By James Baxter, NMA President MADD’s current excuse for existing is to make DUI violations a felony, the most serious of criminal convictions. A felon, along with going to prison, loses the right to vote, the right to possess firearms, any professional licenses, scholarships, and many employment opportunities. Given that two or three drinks and […]
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FCC Conspires To Protect Ticket Camera Corporation
By James Baxter, NMA President The Federal Communications Commission, in the dying days of the Republican administration, has added yet another reason to clear the decks in Washington, D.C. and start all over with a new cast of characters. In a duplicitous, yet obvious, regulatory maneuver the FCC Enforcement Division has concocted a “Consent Decree” […]
Vengeance, Bad Data Make For Terrible DUI/DWI Policy
By James Baxter, NMA President This editorial by James Baxter is a response to a five part series on drunk driving in Wisconsin that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in October. The Journel-Sentinel series on “excessive drinking,” primarily related to drunk driving, was motivated by “studies” that identified Wisconsin as the epicenter of drunken behavior […]
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red light ticket cameras increase rear-end collisions, often dramatically. However, the supposed off-setting rationale […]
Daytime Running Lights: No Statistically Significant Effect On Safety
By James Baxter, NMA President You’re not likely to see any bold headlines, and CNN will not be interviewing Bush administration DOT officials, but the seven year long saga of trying to prove that Daytime Running Lights improve highway safety is coming to a close. The official results are couched in terms like “not statistically […]
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