Operatives gear up for below-the-belt sucker punches - CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sucker punches and below-the-belts can be expected as we enter the slugfest season of political attack ads. They’re already taking off the gloves for what promises to be nasty 2008 campaigns that use the newfound enormous strength and reach of the Web.
“If I’m […]
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The Best Sports Blog in Town : Find a Place to Watch the Cowboys/Packers Game
Time Warner and the NFL Network have been unable to come to an agreement. So if Time Warner is your cable provider, you’re going to be looking for someplace to watch the huge Cowboys/Packers game Thursday night. We already […]
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Suckers Wanted: How Car Dealers and Other Businesses are Taking Away Your Right to Sue
All of this is especially nefarious given that the vast majority of consumers who attempt to seek justice in mandatory arbitration lose. The nonprofit consumer group Public Citizen recently analyzed data the NAF provided to the state of California, one of […]
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MySA.com: Metro | State
The board of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District
declared several properties surplus Monday and authorized its general manager to negotiate sales agreements to bring back to the board.
It also abandoned an 18-month-old effort to get fees raised for service to new developments through application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It decided […]
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“Car manufacturers left hanging as bill grinds to halt”
Can you imagine such a headline? Detroit is unable to decide which cars to build, where to sell them, or what regulations to follow because of a bill stalled in Congress? Should such a situation ever occur, even with all our inclinations to protect the automobile industry, […]
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The Morality Quiz - TIME
The deepest foundation on which morality is built is the phenomenon of empathy, the understanding that what hurts me would feel the same way to you. And human ego notwithstanding, it’s a quality other species share. While it’s impossible to directly measure empathy in animals, in humans it’s another matter. […]
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By way of Salon
kdka.com - Military Asks Wounded Soldiers To Return Portions Of Signing Bonuses
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 […]
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MySA.com: David Hendricks
Introducing a flexible market solution called “congestion pricing” is the better action. The FAA could auction landing time slots at busy airports, setting capacity limits aimed at avoiding delays. Airlines then could sell or buy slots as passenger demand changes under a classic cap-and-trade system.
This is an incredibly common sense market solution to […]
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The Trouble Shooters “Dirty Dozen” Restaurants | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News
You’re about to fill up on turkey dinner for the next several days. But when you’re tired of leftovers, you’re going to want to eat out, right? How do you know if your favorite restaurant is clean?
WOAI put out its list of […]
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MySA.com: Metro | State
VIA Metropolitan Transit is offering free bus rides to seniors attending the Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner.
Those 55 and older will receive a free round-trip or one-way bus ride to the event. Registered VIAtrans customers also will receive free rides to the event.
Just in case we have a few who could use this.
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