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MIRANDA "Turned Upside Down
By Attorney Mark
Stevens
Since the Supreme
Court’s decision in
Miranda v. Arizona in
1966, the Miranda
warnings have
become as American
as baseball.
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About Those Presidential
Promises
   By James C. Capretta
Over the past three years, President Barack
Obama made many promises to the
American people about his health care plan.
Among other things, he said it would reduce
the federal budget deficit in coming years,
promote better quality care and improve
access to physicians...more
Gun Control Laws
By Thomas Sowell
Now that the Supreme
Court of the United States
has decided that the
Second Amendment to
the Constitution means
that individual Americans
have a right to bear arms,
what can we expect?
Weird-looking cars are a
dime a dozen. Far less
common are weird-
looking cars that can also
fly AND have approval
from the Federal Aviation
Administration. Indeed, as
far as we know, there’s
only one of those babies:
The Terrafugia Transition.
The private aircraft/funky-looking car has been in the news before. But the recent
announcement that it’s going into production sparked mega-searches on the
Web. Almost immediately, online lookups for “terrafugia transition” and
“terrafugia transition pictures” both, well, took off.

A popular article from the UK’s Daily Telegraph explains that the FAA’s
special exemption allows the vehicle to function as both a “light aircraft” and a
car. Normally, for a plane to meet the “light aircraft” designation, it can weigh
no more than 1,200 pounds. The Terrafugia Transition weighs 1,320, due
primarily to the number of car-related safety features, like airbags and
crumple zones. The “light aircraft” designation is key, because licenses for
planes with that label require only 20 hours of flying time. Fewer hoops to
jump through means more potential sales.

So, how does the plane/car work? Check out the flying car’s official video at
www.Terrafugia.com. So far, 70 people have placed a deposit. The total retail
cost: $194,000. Expensive, but really, can you put a price on skipping
commercial flights?
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