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Month: January 2015
Republicans in state governments plan juggernaut of conservative legislation – The Washington Post
The unprecedented breadth of the Republican majority — the party now controls 31 governorships and 68 of 98 partisan legislative chambers — all but guarantees a new tide of conservative laws. Republicans plan to launch a fresh assault on the Common Core education standards, press abortion regulations, cut personal and corporate income taxes and take up dozens of measures challenging the power of labor unions and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Challenge to the Beltway element in American life.
Look too for increased over-all prosperity in these states and their population growth at expense of other states.
Happy New Year
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
— Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father
“Alcohol didn’t cause the high crime rates of the ‘20s and ‘30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today’s alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does…. Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.”
— Judge James Paine
U.S. District Court
Source: address to the Florida Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
— Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Blithe Spirit 