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Incentives Matter: Winter Heating Options

August 31, 2006

During the last year of my undergraduate studies, when I was fortunate enough to live in a run-down 100-year old fraternity house with 9 of my friends, and all of their respective girlfriends, bar-sluts, drinking-buddies, teammates, study-partners, etc., it was not uncommon for our heating bill in the winter months to exceed $900. We [...]

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You mean, FEMA is subject to red-tape?

August 30, 2006

A little under a year ago, I swore I’d never blog about FEMA again. At least in reference to Hurricane Katrina. At the time, I honestly felt the bit was played out – the media and the blogoverse had covered it like flies on shit for the better part of way-too-long. FEMA [...]

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Castro’s Cuba Part II

August 29, 2006

[Cuban exile Luis Garcia] Garcia says he’s not sure how he feels about the fact that Castro will soon be dead. “I am apprehensive,” he says. “Who knows what might happen next? But then I think: whatever happens, it can’t be worse.”
Check out Caroline Overington’s Land of rum and rumba blighted by communism. [...]

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Detroit Public School Teachers Strike (Again)

August 28, 2006

In Detroit, the annual parade is in full force and effect. The public school teachers have gone on strike, and are picketing. Now, as taxpayers, don’t they work for us? Aren’t they providing a “public good,” you know, the type of good that is so important it can only be provided through [...]

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