–Is it a proper function of government, especially state government, to require a single man to obtain health insurance that includes maternity care, or an tea-totalling abstainer to obtain health insurance that includes substance abuse services? (Via Cato@Liberty.) –What are the tax implications of Sarah Palin's new GOP-funded wardrobe? –Since when does a supposed "economic [...]
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Time to clean out the aggregator — ITEM: The New York City Council has repealed term limits, allowing themselves (oh, and mayor Michael Bloomberg) to run for additional terms. The fact that term limits were enacted, twice, by popular referendum, along with the fact that Bloomberg previously described seeking to overturn term limits as — [...]
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Have you decided on a Halloween costume yet?
Hopefully your costume pursuits have been more productive than UndertheTumTumTree's were. Happy Halloween. Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQFiled under: Sunday CuteTuber™ | 1 Comment »
What constitutes a "small business"? Apparently, Dell Computer. And Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and other S&P 500 companies, at least according to the federal government: SBA acting Administrator Sandy Baruah estimated that federal agencies overstated their progress by $5 billion to $10 billion last year by improperly claiming that small firms received work that actually [...]
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Apparently the threat of gay men coming after their sons (or husbands, for that matter) isn't enough to keep some redneck Evangelical mothers lying awake at night: The homosexual agenda wants people to think that homosexual men are safe for women to hang around and even be alone with. Nothing could be further from the [...]
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So I'm researching hotels for a possible domestic getaway with a buddy. With a short list in hand, I do what I always do: check TripAdvisor. Glancing through the reviews, I came across this entry: We were not going to stay here as it was too far out of the ___ downtown area but then [...]
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Barney Frank calls for making Wall Street bonuses illegal: "There should be a moratorium on bonuses," Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told reporters yesterday in Washington. "They have a negative incentive effect because they are the ones that say if you take a risk and it pays off you get a big bonus," and if it [...]
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The Social Security Administration recently announced its annual (and automatic) increase in old-age benefits: 5.8%, the largest in recent memory, thanks to the recent (and temporary) oil price spike. Of course, as is always the case, year after year, one has to read a bit further down to find any mention of the flip side [...]
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–Is it a proper function of government to sentence a 20-year old man to jail, and caning, because his father is displeased with his "idleness"? ("He is not listening to words and he is bringing shame to my family. I am tired of his nefarious deeds. Please put this boy in prison so that I [...]
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The United States has dropped war crimes charges against five more Guantanamo Bay detainees: Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld had been appointed the prosecutor for all five cases, but at a pretrial hearing for a sixth detainee earlier this month, he openly criticized the war-crimes trials as unfair. Vandeveld said the military was withholding exculpatory [...]
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