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There are many laws related to the possession and use of guns and each comes under attack when an event is politicized by special interest groups determined to curtail the liberty of gun owners. Polarizing large groups of Americans against gun ownership and use is an easy task when an unpopular death occurs and voters are presented with a celebrity blaming guns for the death. Phrases like "caused by guns" and "gun-related" are used liberally in public speech which is then broadcast in the news without the burden of fact-checking or fear of libel.

Al Gore told us that the arctic ice sheet would be gone by 2013, but the Earth now has more sea ice than ever previously recorded. America experiences record low temperatures and record snow falls every year.

The evidence is literally everywhere, but a diminishing percentage of Americans still feel the need to believe in Global Warming--almost religiously. Global Warming Denial has become the heresy of the 21^st century, but it's not based in religion or even in science.

Weather is not the same as climate

The most common argument to dismiss these inconvenient truths is that individual events do not represent the overall global climate. While Hurricane Katrina was touted by the Global Warming crowd as irrefutable proof that global warming is real, record low temperatures and massive blizzards are played down as irrelevant--some misdirected souls even try to use these increasingly brutal Winters as evidence of Global Warming!

Now that the voters of Washington have defeated the GMO-Labeling Initiative 522 the rest of America can scratch its collective head and wonder why some people proposed the GMOs be labeled and why others did not want them labeled. Additionally, we can take a moment to ponder an even better idea than labeling GMOs.

This article is neither an attack on nor a defense of GMO. There are no claims from nameless scientists who say that GMOs are bad for you or good for you. No farmers from either side are quoted here. Only the incentives on both sides of Initiative 522 are presented in this article as a way to try to understand why there are two conflicting opinions on the subject and how they are so evenly balanced.

The summer of 2013 will be remembered for the fast food employees who failed to strike for a doubling of the minimum wage. What made them think that America is a nation where legislation has replaced hard work as a way to earn more money?

There are many arguments as to why it is important to raise minimum wage at the federal level that are based on the assumption that hard work is no longer the path to wealth. Those arguments will be addressed along with the exaggerated sense of entitlement that has become the hallmark of today's minimum-wage earning generation.

Minorities in America faced hatred and intolerance every day in America just 70 years ago. Today that racism is nearly impossible to find and exists only in a small, voiceless minority.

How did America go from a nation where minorities were treated like chattel to a nation that embraces diversity? When did America become the nation where children are not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?

A new era without the need for racism

Many Americans believe that Trayvon Martin was acting in self-defense when he attacked George Zimmerman on February 26th, 2012. If so, we must ask ourselves, "Why did Trayvon wait four minutes to circle back to Zimmerman and then defend himself by sucker-punching a man who was waiting for the police?" That's right: Trayvon Martin ran away before Zimmerman got out of his car and then came back four minutes later to "defend himself".

Yesterday the racially-motivated case against George Zimmerman culminated in acquittal on all charges. Many were convinced that Zimmerman was guilty of murder because Zimmerman is white and his attacker was of a different race. The prosecution was unable to convince the jury that Zimmerman is a racist and that he shot Trayvon Martin to death because he was a black man.

In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting a lot of politicians are setting their sights on the guns of law-abiding citizens. Their logic is simple enough: if there are no guns, then there can be no more school shootings. Right?

The problem is that their logic is too simple and their view on the subject too myopic. Besides being unconstitutional, it's unreasonable to criminalize everything that can be used to hurt somebody.