tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33916212012-01-26T11:03:43.277-05:00Political and Public Policy. Political discussions and politics. A discussion and lots of very pointed editorial comments on doings 'round the world; but especially in the USA.Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.comBlogger3391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-36133083417817112072012-01-05T13:19:00.001-05:002012-01-05T13:19:51.304-05:00

Money quote: There are multiple ways to skin this cat, but I decided to put together a comparison table based solely on the content found on each candidate’s campaign website. I did not consider past statements or votes, the televised debates, or outside sources (unless linked to by a campaign’s website). The idea is that statements on each candidate’s website should offer the clearest indication

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I, personally, am somewhat curious about Bayshore Recycling's ownership of long-range drones! As tensions rise between Japanese whalers and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the recent lawsuit brought by the Japanese, Sea Shepherd has a new ally on their hands: drone aircrafts. The whale activists have been locked in a heated and exponentially worsening battle with the Japanese whalers,

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they make a good point: I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on

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Ye money quote from Megan McArdle“it’s all too common for well-meaning middle class people to think that if the poor just had the same stuff we do, they wouldn’t be poor any more (where ‘stuff’ includes anything from a college education to a marriage license to a home).Note, however, that a high-school education, waiting until age 25 to have children and a two-parent home ARE statistically

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Can't say this often enough:"sequestration increases spending by $1.65 trillion between 2012-2021"Sequestration in Perspective: Debt Without and With Sequestration | Mercatus

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Oookkkaaayyyy.Let's see... there hasn't been a Donk POTUS who would have been elected since LBJ. So...1. If Obama bails, is there any chance the Black vote will be as enthusiastic as they were in 2008?2. Can a D be elected w/o the black vote3. Are the comments about voting for Romney (note the assumption)just to show the Ds not to assume the Black vote actually reflecting a significant number?

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Marie Celeste, white courtesy phone.

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Actually, I didn't vote for McCain, but Reynolds makes a good point anyway.MQ: Oh, who am I kidding? Nobody told me that would happen if I voted for McCain . . . .

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And here I thought university education departments were making an effort to remove mouth-breathers from their student body!Teacher penalizes students for saying "bless you" | abc30.com

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Twitter / @krauthammer: Earthquake, hurricane, Oba ...">Earthquake, hurricane, Obamacare. When does it stop? Seven more and I vote we let the Israelites go.

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Did you know... that a war college journal in the People's Republic called for the ability to defeat the U.S. by 2029? This sparked off a big debate over signals: were the authors stating PRC policy, rattlin' the US' cage, lobbying their own government, trying to freak out Taiwan and Japan (they succeeded), or a combination of the above? What does this have to do with the above? Just this: the

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Hmmmm. Looks like there's a bureaucratic disagreement and no one wants to say so: "To ensure that all evidence is properly weighed and considered, the [investigation team] is taking additional time to finalize the report,” bureau spokeswoman Eileen Angelico said. US Investigators Delay Report On Deepwater Horizon Spill | gCaptain

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Twenty seamen on a cargo vessel have been abandoned at sea for over a month without food or water.Safety4Sea | 20 seamen stranded with little food for over a month

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Money quote: "The game starts you off with a look at the budget in the year 2021, should our government’s current policies stand as they are without any changes. Things look pretty bleak; some of the buildings representing the various sections of the budget are literally sky-high. The game predicts that, if no changes are made, our budget will go bust in 2031, at which point our debt will equal

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From Government computer news (GCN).There is something rather strange about this. Earlier this year, there was an assassination attempt on the King of Saudi Arabia. The suicide bomber carried the bomb internally, but it wasn't surgically implanted. I'll leave you to fill in the blanks. There is, in other words, not very good reason to assume that 'sensitivity from recent surgery' will

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Here's a pretty good summary from -- of course -- our Atlantic allies of what IMO inflicted on us in Manila.Safety4Sea | STCW 2010 Amendments : What you need to know

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So, back in 1983, a recently, not to say soundly, defeated candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates opined that the powers-that-be would change the rules for IRAs (originally, Chilluns, anyone who earned more than $2,000/year could contribute to an IRA), AND would eventually announce that "it's time the fortunate helped the less fortunate" and started to tax private pensions.Well, the IRA

