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A week after the SEC enacted a temporary ban on naked short selling, Commissioner Paul Atkins joined FOX Business to talk about its effectiveness.
“I think the jury is still out,” Atkins said of the ban that expires tomorrow. He also said the SEC would report its findings on the ban later today.
It has been [...]

Tags: ban, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, futures, naked, paul atkins, SEC, securities exchange commission, sell, short, short selling

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Fresh on the heals of Keith Ellison defying all logic and facts and coming to the conclusion if people had more money they wouldn’t be broke, Eleanor Holmes Norton has dropped this bit of wisdom on us as well:
The District has passed new gun legislation consistent with the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the city’s [...]

Tags: ban, dc, eleanor, gun, holmes, law, norton, plano, texas, washington

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In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos.
In its final 287-page report, the WTO panel confirmed the preliminary ruling it issued in March in a dispute pitting the United States against the [...]

Tags: ban, caribbean, citizen, countrywide, gambling, internet, it, legal, mine, mines, mining, People, socialism, town, washington, wto

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Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:

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Vermont

Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]

Tags: ban, berkeley, bush, california, case, change, Education, hillbillies, it, kids, liberal, liberals, Massachusetts, Media, People, Politics, Resources, school, time, trash, university, vermont, virginia, vote, voter, voting

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Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no [...]

Tags: age, ban, Boston, cities, city, demand, it, kids, People, recession, school, time

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"The War on drugs" has taken a lot of flack from the liberal left of late. While most of them are more than happy to prosecute the hell out of anyone that smokes tobacco, the efforts to combat the hardest drugs has been met with a lot of resistance of late.  A lot of people [...]

Tags: addiction, ban, conservative, conservatives, crazy, day, dead, drugs, forces, gun, guns, hell, iowa, it, liberal, liberals, marriage, murder, People, prison, sex, smoking, time, war

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