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...Senate is now trying to work into law a provision that would give people a $15,000 tax credit for buying a new home. This would substantially expand the cost of the bailout, if people are willing to take advantage of it. The average American who still bothers to read a newspaper is acutely aware that most signs point to a housing market which is still spiraling down, no matter what pending home sales numbers say. All of the "For Sale" signs in most neighborhoods and auctions of foreclosed properties are a sure indication that housing supply is still extremely...
...prison—currently, 74 people in the U.S. are serving life sentences without possibility of parole for crimes committed when they were 13 or 14 years old. While the Supreme Court’s recent banning of capital punishment for adolescents is commendable, the court must expand this judicial review to non-capital cases to ensure that all individuals convicted of a crime, especially adolescents, receive appropriate punishments...
...replace Tom Daschle. But while several may have the qualifications to run the HHS bureaucracy, the real question is whether anyone can replace Daschle when it comes to the harder task of keeping on track President Obama's drive this year to overhaul the health-care system and expand coverage to the 47 million Americans who now lack it. (Read "Did Daschle Bow Out Too Soon, or Was It Inevitable...
...Castrillón is a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist. He was named by Pope John Paul II as the go-between in relations with fringe traditionalist groups like the Lefebvrites, whose official name is the Society of St. Pius X. Castrillón pushed hard for Benedict to expand the use of Latin-rite Mass, which the Pontiff did in 2007. Four years earlier, Castrillón had presided over the first officially sanctioned Latin-rite Mass in Rome since the Second Vatican Council, held at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The following year, it is worth noting...
...Dulac also expressed concern that the move could hamper plans to expand the Center for Systems Biology and the Center for Brain Science, currently situated in the Northwest building...