CUBA TRAVEL BAN LIFT BILL INTRODUCED
There has been a lot of activity around the nation concerning the effort to end the ban on travel to Cuba. The latest is the "Rangel (D-NY)-Flake (R-AZ) Bill" (H.R. 654 "To allow travel between the United States and Cuba" (introduced 1/24/2007, Latest Major Action: 1/24/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.)
At present, the bill has 60 co-sponsors and the proponents of the act are trying to secure a minimum of 100 cosponsors. Needless to say, Alabama will probably not be in that vanguard. However, there seems to be some momentum for abolishing this ridiculous ban on our right to travel. So, why not start softening these guys up with calls, letters, faxes, etc telling them people here actually do support the lifting of the ban?

DILDO LAW UPHELD
In upholding Alabama's vibrator law on Valentine's Day (someone over there has a sense of irony) the 11th Circuit's decision in (click on the red headline and then follow the link to Williams v. King) reiterated what it thought about the law and the dildos that passed it:

By upholding the statute, we do not endorse the judgment of the Alabama legislature. As we stated in Williams II:

However misguided the legislature of Alabama may have been in enacting the statute challenged in this case, the statute is not constitutionally irrational under rational basis scrutiny because it is rationally related to the State’s legitimate power to protect its view of public morality. “The Constitution presumes that . . . improvident decisions will eventually be rectified by the democratic process and that judicial intervention is generally unwarranted no matter how unwisely we may think a political branch has acted.”
(Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)