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When two-thirds of the murders in the U.S. are committed with guns, one would hope that politicians would be taking prudent steps to restrict access to firearms. Against all common sense, Attorney General John Ashcroft is working to make guns more easily available. Last Monday, the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position on the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” reinterpreting it as an individual right to own guns rather than a collective right to bear arms in a militia. Ashcroft’s policy reversal confirms many...
...couples when they allow those with even more easily transferable conditions to marry. A child whose parents each have a single gene for a recessive disease such as sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis has a 25 percent chance of actually contracting the disease, yet the government does not restrict their marital choices. Even more damning is the case of dominant genetic diseases like Huntington’s disease, where if even a single parent has the disease, the child has a 50 percent chance of contracting...
America’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels is alarming. Pollution from these fuels is a known cause of acid rain, a contributor to serious health problems and perhaps a cause of global warming. Moreover, America’s foreign oil demands severely restrict the range of U.S. foreign policy options in the Middle East. Nuclear technology is the right energy production method for the shift away from fossil fuels while renewable energy technology remains unfeasible. Of course, expanded nuclear production should not be a license to waste energy; conservation efforts should be used to maintain energy demand...
...This fungus is in the same family as mushrooms though it sounds like a cousin to the stuff that causes athlete's foot. But last month the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington group sometimes dubbed the Food Police, asked the FDA and the E.U. to restrict Marlow from describing Quorn as mushroom-like. ("Not all fungi are mushrooms," the group intones.) Days before its complaint, however, CSPI's testers gave Quorn a "Best Bites" award. They acknowledged--we're not making this up--that it tastes like chicken...
Contributions to political campaigns are clearly a mode of speech—money sponsors candidates who express and represent the views and ideas of their contributors. Just because some individuals disagree with what contributions are used to say, there is no legitimate reason to restrict the protection of speech guaranteed under the First Amendment. A provision of the new reform places restrictions on a group’s ability to broadcast commercials that mention candidates within 60 days of election. This rule diminishes the ability of political groups to express their views through advertisements. For example...