed failed to protect Michelle Woolley from the ex- boyfriend, David Coulombe, a man who had assaulted her in August and twice violated a protective order in September.
In response to the decision by congressional leaders to end the House Page Program: Wow! Seems that members of the U.S. House have figured that jumping into the 21st century will save the taxpayers $5 million annually. The program was made obsolete by the Internet and e-mail. The Senate program will continue, unfortunately. How 'bout all politicians follow suit? Although my husband and I still use a rotary phone (gasp!), we are not blind to technology and the value it holds in saving time and money. Corporations have saved millions of dollars using teleconferencing and telecommuting!
The abolition of slavery in the United States is chiefly associated with the Emancipation Proclamation, issued in its final form Jan. 1, 1863, and with the 13th Amendment, ratified on Dec. 6, 1865. There were a few local Union governments, however, that decided not to wait that long, and perhaps their accomplishments should be remembered. The proclamation was a wartime measure by President Lincoln and did not cover areas then under Union occupation; the loyal slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware; or the District. These exemptions were a matter for sneering comment in some quarters then, and occasionally are even now.
SINCE THE LAST THIRD OF THE 19TH CENTURY, latin american countries have only rarely taken up arms against each other-an astounding record of peace experienced by few other regions of the world. despite all their tanks and epaulets, the continent's militaries are generally reluctant or unable to fight each other, or are prohibited by treaty from doing so. in a rationally functioning world, one would expect nation-states in such circumstances to simply legislate their militaries out of existence-thereby saving themselves resources that could be used for socially beneficial purposes, as well as avoiding the potential for armed internal challenges to democracies.
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