President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping “drain the swamp” of corruption, in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-SF) words. However it is hardly “the start of a new day in Washington” that Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) called it.
The core reform in the bill is requiring that earmark sponsors be identified. Unfortunately, naming those sponsors will not deter much pork nor substantially change the bipartisan culture of corruption.
How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq. But there’s one thing Americans don’t talk about: the lives of Iraqis, or, rather, the deaths of Iraqis. It’s about time that we think about the numbers. Opinion Research Business, a highly reputable polling firm in the UK, has just completed a detailed and rigorous survey of Iraqis. Here is the grisly bottom line.
In an opinion piece on Bloomberg, Mark Gilbert writes
Alan Greenspan is in the news a lot currently because of the release of his new book. I haven’t read the book. Nor will I read it if it means that I have to buy it or if reading it means that Alan Greenspan in any other way will financially benefit from it. Enriching a hypocritical fraud like Greenspan goes against my principles.
Andrew Meyer, a UF student from Weston, is tasered and taken away by police after asking John Kerry a question during a speech. Kerry seems to want to answer his questions, but the police move in and tackle him to the ground, Kerry goes on to crack a joke while they taser him and the police later state that he was attempting to incite a riot.
“It’s in our interest to have a strong FDA,” said GMA (Grocery Manufacturers Association) President Cal Dooley, a former California congressman. “We need to have consumer confidence in the food products.”
Which is a superior billing method: metered or unlimited bandwidth?
Arguably the billing methods and cycles for a service boils down to a management decision, it is an issue of business models, therefore neither one is a priori “good” or “bad.”
James Fenimore Cooper, America’s first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans’ sense of history in the 19th century. However, Cooper also wrote about political issues, particularly in The American Democrat (1838), whose themes reflect America’s founders, in sharp contrast to modern American practice.
Chapter 4 is one of the longest chapters of the book. It is densely packed with a fairly detailed account of a number of highly significant points concerning the origin of the Austrian school of economics, distinctiveness of the contributions of its main representatives, its relation to other schools and currents in economic theory.
