And certainly those who refuse to work or support their kids deserve it more than you do.

Republicans howled Wednesday when the LegislatureÂ’s Joint Finance Committee voted to stop denying food stamps to deadbeat parents and to the unemployed who refuse to get job training.

Gov. Jim Doyle proposed both measures in his new state budget and the finance panel refused to drop them on 8-8 party-line votes.

Don’t get a job. Don’t pay child support. Don’t worry – the taxpayer will take care of you.

Any wonder that we need to keep the Democrats from taking control nationally? Welfare reform will be DOA if they win the presidency next year.

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Maybe, maybe not. And maybe we have some sort of reasonable position being taken by Baltimore's mayor.

With violent crime rising sharply here, Mayor Sheila Dixon announced plans Wednesday to form a task force on illegal guns and install a system to track where and when guns had been used in crimes.

“Attacking gun crime,” Ms. Dixon said, “means cracking down on gun sales and arresting, prosecuting and putting in prison criminals who carry and use guns.”

Now presuming that Mayor Dixon means cracking down on ILLEGAL gun sales, I'm with her completely. To the degree she wishes to prevent or discourage the sale, purchase, or possession of legal weapons, as is the right of Americans under the Second Amendment, I've got a problem. But it at least sounds like she has her head in the right place on this one. Go after the criminals, not the weapons.

After all, cars are used in many crimes in this country -- far more than guns, as a matter of fact. We don't seek to crack down on car purchases or ban automobiles -- we go after the criminals for their criminal activity.. When politicians and law enforcement recognize the parallel, we start getting reasonable, constitutional public policy.

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Am I the only one who finds this proposal a bit disturbing?

Three members of the D.C. City Council are considering placing tollbooths at the city's entrances.

Marion Barry introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a commission to study the measure. He said commuters and visitors to the District have been getting a free ride on D.C. roads and tolls would help cover the costs of upkeep and repairs.

Barry's proposal doesn't set a rate for entering the city. He said the commission could make a recommendation after they study the issue.

The former mayor and Ward Eight councilman said tolls are collected from motorists entering New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

According to statistics, about 400,000 people drive into the nation's capital each day from suburban jurisdictions. Critics have already labeled Barry's idea a commuter tax.

Councilmen Kwame Brown and Harry Thomas are co-sponsors of the proposal. If approved by the D.C. City Council, the legislation would still face congressional review.

Let me spell out the problem with this – one that goes to the heart of the special nature of Washington as our nation’s capital city. What this tax (and have no illusions about it, that is what the toll clearly is) does is set a fee for being able to access your government in person.

Want to peaceably assemble at the Capitol in order to seek a redress of grievances? Ante up first, or you cannot do it.

Need to make personal contact with senior government officials? Can’t happen unless you pay the tax.

Desire to access records at the National Archives, make use of the Library of Congress, view exhibits at the Smithsonian or visit our nation’s signature memorials and monuments? You would be unable to do so without being subject to a city fee – effectively holding our national treasures hostage.

Once again, we see why the Founders wisely chose to establish a federal district that was subject to Congress, not as an independent entity with the right to make policy for itself. Rather than unconstitutionally giving Washington a voting representative in the House, Congress needs to reassert its full and constitutionally mandated sovereignty over the District wherein the seat of government has been located. After all, this is the sort of situation that the authors of the Constitution feared when they wrote Article I, Section8, Clause 17.

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Am I the only one who finds this proposal a bit disturbing?

Three members of the D.C. City Council are considering placing tollbooths at the city's entrances.

Marion Barry introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a commission to study the measure. He said commuters and visitors to the District have been getting a free ride on D.C. roads and tolls would help cover the costs of upkeep and repairs.

Barry's proposal doesn't set a rate for entering the city. He said the commission could make a recommendation after they study the issue.

The former mayor and Ward Eight councilman said tolls are collected from motorists entering New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

According to statistics, about 400,000 people drive into the nation's capital each day from suburban jurisdictions. Critics have already labeled Barry's idea a commuter tax.

Councilmen Kwame Brown and Harry Thomas are co-sponsors of the proposal. If approved by the D.C. City Council, the legislation would still face congressional review.

Let me spell out the problem with this – one that goes to the heart of the special nature of Washington as our nation’s capital city. What this tax (and have no illusions about it, that is what the toll clearly is) does is set a fee for being able to access your government in person.

Want to peaceably assemble at the Capitol in order to seek a redress of grievances? Ante up first, or you cannot do it.

Need to make personal contact with senior government officials? CanÂ’t happen unless you pay the tax.

Desire to access records at the National Archives, make use of the Library of Congress, view exhibits at the Smithsonian or visit our nation’s signature memorials and monuments? You would be unable to do so without being subject to a city fee – effectively holding our national treasures hostage.

Once again, we see why the Founders wisely chose to establish a federal district that was subject to Congress, not as an independent entity with the right to make policy for itself. Rather than unconstitutionally giving Washington a voting representative in the House, Congress needs to reassert its full and constitutionally mandated sovereignty over the District wherein the seat of government has been located. After all, this is the sort of situation that the authors of the Constitution feared when they wrote Article I, Section8, Clause 17.

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Under a new Iranian law.

The culture committee of the Iranian parliament approved on Monday a bill sentencing to death producers of 'pornography', videos and films deemed vulgar by the country's censorship. The draft law will now go to parliament where it is expected to be approved by an ample majority. Amateur porn films have a properous market in Iran and can fetch up to 30 euros each.

The market, tolerated for a long time, became a nationwide issue earlier this year after a porn film of popular television actress, Zohre Mir Ebrahimi, having sex with her partner, was released.

So when the time comes to clean out this terrorist rathole, presumably liberals will support sending in a battalion of ACLU lawyers in the first wave.

And I can hear the protesters now: “No blood for porn! No blood for porn!”

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MSNBC is broadcasting some leftist hack named Stephanie Miller. Absolutely dreadful.

Can we bring back Imus? He was at least funny at moments.

And a quick note to today's guest, Cindy Sheehan -- if neo-cons were so murderous, you would be dead, you raving idiot. If the Bush administration were everything you claim, you would be in a torture chamber, not being broadcast nationwide attacking the government. Yes, I'm sorry for your loss -- but I'm even sorrier that it has driven you completely insane.

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