One is from Market Watch about the IRS and some states that are watching Social Media sites - "Taxman Turns to Social-Network Sites" http://bit.ly/dDmQX You better be careful what you Twitter or post to Facebook, and not just because it might embarrass you someday!
The other is about the details of the Credit Card Legislation that was passed in May. A recent blog post of mine gave you a link to read about the new rules credit card companies will have to abide by, but this link listed a provision in the bill that I hadn't noticed anywhere else:
-- Includes unrelated provision that would allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges. http://bit.ly/EQZIz
Sure enough, H.R. 627: Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 was signed into law by the President with this provision in it:
(8) The Federal laws should make it clear that the second amendment rights of an individual at a unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System should not be infringed.
(b) Protecting the Right of Individuals To Bear arms in Units of the National Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge System- The Secretary of the Interior shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm including an assembled or functional firearm in any unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System if--
(1) the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm; and
(2) the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the State in which the unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System is located.
Now, I don't want to debate here whether one should be allowed to carry a loaded gun in a National Park, but I sure as heck want to debate whether these totally unrelated provisions should be allowed to be attached to bills in the first place.
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