A note on looting. Boortz is calling for looters in New Orleans to be shot. He uses such a broad brush that I have to draw a line. There are people who did not (and in some cases, could not) evacuate. They are going to supermarkets and convenience stores for water and food. Sorry, but that is NOT looting. That is the line between survival and death. Stealing other items (like luxury items) is looting. Otherwise you're going to turn the rest of the people into Jean Valjean.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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