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Being The President = Being The President
Rachel Lucas slammed a wacko article that actually claims the country was BETTER off when we had a sex fiend in office. The writer of the article is partially jesting, of course, but gimme a break! I'd rather have a President with no sex life: it means he'd have more time to worry about the many needs of our great nation. Sheesh.
Good job, Rachel.
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1:34 AM
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Wednesday, June 18 
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Racial Profiling Is EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN! (Er, Kinda.)
The federal government, always inefficient and ambivalent about what it wants to do, banned racial profiling on Tuesday. You'd think if racial profiling was so evil there'd be a complete ban on it. Not so:
The U.S. Justice Department (news - web sites) on Tuesday issued guidelines that ban federal law enforcement officers from racial profiling in routine police work but allow the use of race and ethnicity to identify terrorist suspects.
If it's good enough to identify terrorist suspects, which is arguably THE most important type of police work, why shouldn't it be good for federal law enforcement in general? Why this inane double standard?
Here's the lowdown on racial profiling: it's not that bad. It's demonized as being prejudiced and wrong, but it really isn't. It's an important tool used to identify possible suspects. Will we someday get to the point where NO descriptive information can be used to I.D. a perp? White, black, red, yellow...it's part of I.D.!
A good example: illegal immigrants are generally speaking of Hispanic descent. When we're looking for illegals near El Paso, for instance, do we look for whites? Blacks? Asians? NO! We look for Hispanics. Without racial profiling, it makes police work harder and our country as a whole is unsafer.
No, I'm not at all for some (racist) white cop to stop every young black man he sees. I am, however, for police officers using good judgment when looking for crooks. That includes using race when looking for suspects. If a white guy committed a crime and I was stopped, it's a minor inconvenience I have to endure. The real solution to racial profiling is to stamp out crime. No crime, no suspects, no profiling. That should be our ultimate goal as a society.
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1:15 AM
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