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Compared with policing tourists, policing meat imports is relatively easy. For all the seeming sweep of the new restrictions, there is simply not that much to restrict. With beef from the U.K. already banned because of mad-cow disease, the hardest-hit imports will be pork and goat, mostly from the Netherlands and Denmark. Such cooked and cured meats as canned hams, prepared sausages and prosciutto are not affected because heating or processing kills the foot-and-mouth virus. Certain dairy products like yogurt, Brie and hard cheeses are also exempt, since they are already subject to strict manufacturing conditions...
Where concerns about restrictions on freedom of speech are most legitimate are in the content of laws which are necessary to support a closure of the soft money loophole. To be effective, the government cannot simply restrict the amount of soft money which can be donated; it also must ensure that organizations do not turn around and "execute" soft money spending on their own. The McCain-Feingold bill would solve this problem by banning the private purchase of radio or television commercials if those spots specifically endorse a candidate by name in the two months before a general election...
...University agreed to restrict the height of their buildings at the edge of the residential neighborhood, a plan reviewed by the Cambridge planning board last night. This downzoning alays neighbors' main fear, that Harvard could build a 120 ft tall building right across the street from their houses, which are restricted to a height...
Therefore, when these supposedly liberal organizations try to restrict the rights of artists such as Eminem, they gag on their own hypocrisy. Ironically, Eminem is a poster-boy of modern liberalism. Organizations such as NSVRC or GLAAD are in effect saying that the public is too stupid to form an intelligent (read: correct) view on the subject, so it needs to be protected. Meanwhile, Eminem upholds his freedom, even in his lyrics: "Cuz every time I want a rhyme/these people think it's a crime/to tell 'em what's on my mind--I guess I'm a criminal...
RESTRICTOR PLATE Under carburetor, mandated in several races to restrict speed...