links for 2010-09-23
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A great example of how modern technology could facilitate toll roads. The government is using it to manage traffic in London but the principles are the same.
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A nice bit of perspective here.
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Between 2001 and 2009 George W. Bush did not "cut back on investments in education," he increased them by 58 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars. Regulations? "The Bush team has spent more taxpayer money on issuing and enforcing regulations than any previous administration in U.S. history," Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy wrote in January 2009, in a piece that should be distributed to every audience member before an Obama speech.
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They both come off like hateful, arrogant pricks. Sick of both of them at this point. And most people watching will immediately say, "X really wiped the floor with Y!" based on who they agree with. But they were both an embarrassment.
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"Where can we find prophets who are not arsonists?"
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Jenkins has since been charged with "using the Internet to entice an underage person into sexual activity", her undoing being that, during their earlier communications, the boy eventually and explicitly told her he was only 15, yet she kept up her pursuit, later telling a Federal Agent "it did not matter how old he was".