With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]
Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · No Comments
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Mystery Solved: Why So Many Missouri Kids Smoke
November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m not a smoker, but I might have an answer to the mystery of why, according to a just-released report (pdf) from a coalition of public health organizations, Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco. First, some background from a news release about the report: Missouri currently spends [...]
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ACLU Predictable in Representation of TB Cases
June 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
In a Bob McCarty Writes post May 3, I asked the following question: If liberals oppose the GITMO-style approach to dealing with people who want nothing less than to wipe America off the map, what will they say to locking up people when the next disease pandemic sweeps the planet? Three days ago, after news [...]
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