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...what's the harm?" says Judith Lee Stone, president of the nonpartisan Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety in Washington. "It's hard to change people's thinking unless there's a crash involving someone they know. Then people get it immediately." This year six states--Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky--have considered new or additional nighttime restrictions, but only Kentucky's bill passed, propelled, in part, by the death of the 17-year-old granddaughter of state representative Tom Burch of Louisville, who was the sponsor...
Indeed, as we traveled that Saturday through downstate Illinois and then across the Mississippi into the mythic presidential-campaign state of Iowa, Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow--a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy. Bill Gluba, a longtime Democratic activist who sells real estate on both sides of the river in the Quad Cities area, reminisced about driving Bobby Kennedy around Davenport, Iowa, on May 14, 1968. "I was just a teenaged kid," he says. "But I'll never forget the way people reacted to Kennedy. Never seen anything like it since--until this...
...fervently believed he would make both a strong candidate and a good president. "It's definitely a blow," says Jim Jordan, a Democratic operative who had signed on to help Warner's run for the White House. For Jordan, and others like him in both Washington and places like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Warner's credentials as a popular former Democratic governor of a Republican state - and, prior to that, a hugely successful venture capitalist - made him the Democratic Party's best hope to capture independent and swing voters in a 2008 general election...
...spots attacking Mollohan for the federal funds he has steered to the non-profit groups Those ads - including one mailer that screams, "The Worst Tradition in Government" - are paid for by the Economic Freedom Foundation, a not-for-profit 527 political organization that has bought ads in West Virginia, Iowa and Georgia...
...Americans are against any interrogation methods that cause excruciating pain. That is far different, however, from duress or discomfort. I am not against our government using a variety of interrogation techniques, such as loud music and uncomfortable surroundings, especially when that could save U.S. lives. Julie J. Marlay Ottumwa, Iowa...