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According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimate, each year at least 183 people — mostly children and the elderly — die when a motor vehicle backs-over them. As a concerned citizen and consumer, what do you do about it: (A) Look twice before putting the car in reverse? (Nah, too burdensome); (B) [...]

The West Nile Virus is a threat, but a teeny, tiny, eensy, weensy little one. So why waste money trying to fight it?

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is cracking down on seat belt usage, but are they overusing their scare tactics?

The actual harm caused in the Virginia Tech shooting is bad enough, but if we are not aware of our hurdles to judgment we make ourselves more vulnerable to tragic events than we already are.

JetBlue passengers may have gotten the shaft temporarily, but American taxpayers get it regularly — and continue to pay for it.

Philadelphia misses a heaping dose of irony when the city orders retail stores to remove all Phillie blunts and other “drug paraphernalia” from their shelves.

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Norfolk Attempts to Silence Eminent Domain Protest 21 May 2012, 7:00 pm

  Government officials in Norfolk, Va., are not only taking a local business, they are telling the owners to be quiet about it. Central Radio Company has been in Norfolk for nearly 80 years. Founded in 1934, Central Radio serviced radio equipment for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Today, it employs more than 100 people [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Robert Frommer and Erica Smith

DC Dog Owners on a Tight Leash 17 May 2012, 9:05 pm

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform… -Alexis de Tocqueville, from “Democracy in America.” Getting a [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Amanda Carey