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Group of tourists stranded on slab of ice in Canadian Arctic | Fox News: "a 30-mile long slab of ice broke away from Baffin Island "
Wow!
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Houston program run by former prostitute treats women as victims instead of criminals | Fox News
Houston program run by former prostitute treats women as victims instead of criminals | Fox News: "Houston, Dallas and several other Texas cities began changing how they treated prostitutes after the state Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that girls 14 and under could not be prosecuted for prostitution. The ruling has been a game changer, for juveniles and adults.
Dallas and Houston are among the cities nationwide that have set up special courts to deal with child prostitutes by putting them in recovery programs. Many, they found, had been victims of sexual or physical abuse. Some were born to mothers who were drug addicts and prostitutes themselves. Others were sold to a pimp, sometimes in exchange for a box of cigarettes.
In Houston, the court, called GIRLS or Growing Independence and Restoring Lives, was loosely modeled after other specialty courts, such as the drug court that has successfully reformed 80 percent of the nearly 400 people who have graduated since it started in 2003, including Griffin."
Dallas and Houston are among the cities nationwide that have set up special courts to deal with child prostitutes by putting them in recovery programs. Many, they found, had been victims of sexual or physical abuse. Some were born to mothers who were drug addicts and prostitutes themselves. Others were sold to a pimp, sometimes in exchange for a box of cigarettes.
In Houston, the court, called GIRLS or Growing Independence and Restoring Lives, was loosely modeled after other specialty courts, such as the drug court that has successfully reformed 80 percent of the nearly 400 people who have graduated since it started in 2003, including Griffin."
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
From Stagnation to Prosperity to Stagnation | Cato Institute
From Stagnation to Prosperity to Stagnation | Cato Institute: "By the late 1970s, many viewed Britain and the United States as in terminal decline. The United Kingdom had been rotting for decades. The empire had been lost, and Britain began to look more and more like a Third World country as incomes stagnated and inflation soared."
"On this side of the Atlantic, the United States was also in despair. Real incomes had stagnated, inflation seemed to be out of control, and the establishment political class had little idea of what to do."
"In fact, Reagan is the only U.S. president to have had a degree in economics."
"the combination of living within your means and working hard most often leads to individual and national success"
"The bigger government versus smaller government experiment has been run perhaps a hundred times around the world over the past couple of centuries, and the outcome is always the same."
"On this side of the Atlantic, the United States was also in despair. Real incomes had stagnated, inflation seemed to be out of control, and the establishment political class had little idea of what to do."
"In fact, Reagan is the only U.S. president to have had a degree in economics."
"the combination of living within your means and working hard most often leads to individual and national success"
"The bigger government versus smaller government experiment has been run perhaps a hundred times around the world over the past couple of centuries, and the outcome is always the same."
Putin: Snowden, still in Moscow airport, is a 'free man' - CSMonitor.com
Putin: Snowden, still in Moscow airport, is a 'free man' - CSMonitor.com: "Yesterday Snowden was booked on an Aeroflot flight to Cuba, but he failed to show up, leaving about 30 journalists stranded aboard a 12-hour flight to Havana."
LOL!
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Obama's Damaging Admission | Cato Institute
Obama's Damaging Admission | Cato Institute: ""When the PPACA begins reducing the number of uninsured, hospitals won’t need those subsidies. In his budget, however, President Obama proposes to increase Medicaid DSH payments by $360 million in 2014, effectively rescinding next year’s cut. This deceptively small item has far-reaching significance. With this proposal, President Obama has admitted that:
1. The PPACA is not likely to reduce uncompensated care in 2014."
"Hospitals, which lobbied forthe PPACA, have been threatening that unless states implement the Medicaid expansion, the Medicaid DSH cuts will lead to layoffs and closures in their districts.
President Obama has rescued the hospital lobby from that self-inflicted wound."
1. The PPACA is not likely to reduce uncompensated care in 2014."
"Hospitals, which lobbied forthe PPACA, have been threatening that unless states implement the Medicaid expansion, the Medicaid DSH cuts will lead to layoffs and closures in their districts.
President Obama has rescued the hospital lobby from that self-inflicted wound."
Federal Climatologists Pen Fantasy Novel | Cato Institute
Federal Climatologists Pen Fantasy Novel | Cato Institute: "it fantasizes that diseases tamed in the early 20th century, like the various water-borne trots, will reappear in big numbers because of warming, neglecting the fact that working sanitation systems and refrigeration largely have eliminated them"
" “Climate change… will also alter the stability of food supplies and create new food security challenges.” But it neglected to mention that we currently burn up — in the form of ethanol — four times more food than is possibly lost to climate change."
"we are in our sixteenth consecutive year without a warming trend"
" “Climate change… will also alter the stability of food supplies and create new food security challenges.” But it neglected to mention that we currently burn up — in the form of ethanol — four times more food than is possibly lost to climate change."
"we are in our sixteenth consecutive year without a warming trend"
Attorney General Holder says 4 American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 | Fox News
Attorney General Holder says 4 American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 | Fox News: "Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009."
Spying's the Story, Not Edward Snowden | Cato Institute
Spying's the Story, Not Edward Snowden | Cato Institute: "Judging by the vicious — and irrelevant — attacks on Snowden’s character, all too many leading pundits and journalists love nothing more than a ritual ragegasm against an alleged enemy of the state.
The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen calls Snowden a “cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood”; he’s a “total slacker” with “all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger” jeers Politico’s Roger Simon. Snowden’s “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison” offers the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin; Fox News’s Ralph Peters raises the stakes: a “narcissistic traitor” who belongs on death row."
The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen calls Snowden a “cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood”; he’s a “total slacker” with “all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger” jeers Politico’s Roger Simon. Snowden’s “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison” offers the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin; Fox News’s Ralph Peters raises the stakes: a “narcissistic traitor” who belongs on death row."
NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls | Politics and Law - CNET News
NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls | Politics and Law - CNET News: "If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required"
"the NSA records the phone calls of 500,000 to 1 million people who are on its so-called target list, and perhaps even more"
"the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically -- on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to "target" a specific American citizen."
"the NSA records the phone calls of 500,000 to 1 million people who are on its so-called target list, and perhaps even more"
"the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically -- on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to "target" a specific American citizen."
Monday, June 24, 2013
A Miracle Happened Last Week in Washington: Congress Failed to Mulct the Citizenry | Cato Institute
A Miracle Happened Last Week in Washington: Congress Failed to Mulct the Citizenry | Cato Institute: "because the Congressional Budget Office said existing law would cost $973 billion over the next ten years, House Republicans claimed to be “saving” $33 billion even while spending $300 billion more."
"Consumers pay two to four times the world price for sugar, for instance. In contrast, most direct subsidies encourage increased production, which places downward pressure on prices—triggering even more subsidies. Conservation payments paradoxically encourage farmers to bring marginal land into production."
"Consumers pay two to four times the world price for sugar, for instance. In contrast, most direct subsidies encourage increased production, which places downward pressure on prices—triggering even more subsidies. Conservation payments paradoxically encourage farmers to bring marginal land into production."
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