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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With the Utah Supreme Court Judges?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Utah Supreme Court voted 5-0 that having drugs in the home is NOT enough reason alone to remove children from the home. They ruled that drugs in the home must be ACCESSIBLE to the children in order to be reason enough to remove them.
Let&#8217;s think about this&#8230; How about if the parents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=30&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/whats-wrong-with-the-utah-supreme-court-judges/</link>
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		<title>Monitors For Stalking Victims?</title>
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You know how a judge might order someone to wear an ankle monitor that will notify police if they leave their home or somewhere?
Well, I got to thinking why don’t stalking victims take some kind of device with them that would notify them if their stalker got too close? Seems like with GPS and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=29&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/monitors-for-stalking-victims/</link>
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		<title>Mining Safety is Worth Another Look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Crandall Canyon mine in Utah caved in 2 1/2 weeks ago. Since then there has been a massive effort to find some signs of life and to get them out, dead or alive. During that rescue effort, a second cave-in occurred, killing 3 rescuers and sending 6 others to the hospital.
I listen and read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=27&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/mining-safety-is-worth-another-look/</link>
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		<title>Mary Winkler &#8211; Murderer or Victim?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Winkler is free after serving 67 days, most of that in a prison hospital. (She was sentenced to 210 days and given credit for some 140+ days in jail before posting bail.) Her crime? She shot her husband in the back while he was sleeping. Her defense? She was an abused wife.
Winkler admitting shooting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=26&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/mary-winkler/</link>
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		<title>Gang Violence: &#8220;You Got to Keep the Respect&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another story from the August 10, 2007 edition of my local paper, The Daily Herald, a Provo, Utah-based newspaper. This story actually happened in Ogden, Utah.
Two young women were shot and killed and 2 others were injured at a post-wedding party. The suspect is a 19 year old gang member.
He says disrespectful words often trigger gang violence. &#8220;That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=25&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/gang-violence-you-got-to-keep-the-respect/</link>
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		<title>29 Strikes and You&#8217;re Out (of Society) &#8211; Finally!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally,  a judge with a little common sense&#8230;
This story ran in the August 10, 2007 edition of the Provo, Utah-based newspaper, The Daily Herald.
Remember California&#8217;s infamous &#8220;3 Strikes and You&#8217;re Out&#8221; law from a few years ago? I believe it was ruled unconstitutional shortly after it was enacted. Creating a law so that it can be named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=24&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/29-strikes-and-youre-out-of-society-finally/</link>
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		<title>Mitt Romney and His 5 Sons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first heard this on a segment of the &#8220;Today&#8221; show this morning&#8230; Matt Lauer asked John McCain in an interview if McCain thought it mattered that none of Mitt Romney&#8217;s 5 sons have served in the military. Fortunately, McCain answered that he didn&#8217;t think it did.
Should it matter? Shouldn&#8217;t children choose their own careers?
Romney&#8217;s response was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=22&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/mitt-romney-and-his-5-sons/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Recalls &#8211; What Product Will Be Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s largest toy company, Mattel Inc., has recalled 967,ooo plastic preschool toys made in China because their paint may contain too much lead.
I saw a clip on our local news where a reporter went to a family&#8217;s home and interviewed a mother. As the reporter named the specific toys listed in the recall the mother pulled the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=14&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/chinese-recalls-what-product-will-be-next/</link>
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		<title>Interpreters Required in the Courtroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest in a string of cases, a Liberian man&#8217;s child abuse case was dropped after a 3 year search for an interpreter of the Vai language. An interpreter was finally located but the judge dismissed the charges anyway and the interpreter was used to inform the accused of the judge&#8217;s decision. He was accused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=21&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/interpreters-required-in-the-courtroom/</link>
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		<title>The Silver Lining in Global Warming?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story that made me wonder about an interesting, if unintended, consequence of global warming&#8230;
The arctic is one of the earth&#8217;s last energy frontiers. Some estimates put 10 billion tons of oil and gas in about 460,000 square miles of the Arctic shelf. As the Arctic&#8217;s ice melts and recedes, presumably due to global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=1412076&post=9&subd=offthetopofmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://offthetopofmyhead.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-silver-lining-in-global-warming/</link>
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