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Paula Jones' Lawsuit Against Bill Clinton
... she looking for her fifteen minutes of fame," Jones says. The
case is going before the Supreme Court to decide whether to reverse the decision
of the two lower courts and delay the sexual harrassment lawsuit until President
Clinton leaves office. It could be months before the verdict from the Supreme
Court will be announced. I believe that the case should be held at a later date
when President Clinton is no longer in office. It takes away from his job which
is to run the United States of America. Fifteen years ago, the Supreme Court
blocked a damage suit against Richard Nixon with a five to four vote finding
that the president is immune from being suied for hi ...
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Steroids
... Whether taken by injection or the pill it increases
strength and endurance. Steroids also help in the healing process of
muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles heal quicker
adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes turn to steroids
more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week
cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one
hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their
water base composition. They can pass through the body within two days. All
these benefits of steroids help an athletes become more competitive and
increase their chance of being a winner. Of ...
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LSD
... the crystals until1943. (LSD can be
absorbed through the skin.) Hoffman then sent LSD around the world to be tested
and investigated to find medical uses. Lysergic acid deviates were found to
relieve migraines and control postpartum hemorrhage because it causes veins to
contract, but also caused gangrene of the limbs, and so further experimentation
with the drug was abandoned. In the late 50's, however, LSD was used by the
CIA as an interrogation drug for spies. However, it was proven to be unreliable
and was later replaced with other interrogation drugs.
LSD comes in the forms of crystals, liquids, tablets, gelatins, or
blotting squares. The squares have de ...
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Weed
... hold that the name comes
from the Portuguese word marigu-ano, which means "intoxicant". The use of
marijuana in the 1960's might lead one to surmise that marihuana use spread
explosively. The chronicle of its 3,000 year history, however, shows that this
"explosion" has been characteristic only of the contemporary scene. The plant
has been grown for fiber and as a source of medicine for several thousand years,
but until 500~ AD its use as a mind-altering drug was almost solely confined in
India. The drug and its uses reached the Middle and Near East during the next
several centuries, and then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America
and the Caribbean, ...
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History And Uses Of Marijuana
... The term "marijuana" is a word with indistinct origins. Some
believe it is derived from the Mexican words for "Mary Jane"; others
hold that the name comes from the Portuguese word marigu-ano, which
means "intoxicant". The use of marijuana in the 1960's might lead one
to surmise that marihuana use spread explosively. The chronicle of its
3,000 year history, however, shows that this "explosion" has been
characteristic only of the contemporary scene. The plant has been
grown for fiber and as a source of medicine for several thousand
years, but until 500~ AD its ...
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Illegal Immigration
... to illegal immigration are also opposed to large amounts of legal
immigration as well. These thinly hidden agendas mean that often the debate on
illegal immigration cannot be separated from the debate on legal immigration.
According to Negative Population Growth (which is a suspect source),
Americans are firmly believe in tough laws against illegal immigrants and that
70% of Americans want no more than 300,000 legal immigrants to enter the U.S.
per year. In fact, N.P.G. says that 20% of Americans want immigration
completely stopped. Taking these numbers as the truth, it is clear that America
thinks that we have too many immigrants.
Such ...
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Crime
... the seriousness of the offense, according to the
motives of the offenders. Such crimes may include economic crimes, political
crimes, crimes of passion, organized crime, and white collar crime. Crimes are
often divided between acts that most people would consider evil and acts that
lawmakers decide should be regulated in the interest of the community. The
first group includes such major crimes as arson, assault, breach of the peace,
burglary, kidnapping, larceny, murder, rape, and robbery. The second group
includes crimes of a “rapidly growing urban society.” These crimes include
violations of income tax laws, liquor control regulations, pure food and drug
laws ...
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Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
... brought against him for presenting the same exhibition.
LAW: Defining censorship
When it rules on an ''indecent art'' case, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether not subsidizing an activity is censorship.
The National Endowment for the Arts has been giving tax money to artists since the Johnson presidency. Some of its decisions have been controversial. For example, it subsidized an exhibit of menstrual blood, clothing made of condoms, and a depiction of Jesus Christ as a drug addict and sex object.
In 1990, after the NEA helped fund Robert Mapplethorpe's ''homoerotic'' photos and Andrew Serrano's crucifix in a jar of urine, Congress took action.
It pass ...
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Gun Control
... the NRA line that hidden handguns make them safer saw their violent crime rates drop by only 11.4%. Nationally, violent crime declined by 19.4% in that five year period. Violent crime actually rose in 12 of 29 states (41%) which liberalized their CCW laws over the five years beginning in 1992, compared to a similar rise in violent crime in only 4 of 22 states (18%) which did not change their CCW laws.
From the above statistics it is obvious that access to firearms did not provide extra protection for the citizen. In fact, the number of crime victims who successfully use firearms to defend themselves is quite small. Out of 34,040 American firearms deaths in 1996 ...
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The Unabomber: Is He Serious?
... his intentions when he wrote it.
I feel there is one thing the author deserves credit for right from the
start; his uncanny ability to set a pessimistic mood. From the minute you
glance at the introduction, he, assuming the author is male, begins to paint a
picture of destruction and demise of the world in which we live. What could
cause such a catastrophe? According to the author, it would have to be industry
and technology of all things. He was convinced that due to the industrial-
technological system in which we live, ultimately humans are going to be
subjected to world wide suffering and inevitably a total shut down of humanity.
Now at this moment I felt ...
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