By Matthew Hayward In a free society, there is no need for "distracted driving" laws. No law should exist that attempts to socially engineer society; we do not need laws that attempt to prevent crimes from happening, and we do not need pre-crime laws. We need to enforce rational laws and punish real crimes. In today's Tri-City Herald article  Put the phone down and pay attention, or get a ticket , we learn that the Washington State Legislature has again passed another emotionally driven bill that violates our basic human rights. First, they tell us we are not allowed to make phone calls while holding the phone to our ear, and then they tell us we cannot text; now, this most recent "distracted driving bill,"  Senate Bill 5289 , prohibits us from holding various electronic devices.  We don't need more complex laws; common-sense laws should suffice. We don't need a law that addresses playing musical instruments while driving or reading a ...

The USA never has, and never will use its military solely for humanitarian purposes.* There are ample examples of atrocities that we have turned a blind eye to. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters were brutally massacred  in the 80s and another uprising in 2007 in  Burma/ Myanmar.  The people of America can be motivated to support military use by pictures of dead and dying women and children, but the government is driven by complex geopolitical strategy , military strategical positioning, control of resources, etc. If the government had not been caught lying about nearly every major military event in our history, maybe more people would believe the propaganda about chemical weapons and evil dictators. Chemical weapons may have been used, women and children may have been murdered by an evil dictator, but that is not what anyone of this is about. The public is never told the whole truth ; not now, not Benghazi , not Libya , not 9/11/2001 , not the USS Liber...