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POPSWTF???? Personally, I think the builders/owners can call it anything they like....but as a normal American, it will always be the 'Freedom Tower' to me. This Tower isn't about "one world"... it's a reaffirmation of our Freedom. What amazes me is that they would think the old name would be more palatable than Freedom Tower. It's like naming a child the same as one who died previously....ghoulish.
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POPSLegislation to Overhaul Rockefeller Drug Laws Moves Ahead Swiftly “Returning discretion to judges is really the heart of where we want to go,” said Jeffrion L. Aubry, an assemblyman who represents Queens and has led efforts to overturn the statutes, known as the Rockefeller drug laws because Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller made them a centerpiece of his agenda...“When we take away those mandatory minimums and restore judicial discretion, that’s when you can say Rockefeller is no longer there,...” Mr. Aubry said...But now Democratic leaders see an opportunity to take aim at the judicial underpinnings of the laws by untying the hands of judges, who are often bound to mandatory minimum sentences even for less serious drug crimes.
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POPSStrange suicide from tylenol Hmmmm...not a word about how the two senators who could have impeded the enactment of the so-called "Patriot Act", namely Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, were the only two politicians who received anthrax letters and had to vacate their offices, allowing this abomination to sail through. NY governor George Pataki got the letter also. He have talk about tick layer of cement dust in downtown Manhattan.
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POPSSex Offenders Freed in NY I don't mind if people are let out of jail after their sentence to society is completed. But when it comes to sex offenders, wouldn't it be better to have them bused to another facility and have them evaluated instead of just "set free on society?" And no, I do not believe hardened sex offenders can be rehabilitated. But the last line is telling ...
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POPSThe Taxpayers' Chauffeurs I think this editorial in the N.Y.Times is right on the mark.Why do we as taxpayers have to pay for elected officials to be chauffeured all around.?Certainly there are circumstances when that is called for:but on a daily basis why can't they get themselves to work like we do?
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POPSTurning Up Heat on Global Warming It will be interesting to see how this all plays out... It indeed could lead business to California who will focus on Clean technologies, hoping to jump on the bandwagon (and leading to new investments & jobs)... or.. it could cause a lot of factory jobs to go the way of the dinosaur. The big issue I see is that many of those factory jobs that will likely be lost if the business can't find an economical way to reduce emissions do not even indirectly transfer into the high tech jobs that the new cleaner companies mentioned on the first option I talked about. What happens to those workers? Will Arnie also sponsor state subsidized upgrading of skills?
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