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• Fall 2009 Regulatory Agendas Released

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 505
  The Fall 2009 regulatory agendas (click on the link: The Regulatory Plan - Current Agency Statements of Regulatory Priorities) are out for federal agencies including the Department of Labor and the EEOC. Agencies issue these priority-setting documents twice a year....
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• Illinois Races To The Top…Or At Least Toward Where They Were Before The Recession

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Chicago Current’s Katy Yeiser reports that the Illinois State Board of Education will apply for a $400 million slice of the Education Department’s $4.3 billion, stimulus-funded “Race to the Top” grant program. Illinois could really use the money: the state is borrowing $3.5 billion this year to ...
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• Thomson Detainee Plan Inches Forward

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin and Peter Finn report that it is likely the Obama administration will turn Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois into a federal prison by “late winter,” enabling the housing of Guantanamo detainees. As my piece this weekend reported , the once hysterical ...
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• Ill-Equipped For An Afghanistan Escalation

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Washington Post’s Ernest Londono has a really interesting piece on war resources: as it draws down from Iraq, the U.S. military is giving equipment like passenger vehicles to the Iraq government. Some military officials in Afghanistan are upset about this, saying they could use the equipment. When labor and ...
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• Jobs for the taking – but who wants them?

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  For a long time, I’ve contended that one piece of solving the puzzle of energy independence is getting to our own supply of oil and natural gas – supplies we have but are locked away by federal regulations. An ancilliary benefit of domestic oil and natural gas exploration is the creation of thousands of new jobs. ...
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• Snow: 2.5 inches for Alexandrias West End

  
  William World News - William F. Yurasko's blog — Authority: 433
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The morning after, I went out and measured the snowfall total here in the West End. While many more inches worth of snow undoubtedly fell yesterday, the warm ground (we havent even had a frost yet) limited accumulation. That being said, the official William World News total is 2.5 inches. In Old ...
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• A good political brawl

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  We really need more of this: people on the right calling b.s. against the people on the left. This tussle is between People for the American Socialist Way and Americans for Limited Government and the subject is President Obama’s close aide Valerie Jarrett. Here’s ALG’s side: Americans for Limited Government ...
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• From Cuba To Illinois: Resettling Gitmo Inmates In An Illinois Prison Could Be An Economic Boon — But Does It Solve The Terrorist Detention Dilemma?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  Thomson, Illinois A day after Attorney General Eric Holder revealed his plan to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in federal court, the Chicago Tribune reported another change in the “war on terror” – the White House’s initiative to move some Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainees to a rural ...
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• SNOW! First snow of the season in Alexandria

  
  William World News - William F. Yurasko's blog — Authority: 433
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Just after 10:30 a.m. the first snow of the 2009-2010 winter began falling. There has not even been a frost here in the West End and yet we have the beautiful frozen precipitation falling now. Im firing up the grill just for the novelty of grilling in the snow. More photos and a snowfall total ...
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• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 568
  A fire in a Russian nightclub has killed over 100 people. Suicide bomber kills 40 in Pakistan. American Amanda Knox has been convicted of murder in Italy. The Senate preserves long-term healthcare in the proposed bill. Sen. Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend to be a U.S. attorney. The Florida ...
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• Friday night videos episode 15

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  Since I skipped the weekend of Thanksgiving the return episode is bursting at the seams with stuff, so let’s get cracking! This one is short, sweet, and to the point. It could be the theme for most of my FNV episodes and it comes from one of my favorite Senators, Jim DeMint (via the Washington News-Observer.)   ...
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• The Anti-Broder Center

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  Mark: Something I’ve been noticing lately is that the perjorative “centrist” has been getting applied with increasing regularity to an entirely new group of people by both left and right. Historically, it’s been a term that referred to establishment elites who, while having any number of letters after their ...
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• Illinois Blogging: Gov Cracks Down on Gangs — What Are Gangs?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Chicago Tribune’s John Byrne reports that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law stipulating that gang members caught with a loaded gun will receive at least three years in prison. They will receive a maximum of ten years in prison, even though possession of firearms is otherwise legal in many parts of ...
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• Dying to pass a new tax

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  Yep, leave it to House Democrats – they must figure there’s no rest for the weary, so no tax relief for the dying. Yesterday, the House voted 225-200 ( with 26 Democrats joining the GOP ) to shelve the one-year moratorium on the 45% estate tax currently in place, which was enacted as part of President Bush’s ...
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• Famous Friday [Round Up]

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 442
  The Tiger Woods transgressions took over the TV, Tai Shan is leaving Washington for China, Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton are getting hitched, Washington DC is bracing for Breana Teubner’s visit next week, Daily Candy is leaving DC, Nerd Nite vs. Telecom Prom is coming, Oliver Stone gave up on President Obama, ...
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• Jobs Summit Seems To Have Solved All The Problems

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  I support deficit spending to create more jobs: people need jobs and the stimulus it will provide to the economy will work long-term to repay the debt. Still, this report from the Wall Street Journal’s Neil King, Jr. and Naftali Bendavid was pretty funny : Democrats have begun to hash out how to pay for a mix ...
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• Military Commission’s Really The Only Way To Go In Prosecuting Bin Laden’s Drivers

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reports that “60 to 70 detainees could be prosecuted in military commissions, but that some of those cases will go to federal court and some, in the end, may not go to trial at all. The administration is expected to make a series of announcements in coming weeks about which ...
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• Cardin: GOP “not playing fair” on health care

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  Well, that was a fun 40 minutes. Earlier this moring I listened to a conference call with Maryland’s Senator Ben Cardin promoted by the folks at Organizing Against America. It was sort of like sneaking behind enemy lines. Host Jason Waskey (the State Director) briefly went through the history of OAA, which ...
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• Privacy & Advertising Discussions in DC Dec. 7 & 9

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 573
  If you follow privacy policy, you won’t want to miss these two great events. First, on Monday (12/7), the Federal Trade Commission will be holding the first of three “Exploring Privacy” roundtables at its conference center (601 New Jersey Avenue, NW). This all-day event ( agenda ) will include five panel ...
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• Obama’s Financiers Okay Extra $60 Billion for Pentagon

  
  Wired: Danger Room — Authority: 127
  For those of you who hoped — or worried — that the Obama administration would mean a big cut to defense spending, think again. The Office of Management and Budget ” has approved a nearly $60 billion increase in the Pentagon’s base budget between fiscal years 2011 and 2015,” InsideDefense.com reports. ...
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