Arizona immigration law will boost crime in U.S. cities, police chiefs say

The new Arizona law will intimidate crime victims and witnesses who are illegal immigrants and divert police from investigating more serious crimes, chiefs from Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia said.

Why our government hates small business

“An upcoming wave of new workers in our society will never work for an established company if they can help it. To them, having a traditional job is one of the biggest career failures they can imagine.”

So wrote Michael S. Malone for The Wall Street Journal two years ago.  And he had stunning statistics [...]

Ice energy storage trial starts in California

Ice makers will be installed on roofs of 1,500 buildings in southern California. They will make ice using cheap wind power at night, then use coolant chilled by the ice during the day to power the air conditioning. This will save the buildings substantial money as well as decrease load on the grid during [...]

Cleanternet

Cleanternet promises to scrub the net clean of odious influences. Because I certainly trust governments to do the right thing and not block political sites that criticize them, don’t you?

Matt Simmons on Top Kill: “We may have an enormous problem”

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Simmons’ company is considered the investment banker to the oil industry. He says the amount of oil in the giant plume is far greater than what’s coming out [...]

Dimbulbs of the Day Award

I was just so totally sure that a Gmail account was completely anonymous too

Bonnie Jean Hoxie and her boyfriend, 29-year old Yonni Sebbag tried to sell insider information on Disney earnings anonymously to hedge funds by sending them the following letter:

Hi, I have access to Disney’s (DIS) quarterly earnings report before its [...]

BP. We’re bringing oil to America’s shores

Another fine t-shirt from the folks at Despair.com

Jamaica and Global Guerrillas

The conflict is a classic example of a hollow state (Jamaica) in conflict with local sources of order (Dudas). For many in Kingston’s slums, Dudas is a much better provider of political goods (education, security, and food) than the state, which translates into the popular support he gets locally.

Plus, Dudas, with his [...]

Calif Dems to balance budget by raiding soda bottle deposits

Really, that’s what the plan is. Raid the soda bottle deposit fund for the next 20 years then get a $8.7 billion loan from the banksters which would be financed by an oil severance tax and then swap state tax for local tax to get around the two-thirds majority rule.

What could possibly go wrong [...]

Tax the poor to feed the rich

Congress is hard at work extending a set of popular tax breaks.  Those for individuals include tuition credits, sales tax credits, and real estate tax credits.  For corporations, there are credits for the construction of housing developments, and a multitude of credits to encourage large corporations to hire new employees.

To help pay for [...]