Why the Government Doesnt Belong in People’s Sex Lives, Even Teenagers’
In eight towns in Colorado, the federal government is running an Abstinence Education Program to promote chastity amongst teenagers. These programs take tax dollarsa little over a half a million bucks a year for five years here in Coloradoand use them to buy written promises from teenagers that they will remain virgins until marriage. In return for signing the pledge and agreeing to take the message to other young people, these teens are rewarded with swing dance and Tao Kwon Do lessons, laser tag sessions and overnight camp outings. You even get a membership card.
When Heroes are Outlawed: How Joel Myrick Saved Lives by Breaking the Law
Joel Myrick is a hero. In 1997 this Mississippi high school principal prevented a psychotic teenager from killing students at Pearl Junior High, potentially saving numerous lives and immeasurable grief.
All Violent Crimes are Hate Crimes
The Denver press reported on Saturday September 25 that two Wyoming prison escapees were suspected in the robbery/murder of a gay man, Dan OBrien. In the middle of the Posts report on the incident, the following comment was included: [Police spokesman Virginia] Lopez said police believe the suspects may have befriended men they thought to be gay because they saw them as easier targets for robbery. She also said it did not appear the suspects were motivated by hate.
Imbalance of Power
The lesson of the latest evidence in the Waco case is that powerful centralized governments endanger both life and liberty. The founding fathers of the United States knew this. Not content to rely on limiting the U.S. governments lawful activities, they also created multiple centers of power within it.
Postal Service Rules Threaten Privacy
The U.S. Postal Service bureaucracy has recently launched a major assault on some of its most important competitors: the commercial mail receiving agencies (CMRAs) such as Mail Boxes Etc. The Post Office is imposing new regulations which wipe out privacy for private mail box users. But a chorus of Colorado voices including members of congress and domestic violence prevention advocates has joined together in opposition to the anti-privacy regulations.
Denver Confiscation Law May Meet its Match
The ends justifies the means. Right? Police found a plastic bag of cocaine inside an open bag of charcoal on Denver rental property owned by Douglas Bruce; the bag was adjacent to an apartment inhabited by a the apartment’s handyman’s family. So is it justifiable for the Denver City Attorney to seize Douglas Bruce’s property?
Cutting Public Safety Not a Good Move
When Governor Romer recently proposed his 10 billion-dollar state budget, he suggested that criminal sentences were too long, and that Colorado should think about shortening them to free up money for other state needs. Colorado spends too much on incarceration, he said, and we cannot sustain our present course into the future.
Department of Justice Threatens Colorados High-Tech Future
Boulder and Colorado Springs dont see themselves as having much in common. Yet both are enjoying an economic boom fueled by high-tech entrepreneurs. So is much of the rest of Colorado, and the United States. Not by coincidence, the most productive sector of our economy is the sector least controlled by Washington, D.C. But the glory days of the high-tech boom may be coming to an end, thanks to recent actions by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ).
Bible Supports Death Penalty
On October 13, 1997 at 8:33 p.m., the State of Colorado executed Gary Davis, who had been convicted in 1986 for the brutal rape, torture and murder of Virginia “Ginny” May of Byers. Davis was the first convicted murderer to be executed in Colorado in thirty years, a hiatus that had resulted largely from court rulings on the constitutionality of capital punishment.
DEATH BY BOUNTY HUNTER
Americans were rightfully shocked recently when a gang of Phoenix bounty hunters broke into the wrong house, assaulted the inhabitants, and–when one of the victims fought back–murdered the man and his wife. The bounty hunters were allegedly attempting to capture a scofflaw, who had jumped bail. The bounty hunters were thus, in a sense, trying to make money by enforcing the law.
The Ruby Ridge Prosecutions
Which is better: letting criminals go free, or prosecuting both a crime victim and a criminal? Folks who just want to let the criminals go should applaud the federal Department of Justices decision not to prosecute any of the federal officials involved in the fatal shootings of Vicki and Sammy Weaver, in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Folks who like seeing the innocent and the guilty prosecuted simultaneously, though, should enjoy the decision of the Boundary County, Idaho, prosecutor to bring charges against both Lon Horiuchi (who killed Vicki Weaver) and against Kevin Harris (who has already been tried and acquitted for defending himself against an attack by federal agents).
That Is A Fair Trial Anyway?
Are Coloradoans up to the task of giving Timothy McVeigh a fair trial? Is a fair trial even possible, the media breathlessly asks, now that the whole world has heard reports that McVeigh confessed to his lawyers?
