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Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475

I'm vehemently opposed to most any national legislation. One of the things that make the US great, is the (slipping) states rights element of our country. If you don't like how things are in your state...move to one that is more like you!! We're a diverse nation, and different areas have different feelings, needs and beliefs.

Exactly -- if everybody in your state believes that Catholics shouldn't be allowed to have so many kids, then put it on the ballot! Why should the federal government interfere with the rights of individual states?

And how is it the business of the feds if residents of the Northwest don't want to share water fountains with Canadian immigrants? Let them go to California if they don't like it! (Of course, it sucks if you're both gay _and_ Canadian...)

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Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates 410

roncosmos writes "Science News has up a feature on the first use of sound recording in a presidential campaign. In 1908, for the first time, presidential candidates recorded their voices on wax cylinders. Their voices could be brought into the home for 35 cents, equivalent to about $8 now. In that pre-radio era, this was the only way, short of hearing a speech at a whistle stop, that you could hear the candidates. The story includes audio recordings from the 1908 candidates, William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. Bryan's speech, on bank failures, seems sadly prescient now. Taft's, on the progress of the Negro, sounds condescending to modern ears but was progressive at the time. There are great images from the campaign; lots of fun."

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