Toll Monitoring

Any yammering propeller-headed nitwit can tell the world to make love, not war, and no one can impeach his sincerity in making that plaintive demand. By contrast, anyone who supports the war had better be a card-carrying military veteran, or else be condemned as a "chickenhawk" -- no matter how wise, eloquent, or inspiring their pro-war position might be. The problem isn't chickenhawks -- people who support the war but never served in the military, and probably never will. The problem is stateside armchair philosophers who oppose military action and military policy, even though they never served in the military. The problem is anti-war punditry from intellectuals who think that an IED is a contraceptive and couldn't tell the difference between bounding overwatch and watching Baywatch.
http://www.techcentralstation....A.html

US aircraft firm Boeing will unveil its new long-distance 777 plane on Tuesday as it tries to regain its position as the industry's leading manufacturer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk...95.stm

Americans seem to believe that they and their politics have got more conservative; but perhaps they haven't
http://www.economist.com/...303

"What if they have a computer glitch and they debit too much?" he asked. "If I stop using the toll road, how easy would it be to cancel the auto-debits? And since a computer records each time I pass through the toll booth, I also don't like the idea of someone knowing each and every time I drive on a particular road. That's kind of intrusive, I think. That means the toll authority would have a pretty good idea of which part of the city I'm in at just about all times. Scary!"
http://abcnews.go.com/...=1

Kudos from the Freepers
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/
ick... "kudos"

A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they step into the classroom
http://story.news.yahoo.com..._insurance

DC Truency
The Baltimore city school system posted the highest truancy rate in Maryland last year at 10.7 percent, or 9,266 of its 86,248 students truant.
http://washingtontimes.com/...3r.htm

Upgrading their vows to that of a covenant marriage, a legally binding contract available only in Arkansas, Arizona and Louisiana, the Huckabees hope to jump-start a conservative movement that has shown little sign of moving in recent years. A covenant marriage commits a couple to counseling before any separation and limits divorce to a handful of grounds, like adultery or abuse.
http://nytimes.com/2005...epage