Column on Friday editorial page by Bill Clinton sez... "Ten years ago this week I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Recociliation Act also known as welfare reform." Another bill passed during his administration was the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 which has been given credit for balancing the budget.Both bills were sponsored by John Kasich Republican of Ohio.

The only thing omitted by Mr. Clinton is that the November 1994 election gave the Republican Party a strong majority in both houses of congress. Without the Republican majority neither of these bills would have passed. Who do we credit?

"Your attitude is perverted by fact." Compliment? Please reply, YES or NO.

The 10th ammendment specifically states that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or the people." The federal government gets around this by offering grants with strings attached. Some of many examples: No Child Lefr Behind Act, highway funds contingent on seat-belt laws and .08 legal alcohol limit and authorize the president to take control of state national guard units. This is written from a libertarian point of view.

We would do well to have the U.K. do our intelligence screening. They saved ten airplanes by using wire-tap and monitoring financial transactions. The ACLU doesn't allow us.

"Politics has it's limits in driving change in society"
Cultural shifts take decades and cannot be accomplished by politicians. There are no solutions, just tradeoffs. Example of cultural differences can be seen with diplomatic immunity.Betweenn 1997 and 2002, the U.N. mission of Kuwait picked up 246 parking violations per diplomat. Diplomats from Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Mozabique,Pakistan, Ethiopia and Syria also committed huge numbers of violations. Meanwhile not a single parking violation by a Swedish diplomat was recorded. Nor were there any by diplomats from Denmark, Japan, Israel, Norway or Canada.
The reason there are such wide variations in ticket rates is that human beings are not merely products of economics, but are also shaped by cultural and moral norms.