A Boston man spent 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t committ — even though the FBI knew who the real killers were.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for July 2002.
Win 2 airline tickets to
Win 2 airline tickets to LA and $1000 cash while you act as an official judge at the 2002 Southern California Venus International Swimweat Model Search Finals.
Bob Novak reports on what
Bob Novak reports on what he calls a smoking gun which proves that IRS audits are used as a political tool. Novak reports only on Democratic uses of the tool, because the e-mail in question came out of the Clinton White House. It’s worth noting that the Republican Congress exercised its power in the same way. Often Republicans and Democrats in Congress cut deals across the aisle to audit each political faction equally, which is how I understand that Citizens for a Sound Economy came to be audited some years back.
Crain’s Chicago Business
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that United Airlines will start charging passengers a $20 fee to use paper tickets for trips that could be booked electronically and that it plans to have all electronic ticketing by the end of 2003.
Erin Olsen has
Erin Olsen has free CDs for bloggers.
Delta is running a
Delta is running a contest for free Lenny Kravitz tickets which includes airfare for four to LA and hotel stay. New e-mail subscribers also get a free Lenny Kravitz CD.
Political correctness as public choice?
Political correctness as public choice? Erin O’Connor outlines the bureaucratic machinery of the academic liberal establishment.
Upstate New York school superintendant
Upstate New York school superintendant sent to detention for public display of affection.
Patio Pundit gives us an
Patio Pundit gives us an excellent post that explains why record store technology could have prevented a 1989 murder, and how that same technology promoted both honest markets and the development of country and rap music. Definitely worth a read.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post carries a story about Castro’s take on U.S. accounting scandals. The piece describes how Cubans were rounded up from surrounding areas to attend the speech, and says that this was done “(w)ith the efficiency of a centrally planned socialist state.” Surely it isn’t the official position of the Washington Post that socialist central planning is efficient?