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Man, I hope...Please tell me this isn't...They couldn't be dumb enough...US Naval Update: CVN 65 Enterprise Abandons Libya, Reinforces CVN 70 Vinson In Straits Of Hormuz | zero hedge

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Emphasis mine:Some courses that are supposed to teach critical thinking amount to nothing more than severe criticism by professors of ideas they dislike. Students don’t learn how to think. Instead of learning to exercise careful judgment, they learn to mimic their professors’ opinions.Second, critical thinking ought to mean thinking that reflects the Western rationalistic tradition. Unfortunately

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Belling the Cat. Aesop. 1909-14. Fables. The Harvard Classics

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Home

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The ONLY way to go. FYI the Euro trades at ~1.4:1.0 to the dollar.Money quote: "They may not look like cruise ships from the outside, but CMA CGM, the world's third largest container shipping group, is offering cruises on board the largest vessels in its fleet, its 13,800 TEU containerships. It says that last year 690 people chose to experience "cruising another way" by traveling on a

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Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.AP: Browner leaving as Obama energy adviser - USATODAY.com

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Safe to say that being Hispanic is the most important thing about this gal:I wasn't the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting. I wasn't looking however to read about what had happened. My auntie had already filled me in — "Someone tried to murder una representante. People have been killed," she'd reported. What I wanted to know was the killer's

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I todja so, I todja so. Hah hah hah, I todja so!From the Wall Street Journal: Moody’s said the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. still have debt metrics, including the debt affordability, compatible with their triple-A ratings at Moody’s. But all four countries must bring the future costs arising from pension and healthcare subsidies under control if they “are to maintain long-term stability in

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And, as the Gateway Pundit so eloquently puts it: Look at this pig.EXCEPT, there's TWO of 'em; therefore, look at these pigs.Harry Potter Muslim Actress Beaten By Brother; Flees Home After Family Threatens to Kill Her For Dating Hindu Boy | The Gateway Pundit

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It is cheating with the passive connivance of the cheatees. Actions like bailing out the states & cities, the sanctity of social insecurity, etc, poll as being very popular among the young (18-35). that said, there's no excuse, baby boomersWhat states and localities can do about this is limited. Pension promises to existing employees are probably legally inviolate. Retiree health benefits are

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Home Labs Rise With Smarter and Cheaper Devices - NYTimes.com

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Welcome to My Hypersensitivity Training Workshop, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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This isn't new. Once upon a time a government official got made the subject of a lot of PC & late-night humor for suggesting a variation of getting under cover.Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come

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Borrowing a quote from the Instapundit: As I reminded my conservative blogger friends who were applauding the latter – 'When the communists show up to protest the Nazis, you’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite.'Mao's Great Leap to Famine - NYTimes.com

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Marginal Tax Rates, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and LibertyA very good point from Arnold Kling.And a related point frrom Greg Mankiw:http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/11/poverty-trap.htmlPay really close attention to the left-hand side of the chart, boysengurls, not that the trend goes DOWN between $19K and 39K.

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Vote Coach Clayton Kendrick-Holmes!

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Wow. Just. Wow.Random Act of Culture - Hallelujah chorus in Macy's • videosift.com

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Fort Schuyler's first perfect season.Vote Coach Clayton Kendrick-Holmes!

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Hat tip: Chris JohnsonAnd this anger – again, contrary to the general understanding in Britain – is not new: it goes all the way back to the Bush presidency. It was widely known in Europe that the American Left hated George Bush (and even more, Dick Cheney) because of his military adventurism. What was less understood was that the Right disliked him almost as much for selling the pass over

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Money shot: Either act like adults charged with the responsible management of this country, instead of drunken teenagers with mom’s credit card, or we will un-elect you at the first opportunity.I am Simon Jester » Blog Archive » A Warning

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Money shot: Having made my point, I trust, I'll now slip out of my snark suit and share a little secret with you. The real story of bigotry and intolerance is the fact that it lives and thrives on the left. As a gay woman who spent most of her adult life pushing the cart for liberal causes with liberal friends in a liberal city, I found that sexism, racism and homophobia are staples in the

