Congress has tasked the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — which held initial hearings last week — with making sure the financial system doesn’t blow up again. The commission looks like a reprise of the 1933 hearings, led by former New York Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora, that led to Wall Street reforms.
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RICHMOND, Va. - After several weeks of heavy snow and subfreezing temperatures, the sun came out and the snow began to melt Saturday for the inauguration of Republican Bob McDonnell as Virginia’s new governor.
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That old saw, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” may have first been uttered by a budgeteer because it certainly takes persistence to make budget cuts stick. President Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has tried to prove wrong former President Ronald Reagan’s observation that a government program is the closest thing we get to eternal life on Earth.
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Shariah finance: The deadly jihadist weapon with a dollar
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Unless I missed something, the San Francisco Police Department did not “unveil” a new crime-reporting Web site, www.crimemapping.com, as reported on your Dec. 20 Bright Ideas page. That Web site makes it clear that its authorship and data are provided state-by-state by the Omega Group, not the SFPD.
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Off-duty EMTs won’t help pregnant woman, UK priest endorses theft, sled dogs found starving, NFL threatens grieving player with fine, and cop nearly gets trigger happy.1|EMTs on break ignore woman going into labor
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Additional troops to Afghanistan, part of the president’s surge, should be arriving this week or early next. An assignment to Afghanistan obviously isn’t much of a Christmas present.
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Passengers get a break from airlines, cabs become wheelchair-friendly, Balloon Boy’s parents can’t profit from hoax, and a future king follows in his philanthropist mother’s footstepsSci-fi therapy1|Face transplants for injured veterans fast-tracked by Pentagon
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Good luck trying to understand the financial reform bill that the House is debating this week. The extremely complex piece of legislation, which could be altered by any of hundreds of proposed amendments, is intended to prevent another financial meltdown. If history is any guide, eventually it will fail.
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