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...state. Double bunking is exactly the sort of short term solution that will sustain the problem of mass incarceration. As long as we keep building more prisons, hiring more correctional officers, and cramming more inmates in cells built for one, we condone a flawed and unjust legal system. Politicians seem to think it is working, when all the evidence, from the inner city to within the prisons themselves, points to the contrary. But why is this specific policy is so harmful? In addition to being symptomatic of our government’s complicity – if not its deliberate...
...online, "Chuckolytes" seem extremely, even strangely, devoted to you. The "Viva Chuck Todd" site says you "make sense of the senseless" and sells trucker caps in your honor...
...surprised that all the passengers seem to have gotten off the plane so quickly...
...Such precautions might seem extreme until one ponders the attacks in Mumbai two months ago. Ten terrorists killed 173 and paralyzed a city of 13 million for three days, armed with little more than automatic weapons, grenades and cell phones. "Certainly, the Mumbai attacks ought to be understood clearly down to the local level," said Renuart. What got his attention - and that of everyone planning security for Obama's inaugural - is how quickly a band of terrorists could "hold a fairly large city hostage." Banning umbrellas to help keep AK-47s off the Mall, the Secret Service believes...
...President-elect Barack Obama prepares to throw money at the current downturn - a stimulus package starting at about $800 billion, plus the second $350 billion chunk of the financial bailout - we all really do seem to be Keynesians now. Just about every expert agrees that pumping $1 trillion into a moribund economy will rev up the ethereal goods-and-services engine that Keynes called "aggregate demand" and stimulate at least some short-term activity, even if it is all wasted on money pits. (See pictures of the recession...