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S. Korean Econoblogger Jailed for Getting it Right

…month, invoking a seldom-used telecommunications law that charges him with harming the public by spreading “false rumors.” Yet Minerva (no one knew him as Park until police raided his house…

Proportionate Response

…the other hand, if police officers were allowed and encouraged to routinely shoot one out of every two people caught driving faster than the posted speed limit, and the odds…

General Shinseki is back

…call for several hundreds of thousands troops to police, maintain infrastructure, and keep thing going in Iraq after the attack, taken from direct experience in the Balkan region. Welcome back…

What do we want our economy to do? Misuse of GDP

…wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s…

SKG responds to post on privatizing cities

…health, libraries, etc. The biggest result of the changes were that police and firemen were fired by the County, and many hired back by the Cities. Zoning and other local…

Follow-up to the previous spam

…phones (Sarah “I hate robo-calls” Palin’s new robocall, check), and GOTV programs (riot police, check), and “participating party committees” (Palin wardrobe, check). Good uses of money all, to be certain….

Privatized cities

…the city of Sandy Springs in Georgia decided to bring in a multinational corporation to run all of the city’s services – with the exception of police and firefighting –…

Mass. income tax repeal

…would affect everybody — schools, police, municipal services, snow plowing. I couldn’t begin to tell you what we would do.” Although Massachusetts is still often tagged with its “Taxachusetts” reputation,…

Afghanistan and news

…McKiernan said it will take more than adding troops to stabilize Afghanistan — including efforts to strengthen the Afghan government, improve the economy and build its military and police forces……

Enemy combatants are here

…state police violated federal laws prohibiting departments that receive federal funds from maintaining databases with information about political activities and affiliations. The activist was identified as Max Obuszewski. His “primary…