The loathesome ex-House Speaker, who has been singularly awful on the Ground Zero mosque issue, reaches down into the septic tank for more : “I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war,” he said And if that fails, he said, the state government should step in and use its considerable power to stymie the development.
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Gingrich: Use Government Power to Trample Property Rights of Muslims
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Hat tip: Alan Vanneman! Over at Slate , Christopher Hitchens weighs in on the Beck-a-Palooza: The numbers were impressive enough on their own, but the overall effect was large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity. The Washington Post quoted Linda Adams, a Beck supporter from Colorado, who said, “We want our country to get back to its original roots,” adding that “her ancestors were on the Mayflower and fought in the American Revolution.” She was also upset that some schools no longer require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
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Hitchens on The Beck Rally: Large, Vague, & Moist, “The Waterworld of White Self-Pity”
Over at Ezra Klein’s blog, Dylan Matthews compares the Congressional Budget Office’s projected revenues and outlays for the last ten years with the fiscal reality of the last decade.
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CBO Knows?
When the Congressional Budget Office released its early scores of what eventually became the new health care bill last year, it f requently included a caveat cautioning that, yes, the law could reduce the deficit if executed exactly as written.
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Will ObamaCare’s Medicare Cuts Work?
Once again, the Congressional Budget Office reruns the same models that it used to estimate that the stimulus would create jobs and finds that, to the surprise of no one, that the model still says that the stimulus creates jobs. Hooray for the stimulus! Nevermind that the CBO’s director has confirmed that these reports do not serve as independent checks on the real-world effects of the spending, it’s news !
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Oh Look, Another CBO Report on the Effects of the Stimulus!
Over a half billion eggs have been recalled based on concerns about salmonella contamination. Predictably the FDA is using the fear engendered by the recall to urge Congress to give the agency more power over food production and processing.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Egg Recall
The Swedish authorities announce that WikiLeaks’ founder is wanted for rape, and then just as swiftly they withdraw the charge . A New York gubernatorial candidate calls for drawing the welfare state and the penal state even closer together. The Haitian government bars Wyclef Jean from the presidential election
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Reason Morning Links: WikiLeaks, Wyclef, Walt Disney World
From the SF Weekly , an aggravating tale of disability access laws providing lawyers with a cheap means of making money, harassing small business, and not really making anyone’s life much better. The story stars San Fran attorney Thomas Franovich and his wheelchair-using client Craig Yates: Frankovich…has made a legal practice of suing places that his wheelchair-using proxies find in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Frankovich’s most frequent San Francisco flier, Yates, has had a recent two-wheeled field day in the Mission. In addition to the building that houses Chile Lindo , he’s filed suit against Cafe Gratitude , Elsy’s Pupuseria , Mikado Sushi , Pete’s Bar-B-Q , and Balompie Cafe
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Your Americans with Disabilities Act at Work
Here at Reason , we have a longstanding skepticism about bills with cutesy acronyms, and occasional Reason contributor Jacob Grier clearly shares that bias in a recent Washington Examiner piece: As a general rule, the cuter the acronym politicians attach to a bill, the worse that bill actually is.
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The CARE Act: Another Reason for Anti-Acronym Bias
