JANUARY 10, 2011 By making it harder for companies to go public, Congress and regulators tilt the playing field in favor of the wealthy and well-connected. By L. GORDON CROVITZ Facebook raised $500 million last week, but the only people who could invest were the wealthiest private clients of Goldman Sachs. Instead of offering shares […]
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JANUARY 7, 2011 Microbes Mopped Up After Spill Bacteria Swiftly Devoured Methane Unleashed Into the Gulf of Mexico, Study Says By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Bacteria made quick work of the tons of methane that billowed into the Gulf of Mexico along with oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, clearing the natural gas from the waterway
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Desmond Butler, Associated Press Fri Dec 31, WASHINGTON – In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs. This week’s removal of more than 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Gulf of Mexico suffered remarkably little damage. Why were so many so willing to believe otherwise? Robert H. Nelson December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 The day after the midterm elections in November, panelists at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy discussed the various factors
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WHICH REPUBLICANS SOLD OUT? By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on December 22, 2010 With the new Republican power in Washington, it is doubly important to keep a close eye on the doings of GOP Senators and Congressmen to spot those who are straying from orthodoxy, seduced by power and the insider
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Hands off tomorrow’s Internet By Meredith Attwell Baker Tuesday, December 21, 2010; On Tuesday, in a party-line vote, the three Democratic commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will adopt “net neutrality” rules. The rules will give government, for the first time, a substantive role in how the Internet will be operated and managed, how
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