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Baby Fever, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: The secret of a longer life

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Cato Unbound, Self-Recommending Edition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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The database Dr Goffe's assembling has a home page hereWhen asked by how much has income per person in the United States changed since 1950 (after adjusting for inflation) the median student said an increase of 25%. Actual rate an increase of about 248%, thus the median student was off by a factor of 10.Read the rest Marginal Revolution: Economic Misconceptions">here

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A note to the 44th Prez: there's a reason why the elections of 1972 and 1980 were disasters for the Donks!Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 10.1% in September

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Analysis: Could GOP be playing into Dem hands? - Yahoo! News

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Help is only minutes away.Shocking testimony reveals police inaction in Conn. \horror home invasion - NYPOST.com

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@ MITAGS, which makes it agood enough reason to goThe Maritime Executive Magazine :: Ship Owners Cooperative Program Meets in September

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Christina Hoff Summers of AEI. Money quote:Pre-kindergarten boys with mental abilities three or four standard deviations above the mean have astonishing talents. But as Terry Neu, an expert on gifted boys, told me, sitting still for an extended period of time is not one of them.Are There More Girl Geniuses? — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

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Well, yah, Mr Reynolds, but ya gotta consider the source. Politico has a vested interest in the big D agenda; to the extent that such articles make libertarians and conservatives and independents relax, it fits the agenda. So the best part of advice is "Make the lame ducks fear you."Instapundit » Blog Archive » FEAR THE LAME DUCK! Or, better yet, encourage the lame ducks to fear you….

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You ignore Samuelson at your peril. The Gift of Shale Gas

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We actually want you to be honest.: 21 Things Hiring Managers Wish You Knew - US News & World Report

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2000 PRC war college pub comes up with a goal of being able to engage the US militarily by 20292001 RGMCF mentions this to MMR conference, notes that this goal requires a blue water ability and this goal will be recognizable if PRC's high-end blue water fleet starts growing.2010: CJCS finds out about this too.I'm being disingenuous. ADM Mullen has been paying close attention since he was a

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Note that doubling the payroll tax covers the shortfall forever IF the increases in the cost of the medical programs stops. I know! Everybody hold your breath until you turn blue, that'll do it!Unfunded Entitlements ‘r’ UsUnfunded Entitlements ‘r’ Us

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Arturus!Rex quondamRex futurus!Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table - Telegraph

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New cancer trend statistics being released today are heartening. Eurekalert headline announcing the new cancer stats reads: "Cancer Deaths Continue to Drop." Which is happily quite true, but actually misses the even more amazing fact that "Cancer Incidence Rates Continue to Drop."What Growing Cancer Epidemic? - Update - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

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Money quote:"If Mr. Obama follows Dean Edley’s advice, low-skilled workers’ wages will indeed change – specifically, the wages for many of these workers will fall from their current levels (say, $7.25 per hour) to $0 per hour. Firms seeking government contracts will replace low-skilled workers with machines; hire fewer such workers and work them harder; or use a smaller number of higher-skilled

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Money shot: "Coast Guard will no longer post actual mariner examination questions on the NMC website. Effective July 12, 2010, the full set of deck and engineering questions and answers will be removed from the NMC Website"Not for the record, the questions were released under a court order. This will be interesting. removal_of_mariner_exam_questions.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Money quote: Berwick is certainly qualified to head a national health care system (for a pro-Berwick piece see the Washington Post). He's also a realist about what that implies. A few years ago he said that sick people tend to be poorer, and poor people tend to be sicker, and if you want an excellent, humane, and rational health care system it is going to be redistributive. It has to be. An

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Hat tip: Dr Peter Boettke!Consider the post-investigation of the so-called "Climategate". A internationally recognized scientist asserted that many are reluctant to release their research because they worked so hard to obtain it.However, high-quality research must be able to be duplicated. No one should accept, "This is the result we found and we're right." - I'm minded of the cold-fusion

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Gulf of Mexico response | Oil spill | BP

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To err is human. To really f...oul things up takes regulationWhy does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit

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PJ O'Rourke on sadistical relationshipsEnd Them, Don't Mend Them

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DoD Secretary Robert Gates announced June 21 that he recommended that President Obama nominate Gen. James F. Amos, an Iraq war veteran with an aviation background, to become the next commandant of the Marine Corps. Amos would replace Gen. James Conway, who is scheduled to retire later this year, according to DoD.If confirmed, Amos would be the first aviator to head the Marine Corps, DoD said.

