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I voted for Rand Paul last week by absentee ballot. He will win the GOP nomination tomorrow, no doubt. Rand Paul enjoys enthusiastic support from Kentucky's Tea Party activists. Rand Paul wll be elected to the US Senate from Kentucky in November. (Turtle, did you do your patriotic chore?)

Kentucky to Texas (on full PIG ALERT).

We are watching the Balkanization of America. As the federal government turns a blind eye to illegal immigration, southwestern states such as California and Arizona are being repopulated by south-of-the-border immigrants seeking a better life. Will there be white-flight from these states like...

Well, many states give motorcyclists the legal leeway to ride without a helmet. The crux of the matter is choice and responsibility. Riding a motorcycle is a choice, not a necessity. Riding a motorcycle is risk-taking as a form of recreation. In other words, it is recreational risk-taking. I...

I have never understood why any person with a family would choose to ride a motorcycle on the highway. That little thrill is greatly outweighed by considerable risk of becoming paralyzed or dead on impact. The Flying Wallendas have a better safety record. If I were an underwriter for life...

Douglas Bareback, Jr.

Pigs are trouble. In my native homeland, the Hatfield-McCoy feud erupted over a dispute about ownership of a pig. My clan was and is related to both the Hatfields and the McCoys. We formed a strong alliance with the McCoys as we were often related by blood or marriage. The McCoys were also...

I understand the points you make, Turtle. Like yourself, I have just the driver's seat in my van. I didn't want to jeopardize the man's safety if he became ill 20 minutes later. And truthfully, I didn't know if I could legally transport him in a commercial vehicle. The cops took over, he...

Understood. If you want particulars, call the Ozona,TX Sheriff's Dept and ask questions about the accident. Ask to listen to the 911 call I placed. You have to listen to the very end as the very last question they asked was my name. Of course the incident is odd. No one expects to strike a...

Turtle, are you saying the young man was not in good hands with me? Are you implying he was in good hands only after the cops showed up? Of course, no one wrecks just to lure someone in. You can ridicule my fears of walking upon criminal types. May I call you next time I come upon a wreck...

No, it's not a setup. Obama was deadly serious about ramming the healthcare takeover through Congress and now he's quite serious about pushing Kagan's nomination through the Senate. Obama hates the values of traditional America. What better way to poke a finger in the eye of social...

??? Greg, if you should have the misfortune of wrecking at night in a remote area you will pray it is a harmless fellow who comes along next. Otherwise, you will not be amused at all.

Can there be any doubt that Barack Obama is an enormously stupid man? Does he even live on planet Earth? He must really be spoiling for a fight in the Senate to have picked an oddball like Kagan. It's time for Barack Almighty to get a big slapdown.

Can't afford to be wrong on the carrying of firearms in a truck. Such a mistake would be career-ending. Crossing state lines with a firearm gets tricky. Sometimes there are city-county-municipal ordinances to deal with. It's a hodgepodge subject to change at the whims of local jurisdictions...

I will have to look up the regs. I have always been under the impression drivers of commercial vehicles may not carry firearms while driving a commercial vehicle. Then there is the whole debate about whether a cargo van is actually a commercial vehicle. I will call OOIDA and get some guidance...

Too bad we are not allowed to do concealed carry. That might make things a little more even. The cops show up full of bravado. Of course, they're packing heat. It seems our government does not trust truckdrivers to do the right thing. I think anyone cleared to haul HazMat should be good...

It is not lost on me that had the small car not passed me seconds before the crash, I would have been in line to strike the animal. Concerns about insurance and liabilty never entered my mind until the young man asked for a ride. The real struggle for me was the 10 or 15 second interval...

In hindsight, I could have made sure the young man had some money. Or maybe have gotten him a motel room back in Ozona. I suspect he was in an agitated state before the accident. He was certainly agitated after. My wife reminds me that the young man may have indeed had an injury unseen...

I witnessed a wee bit of drama Thursday night/Friday morning. Around 12:05am EST I am tooling along I-10 across the West Texas desert. Taking a load from El Paso to the Toyota plant in San Antonio. Minding my own business, traveling about 60mph on a beautiful star-lit night. Very little...

Yesterday, I survived the Flying J buffet only to be accosted in the parking lot by a man who spoke broken English. Although I couldn't follow everything he was trying to say( and he couldn't exactly follow my Appalachian brogue and cadence) I surmised he needed gas money to get to Mesa,AZ. He...