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Inauguration War against the Automobile
Authorities to Americans wanting to visit the nation’s capital for President-elect Obama’s inauguration: DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! A Washington Post blog reports that draconian, police-state prohibitions on automobiles on bridges…
by Matthew Vadum on January 8, 2009

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Messy Divorce
An estranged husband is seeking the return of the kidney he donated to his wife, Katherine Mangu-Ward reports on Reason’s Hit & Run blog.
by Matthew Vadum on January 8, 2009

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Kit Bond to Retire
Sen. Kit Bond (R-Missouri) announced he will not be seeking reelection, a Washington Post blog reports. As far as conservatives are concerned, this could be a good thing. Bond…
by Matthew Vadum on January 8, 2009

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Porn Bailout?
If ever there was an industry that benefitted from fairly inelastic demand for its products, it’s the pornography industry. Yet even America’s pornographers are demanding a cut of the federal bailout…
by Matthew Vadum on January 8, 2009

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Hugo Chavez Restores CITGO Program
  Just days after Venezuelan-owned CITGO suspended its fuel oil assistance program in the U.S., that nation’s Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez has reinstated it, according to…
by Matthew Vadum on January 8, 2009

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Millions Missing from Philadelphia’s Hooper Foundation
“It’s fair to say that the money is not in the foundation now. I don’t know where it is,” said trustee Bruce H. Hooper, a donor to Philadelphia-area charities as…
by Robert Huberty on January 7, 2009

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When foundation presidents think
They entertain ideas about how philanthropy might change (e.g., change investment policies to reduce risk to assets; change giving philosophy from social change-making to helping people directly; increase the percentage…
by Robert Huberty on January 7, 2009

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Right-to-Kill Lawyer in Schiavo Case to be Number 3 at DOJ
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Thomas J. Perrelli to be associate attorney general, according to reports. You may remember Perrelli, managing partner in the DC office of Jenner & Block, from a…
by Matthew Vadum on January 6, 2009

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New Study of Racist Akaka Bill
The racist “Akaka Bill,” which is certain to resurface in the 111th Congress that convened today, would inflict serious harm on the economy of Hawaii if enacted, according to…
by Matthew Vadum on January 6, 2009

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Cow Tax
The EPA, last year, published its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act.  One of the suggestions the EPA made…
by Eric Heidenreich on January 6, 2009