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Nanny statenanny stateO nanny nanny nanny Nanny statenanny stateO nanny nanny nannyNANNY STATE!Ba-dum-bum-bum

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Worth reading just for this paragraph: "There's actually nothing in the story to justify the Times headline writer's claim that Palmetto State Republicans had "biases" to "buck" in order to nominate Haley and Scott, but unbucked biases are not exactly uncommon on major newspaper staffs."Insert 'bucking around' pun here.

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I'm not sure this is true, but it's real entertaining:Barack Obama, who has in recent days turned haplessness into an art form, played a masterstroke today, making perhaps the canniest, wiliest, even wisest decision of his generally rudderless presidency. I refer, of course, to his appointment of David Petraeus to the Afghan war command, in place of the Rolling-Stoned Stanley McChrystal. In doing

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Clearly our government has promised a lot of public medical care, as well as much spending on pensions both for future Social Security recipients and for retired public employees. Few elected officials want to crusade for higher taxes. But our aging population and public medical spending that grows faster than the rest of the economy are nothing new to 2010.

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Some stuff I hadn't known about the McChrystal Debacle (emphasis mine):I think I have figured it out. If you read the Rolling Stone article carefully, you can see that the reporter, Michael Hastings, has woven three stories together. One story is the story of General McChrystal trying to keep up morale in a tough war with his troops thinking he is too worried about civilian casualties and he is

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1. The degree of success usually realized in IA coordination is directly proportionate to the distance from the Beltway.2. Consensus building is overrated. Successful interagency coordination requires a lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way approach.3. Personalities trump bureaucracies and formal chains of command. If your initiative isn't progressing due to a certain personality, go

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BBC News - Tea and coffee 'protect against heart disease'

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A wizard's words finally set free -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

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OpenSecrets | Cash Counter Widgets

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"Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce reported this week that the number of jobs requiring an associates' degree or more will grow faster than the pool of qualified people, to the tune of a three-million-worker shortfall by 2018" Center on Education and the Workforce -

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Wow.Money quote:The Archbishop’s Pentecost letter is the public half of a campaign to rein in the Episcopal Church, The Church of England Newspaper has learned, and follows a private letter delivered to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asking her to consider withdrawing from active participation on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion.Conform or face the consequences,

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So... back in the last year of the last millennium, JFQ (Joint Forces Quarterly), the professional publication of the National Defense University noted that an article published in a People's Republic of China journal had called for China to be able to win a war against the US by 2029. There was a lot of intra-military discussion about this. Specifically: was the PRC putting the US on notice --

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Helen Thomas Retires After Palestine Flap | NBC WashingtonPerhaps the greatest journalist since Leni Riefenstahl turns in her papers.Helen Thomas Retires After Palestine Flap | NBC Washington

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Money shot: “I don’t want to scare anyone but I am considering investing in barbed wire and guns, things are not looking good and rates are heading higher,” EU Debt Crisis - Markets About to Turn Nasty, Buy Barbed Wire: Advisor - CNBCComes from NBC

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I suspect it's not just the Ds!Political Memo - Democrats Skip Town Halls to Avoid Voter Rage - NYTimes.com

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Peggy Noonan: The Big Alienation - WSJ.com

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If you listen to certain politicians and talking heads you might get the impression that the federal fiscal sky is falling. Unfortunately, unlike Chicken Little, they may be right.The Treasury Department recently issued the 2009 financial report of the United States government. Whereas there is lots of talk in Congress and in the press about the federal budget, the annual report was released to

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Military asserts right to return cyber attacks - Yahoo! News

