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• Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2008: Early Release

  
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  Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2008: Early Release Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (DOT) The complete Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts annual reports contain vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and vehicle registration data that are made available only in the late autumn or early winter. For the 2008 ...
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• FEMA Announces Final Rule On Assistance To Evacuee Host States

  
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  FEMA Announces Final Rule On Assistance To Evacuee Host States Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS) he Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced a final rule enabling host states that shelter residents evacuated from presidentially declared ...
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• SOMALIA GRADUATION ATTACK

  
  My Daily Thoughts and Moods — Authority: 116
  Graduation is supposed to be happy moment to graduates and their kins but it turned out to be a sad moment in Somalia. A suicide bomber from Somalia cut this happiness during a graduation of 43 medical engineering and computer science students.  This is another carnage that is beyond contempt. My gosh what is ...
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• LEAVING FOR AN OFFICIAL TRIP

  
  My Daily Thoughts and Moods — Authority: 116
  I will be going to Manila on December 8 to attend the 8th national conference on the Community Based Monitoring system. This is a tool used to determine the status of local government units in the areas indicated in this tool. I do not like to be leaving as I have to supervise the repairs in the house but I have no ...
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• Healthcare Inspection Review of Selected Pharmacy Operations in Veterans Health Administration Facilities

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 155
  Healthcare Inspection Review of Selected Pharmacy Operations in Veterans Health Administration Facilities (PDF; 219 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General The purpose of our review was to: (1) evaluate pharmacy controls related to security and management of controlled ...
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• MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE

  
  My Daily Thoughts and Moods — Authority: 116
  The last day for the filing of candidacy for local and national elective positions, which is December 1 is over.  So, the local and national elections will push through in May 2011.  I hope that there will be a peaceful and orderly elections although it has been smeared with the condemnable Maguindanao Ampatuan ...
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• New From the GAO

  
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  New GAO Reports, Correspondences and Testimonies (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office 3 December 2009 + Reports 1. U.S. Department of Justice: Information on Employment Litigation, Housing and Civil Enforcement, Voting, and Special Litigation Sections’ Enforcement Efforts from Fiscal Years 2001 ...
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• Cato’s Legal Arguments Worry U.S. Government

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Last month, Cato (joined by Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett) filed a brief in United States v. Comstock , a case regarding the constitutionality of a law authorizing the federal government to civilly commit anyone in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons whom the attorney general certifies to be “sexually ...
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• Today’s White House “Jobs Summit”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Today’s Politico Arena asks: The WH Jobs Summit: “A little less conversation? A little more action? ( please)” My response: Today’s White House “jobs summit” reflects little more, doubtless, than growing administration panic over the political implications of the unemployment picture.  With the ...
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• New 2009 Edition! The Social Security Fix-It Book

  
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  New 2009 Edition! The Social Security Fix-It Book Source: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Social Security has a long-term financing problem. More of us will soon be collecting benefits with not many more paying taxes to support the program. The Social Security Fix-It book is a short, colorful ...
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• Social Security Claiming Guide

  
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  Social Security Claiming Guide Source: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College At what age should you begin claiming Social Security benefits? If you’re approaching retirement, it’s the most important financial decision you’ll likely make. The Social Security Claiming Guide sorts through all the ...
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• Should Scotland be independent?

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 119
  This week the Scottish Government released a White Paper on the future government of Scotland. This follows on from the earlier national conversation on what form it should take. Listen to Alex Salmond of the SNP outlining his plans (via the BBC website) Here are some more useful resources selected by Intute ...
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• Commission Issues 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration

  
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  Commission Issues 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration Source: Federal Trade Commission The Commission has issued the “2009 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration.” This is the FTC’s fifth annual report on the state of ethanol production in the United States, as required by the Energy Policy Act ...
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• New From the GAO

  
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  New GAO Reports and Testimonies (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office 2 December 2009 + Reports 1. Supply Chain Security: Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis Would Assist DHS and Congress in Assessing and Implementing the Requirement to Scan 100 Percent of U.S.-Bound Containers 2. Federally ...
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• Apropos of Nothing, Your H. L. Mencken Quote of the Day

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  From the best for-pleasure book I read (so far!) in 2009, Notes on Democracy : The Cheerful Visage of H. L. Mencken “The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind.  He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of ...
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• A Free Press Only Counts if It’s on Dead Trees

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The Associated Press reports : The federal government is wading into deliberations over the future of journalism as printed newspapers, television stations and other traditional media outlets suffer from Americans’ growing reliance on the Internet. With the media business in a state of economic distress as ...
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• Not the Change We Hoped For

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Barack Obama first became a credible presidential candidate on the basis of his antiwar credentials and his promise to change the way Washington works. But he has now made both of George Bush’s wars his wars. The Washington Post ’s front-page analysis began , “President Obama assumed full ownership of the war ...
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• The Cost of Government Guarantees

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  John Kay’s column in yesterday’s Financial Times criticizes government guarantees to banks because they involve hidden but large costs. According to Kay: Such guarantees distort competition: sheltered banks outperform rivals not because of greater efficiency, but because capital becomes cheaper to obtain. ...
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• Former Government Officials, Including Members of Congress, Cashing in as Lobbyists for Financial Industry, Public Citizen Analysis Shows

  
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  Former Government Officials, Including Members of Congress, Cashing in as Lobbyists for Financial Industry, Public Citizen Analysis Shows Source: Public Citizen More than 900 former federal employees, including 70 former members of Congress, have gone to work as lobbyists for the financial services sector in ...
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• Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009

  
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  Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009 (PDF; 636 KB) Source: Congressional Budget Office From CBO Director’s Blog : Recipients report that about 640,000 jobs were created or retained with ARRA funding through September 2009. ...
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