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Federal Prisons:Mackerel Is The Currency of Choice – Carpe Diem
WSJ: There’s been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004. That’s when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard…
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Let Private Contractors Do It – InsiderOnline
On September 18 in Minneapolis, the Saint Anthony bridge reopened for traffic. The bridge had collapsed last August, killing 13 people. Popular Mechanics has dubbed the rebuild “one of the most impressive infrastructure projects of the decade…
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The Tax Foundation – Vice-Presidential Debate: Plenty of Errors in Tax Policy Rhetoric
The first part of tonight’s vice-presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin focused heavily on the issue of taxes. Unfortunately, like the first presidential debate, both candidates played loose with the facts. Even worse is that Sen. Biden and Gov. Palin made some of the same exact errors that their running mates…
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Friends of the Earth is running an internet ad campaign that attempts to link the current world financial crisis with the future prospects of nuclear power. Paul Gunter – a career anti-nuclear activist – has tried to make the same link…