21.   But this year the Democratic-dominated state Assembly has passed a computerization law.

22.   But the state has since passed a law banning HMOs from signing exclusive contracts, thereby making the stumbling block moot.

23.   During Reconstruction, however, state after state passed laws barring interracial unions.

24.   Eighteen states have passed laws to require the gun-show background checks.

25.   Eleven states have passed laws to protect homosexuals from discrimination in the workplace.

26.   Eight other states have passed similar measures.

27.   Eleven other states have passed laws allowing parents to receive that help without giving up their children.

28.   Fewer than half the states have passed such expanded measures, and eight, including Wyoming, have no hate-crime laws at all.

29.   Fifteen states pass teachers who read in the lowest quarter of the national average, and nine states pass teachers in the bottom fifth of all readers.

30.   Five states have passed laws prohibiting cloning of humans, and one state prohibits state funding to such endeavors.