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1.Regional Employment Report: Unemployment Rate up in 30 States, Down in 9; Manufacturing States Benefit Most (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
In a headline trumpeting the wrong thing, Bloomberg is reporting Unemployment Decreased in Nine U.S. States in January.The unemployment rate decreased in nine U.S. states in January and climbed in 30, signaling the thawing of the labor market is not br...
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2.Sebelius Demands Health Insurance CEOs Explain Rate Hikes (www.truthout.org)
As part of the White House's final push on health care reform, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday called for health insurance executives to publicly explain why they are raising premiums. "It's time for these insurance comp...
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3.Sorry About the Intervention (www.truthout.org)
As Australia marks two years since its historic apology to the indigenous population, the emergency measures in the Northern Territory may be giving the government something else for which to say sorry.read more
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4.Immigration Reform Meeting Postponed to Sharp Criticism From Advocates (www.truthout.org)
A meeting among President Barack Obama and Sens. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on immigration reform scheduled, to take place Monday, has been postponed due to a canceled flight from South Carolina - Senator Graham'...
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5.Iran Women Rights Defenders Continue Undeterred by Prison Detention (www.truthout.org)
Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of government crackdown and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders. In ...
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6.In Chile, Bachelet Steps Down (www.truthout.org)
Michelle Bachelet’s presidency comes to a tumultuous end less than two weeks after her country withstood an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Here, the author assesses what her term in office has meant for women in Chile and what lies ahead. read more
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Hubris? We’re bigger than that!read more
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8.Lejeune Water Probe: Did Marine Corps Hide Benzene Data? (www.truthout.org)
Washington - Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor that was involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decade...
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9.Bill Moyers Journal | NYU President John Sexton (www.truthout.org)
Airtime: Friday, March 12, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here). read more
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10.More Student Opportunities (divisionoflabour.com)
Eric Daniel emailed me some additional opportunities for students which (I think) I forgot to post. 1. The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism three-day conference, which includes room, board, tuition, books, and travel money. 2. The Fund for...
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11.Socialism is inefficient? Is the Pope Catholic? (divisionoflabour.com)
Most Catholic social thought seems to disappointingly bend communitarian, so I always enjoy reading from my former boss Fr. Sirico: "The Great Lie: Pope Benedict XVI On Socialism." History is strewn with intellectuals who imagined that they could save ...
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12.Quote of the Morning (divisionoflabour.com)
"Many mistakes really are hard to see until you actually make them. But socialism wasn't one of them." That's Bryan Caplan on the "New Socialist Man" argument....
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13.Morning Links (www.theagitator.com)
USA Today tracks the remarkable recent progress toward the legalization of marijuana. The Catholic church can’t bring itself to defrock priests who diddle little boys, but it’s perfectly willing to expel a little girl from private school be...
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14.Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist (blog.mises.org)
When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. But one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. FULL ARTICLE by Jeff Riggenbach Join ...
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15.Inventive Progress, Part 2 (blog.mises.org)
For thousands of years under the Old World concept of a static economy operating under bureaucratic control, human beings lived in hunger, filth, and disease. They worked ceaselessly at backbreaking drudgery to keep life in wretched bodies. FULL ARTIC...
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Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor. She argues that individuals should be free to sell their or...
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Glamour is "not just about movie stars," says Virginia Postrel. The Editor in Chief of Deepglamour.net and former Editor in Chief of Reason magazine points out that glamour, which originally meant a literal magic spell "that promises to to transcend or...
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18.A Constitutional Dollar (blog.mises.org)
Are you aware that a Federal Reserve dollar bill is not a constitutional dollar? Perhaps you are, but if so, do you know what a constitutional dollar literally is? FULL ARTICLE by Michael Rozeff Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Is Go...
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19.Can I borrow a dollar to buy a house in Detroit? (blog.mises.org)
The Guardian finds the whole thing rather puzzling. Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:A free market in money Free Markets in Good Times, Big Government in Bad Times New online books additionsRelated posts:A free market in moneyFree Ma...
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On March 3, 2010, Adrian Moore, vice president of research at Reason Foundation, appeared on Fox Business with Stuart Varney to comment on California's prison guard pensions and the large issue of the Golden State's buget shortfalls.Approximate...
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21.Nick Gillespie on PBS's Two-Way Street (reason.tv)
On February 19, 2010, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie made a special apperance via webcam on PBS's Two-Way Street to ask the panel of experts on whether America should look to Portugal's drug policies for its future.Approximately 1.13 minut...
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22.US: Slowly, Limits on Pot Are Fading (www.mapinc.org)
USA Today, 09 Mar 2010 - States' Moves Reflect 'New Era' of Acceptance LOS ANGELES -- James Gray once saw himself as a drug warrior, a former federal prosecutor and county judge who sent people to prison for dealing pot and other drug offenses. Gradual...
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The Providence Journal, 08 Mar 2010 - Why decriminalize marijuana when drugs are central to many of the problems relating to gangs, teenage suicide, teenage violence and low academic achievement? Anyone close to the issue -- teachers, police officers, ...
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24.Strong Chinese Exports Cause Aussie Dollar to Soar (dailyreckoning.com)
Yesterday’s price action in the currencies versus the dollar was a drag, man… We did, however, see the higher yielding currencies begin to move away from the pack of currencies led by the euro (EUR). That move higher by the likes of Australia (AU...
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Kevin Carson: "The struggle between big government and big business is about as authentic as the struggle between a “good cop” and “bad cop” in a police interrogation room."
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