Daily Topics - Monday May 6th, 2013
By shawnt56
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Hour One: NRA convention...it's all about the kids - Alan Korwin, Gun Laws
Hour Two: Are you cynical?
Hour Three: Who is murdering small business?
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Regarding Texas or "the South" seceding from the Union - In the 1960s when Alaska was admitted to the Union as a state, the geographically large but low population Texas counties of Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Presidio were genuinely ticked off - especially people in Brewster County and especially people in the small city of Alpine where I grew up and live now. Before Alaska came online, we in Alpine could claim to be "the biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state in the United States." So, the leadership of these communities voted at their next meetings to secede from Texas and form their own state. Of course, it only lasted a week or so before the vote was rescinded. My dad, W. E. Lockhart, Jr., MD, was Mayor of Alpine at the time and he explained that the reversal was because they couldn't find enough corrupt politicians to form a government to run their newly hatched state, so they were going to have to rely on Austin (the Capital of Texas) to provide that service. A lesson for today?
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Listening to Mr. Korwin, I find myself leaning towards the jobs problem being greatly impacted be a shallow gene pool.