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voters consistently say they'd rather cut spending than raise taxes to reduce the deficit. But when you ask them what they want to cut, the only program there is strong support for cutting is foreign aid . . . which is like trying to pay off your credit cards by slashing your chewing gum budget. But wait a minute! We spend stomptillion bucks on foreign aid!I bet we can make this balance if we

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Ya think?Economists Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have recently shown that a 90 percent debt-to-GDP ratio usually touches off a crisis.This year, the debt will reach 63 percent of GDP, a ratio that has ignited crises in smaller wealthy nations. Fiscal crises gripped Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Ireland when their debts were below

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Tyler Cowan's comment at marginalrevolution.com finishes with a great quote (i.e., one designed to make some people froth at the mouth:By the way, I applaud the authors for their "stones" in writing the last paragraph of the paper, such as: The conservative emphasis on family, traditional values and gender roles, and prolife anti-abortion sentiments all stress investment in children – for both

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http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/essential_health_tips/printer.php

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From Jane Hamscher of FireDogLake. Who is, mirable dictu, right!Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill | FDL ActionA middle class family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year for insurance. After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 in discretionary income — out of which they would have to cover clothing, credit card and other debt, child care and

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Yeah, I'll bet it did.Proposed legislation that would require the firing of federal employees with outstanding IRS tax liens drew a lot of criticism at a March 17 hearing on the bill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce.Under the bill, any fed with an outstanding personal tax debt that has triggered a wage or property lien would be subject to

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In which we, O Best Beloved, discover that there are some REALLY INTERESTING skews causing echos of the Audi Adventures of Ye soi-distant (*pun*) past:In the original Sudden Acceleration Incident craze that afflicted America in the late eighties, the National Highway Safety Transportation Administration eventually ruled that the problem was "pedal misapplication", aka stepping on the gas when you

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Money shot: Millennials could become the chump generation. They could suffer for their elders' economic sins, particularly the failure to confront the predictable costs of baby boomers' retirement. This poses a question. In 2008, Millennials voted 2 to 1 for Barack Obama; in surveys, they say they're more disposed than older Americans to big and activist government. Their ardor for Obama is

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Chickens, Turkeys, Deficits And the Future of America - KiplingerPosted using ShareThis

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Chickens, Turkeys, Deficits And the Future of America - KiplingerPosted using ShareThis

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Yep, sometimes Dads aren't very good a saying things...PerhapstheBestFordCommercia.wmv (video/x-ms-wmv Object)

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Michael Douglas, a founder of greenpeace, and the Prez: Coal-lee How!Michael Douglas a supporter of nuclear power?Yes, the star and producer of TheChina Syndrome -- released less than two weeks before the incident at Three Mile Island -- told NPR that he "was against nuclear power for a long time, but have dealt with the realities of global warming, and what the alternatives are....I do support

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Not that the Greatest Newspaper that Absolutely Ever Was would do something like this:The Story the New York Times Won't Touch | The Big Money

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Thursday, February 4th, 2010Joan Bondareff, of Counsel Blank Rome LLP, offers MarEx readers an executive review of the requested 2011 MARAD budget. On February 1, 2010, the Obama Administration submitted its FY2011 budget to Congress, thereby kicking off the year-long budget deliberations for the Federal government, including the key maritime agencies, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the

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Money shot: "...materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal..."I 'spect a bunch of innumerate's sat 'round a-talkin'Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Obama Administration’s Health Care Proposal

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I left the title alone because it's not clear that the pitchforks-and-torches protesters were protesting lack of GOVERNMENT health care.Healthcare Protesters Wield Pitchforks, Torches in CT

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Good question, that.Why are there no Arab Democracies?

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Ye flippin' stars, this is from Felix Salmon!In the Marketplace letters segment yesterday, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) took issue with me saying that infrastructure investment is an extremely expensive way of creating jobs and “costs a good $200,000 per job”. Just as well I didn’t use the $1 million figure here, which I stand by, and which was fact-checked by the Atlantic!How the

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Here is a question I have been pondering. If you were a member of the fiscal commission, what would you try to achieve?The answer for liberals is easy: They want to raise taxes to fund the existing, and even an expanded, social safety net, while politically insulating the Democrats as much as possible from the charge of being the "tax and spend" party. President Obama can then campaign in 2012

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