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  • Wading into another debacle (nanny state to the rescue)

    08/05/2006 5:11:22 PM PDT · by Graybeard58 · 86 replies · 1,188+ views
    Waterbury Republican-American ^ | 08/05/06 | Editorial
    Coming to every school in Connecticut: a state-mandated swimming pool? The idea is not that far-fetched if you follow the thinking of people alarmed by the recent spate of drownings in Connecticut. Here's the road map: Several young people, mostly minorities who were non-swimmers, drowned this summer. In Connecticut, this constitutes a moral crisis requiring -- what else? -- a government solution. An analysis of selectively culled and tortured data from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control reveals America has a "swimming gap," with racist origins, of course. Minority children 10 to 14 are more than four times...