Word: catoe
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...MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only 5,000 of the 18,000 “alcohol-related” fatalities involved a drunk driver killing a sober individual...
...party choir (literally in some cases) on issues like God, guns and gays. He has advocated for - and won - a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He has kept taxes low, attracted record numbers of new jobs to the state, and rammed through tort reform. In September, the conservative Cato Institute ranked him as No. 2 governor in the nation on fiscal responsibility - "a better governor," they said, than Bush...
...clean our offices--for pay that lets us keep our own wallets plumper. Moreover, their domestic labor gives their employers more time to put into higher-paying work and leisure time. A vibrant laborer population could even create white-collar jobs, says Daniel Griswold, an immigration expert for the Cato Institute--say, for hotel managers hired to oversee expanding staffs. "Immigrant workers," he says, "make the economy more flexible, more dynamic...
...Substance Abuse are "not a reliable estimate." The survey describes a near doubling of prescription-drug abuse from 1992 to 2003, but because of changes in the way federal statistics were gathered in the past decade, no such claim can be made, the spokesman said. Last month the libertarian Cato Institute issued a report, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers, charging that the agency exaggerated reports of OxyContin deaths and overdoses. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen, which can lead to intestinal bleeding, cause 35 times more deaths a year than...
...Sources: Cato Institute (2); Washington Post (2); Pew Hispanic Center (2); New York Times...