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A great post from Robert Wright at the New York Times about why the disproportionate attention paid to Toyota recalls is worrisome and innumerate: if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million—2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.

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You Might Die in Your Toyota. It Happens.

Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that if the vote were taken today, she’d have enough support from House Democrats to pass health reform. But according to The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward , that’s news to Rep. George Miller, a close Pelosi ally who responded “I don’t know, I don’t know” when asked to verify her statement

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Nancy Pelosi Says She Has The Votes to Pass Health Reform Today. Conveniently, There Won’t Be a Vote On Health Reform Today.

Keep America Safe’s attacks on Justice Department lawyers who once represented terrorism suspects or challenged the Bush administration’s detention policies have roused the ire of attorneys and legal scholars from across the political spectrum, including conservatives who generally share the group’s views.

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You Say ‘Critic,’ We Say ‘Traitor’

The right may be backing off its brief romance with Eric Massa, but I’ve decided I like the man. Partly because he’s offering just the right combination of conspiracy theories, gay sex, and left/right convergence to make the world feel like a Gore Vidal novel

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You Can Hang Out With All the Boys

Via Instapundit comes this link to an excellent Economist debate between one-time Obama “green jobs” czar nominee Van Jones and Andy Morriss on whether the government should push green jobs like drug dealers supposedly push pot on grammar-school playgrounds. Morriss says no way in a convincing opening statement

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Green Like Me!

In Kentucky, a state legislator lays it on the line with a clarity that is stunning.

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All Politics is Local or, I Won’t Take “Free” Money if You Don’t Take “Free” Revenue

This is a chunk of text from Bill A10129 , introduced on Friday in the New York state assembly, which “Prohibits the use of salt by restaurants in the preparation of food by restaurants.” Naturally, the penalties for the use of salt while cooking food are totally proportionate and reasonable: $1,000 a pinch? $1,000 a grain? If the bill passes—which we can only hope it won’t, since it is the ravings of a madman in legislative form—it looks like the folks at most-expensive.net are going to have to revisit their entry on the world’s most expensive salt .

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$1,000 Salt Coming to New York Restaurants?

Appearing on  Real Time With Bill Maher , amateur Latin America scholar Sean Penn details his recent humanitarian trip to Haiti, reveals that he has started an NGO, and praises the United States military’s reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince, calling it the “most noble [military] mission since World War II.” (Penn has apparently forgotten the  2004 operation  to provide relief to parts of tsunami-ravaged South Asia.)  But as is his wont, Penn couldn’t get through the interview without reference to the beneficent Venezuelan and Cuban governments (who supplied “narcotics” in Haiti, despite their own drug shortages) and how Hugo Chavez is unfairly maligned in the United States media. How should one combat this misinformation campaign?

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Sean Penn Wants Me Thrown In Jail

Now run my health care! Aren’t there a coupla wars going on? A financial crisis? Health-care debates

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Thank God The FCC is Finally Looking Into Dr. Phil’s 2006 Show About Masturbation!