AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer. At issue is radiation emitted by all cell phones. There's little consensus among scientists that the phones pose a cancer risk, but some scientists suggest erring on the side of caution.
Cell phones carry warnings in some countries, although no U.S. states require them. The Federal Communications Commission contends all cell phones sold in the United States are safe, as does the industry.
This violates my two top mottoes: "there are no sulutions, only trade-offs" ans "with every right and privelege there are corresponding duties and responsibilities."
This bill is sponsored by a leading Democrat of the Maine state legislature and she reponds to "if you don't like something. just pass a law" typical of all Democrats.
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Marathon negotiating session on Friday clinched an agreement with Democrat Ben Nelson ensuring federal funds would not be used to pay for abortions and providing extra Medicaid matching funds and grants for his home state of Nebraska. The matching fund is 50% for wealthy states and more for poorer states. The balance over what in not paid by the Feds is paid by the taxpayers of each state and the rest of the states will have to make up for what is not paid by Nebraska. Bribery is what it took to buy Nelson's yes vote.
Nelson, a strong abortion rights opponent, had been the elusive 60th vote for the sweeping revamp, Obama's top legislative priority and the subject of intense political brawling for months.
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President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will be known for his War on Prosperity.
I'm speaking, of course, about Obama's effort to engineer a massive redistribution of wealth in America, using all the coercive powers of government now under Democrat control.
Make no mistake about it: Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it, and disincentivize it.
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Curing the recession was not Obama's end; it was his means to the end. The end was bigger government."
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