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...guru Bill Gross of Pimco wrote a foreboding investment outlook, pointing out that hedge funds tied up in trading are the top layer of the problem, not the root. That can be demonstrated in the Mile High City and, as Gross wrote, "in the Summerlin suburbs of Las Vegas, Nevada, and in the extended city limits of Chicago headed west towards Rockford, and yes, the naked (and empty) rows of multistoried condos in Miami, Florida." It's a big problem. How big, we're still waiting to find...
...pork (such as a notorious $459 million flood-control scheme for Dallas, a study of a $3 billion dam on the Susitna River that Representative Don Young wants in Alaska, or the seven water and sewage treatment projects that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tucked into the bill for Nevada.) The Senate considered an amendment that would have required prioritization of Corps projects according to national need, but it was overwhelmingly rejected. That's because the Corps is essentially a Congressional agency, and Corps projects are a form of currency on Capitol Hill; members use them to steer jobs...
...DeMint and Coburn are unhappy with a rule that would allow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and his committee chairmen - rather than the body?s parliamentarian - to determine whether earmark disclosure rules have been complied with. It's a technical point, admits DeMint, but a key one. "One of the reasons Americans have such a low opinion of Congress is that we pretend to do things that we don't actually do, and here we are just pretending to pass real reform," he said. "The [majority] leader can just say that no new earmarks have been added...
...They take their citizenship seriously. While knocking on people’s doors I have been offered reading lists, documentary titles, and sophisticated political analysis, not to mention lemonade, cookies, and even a hamburger. And I would predict the same treatment in other early states, such as Iowa or Nevada...
...speaks in absolutes--God calls believers to tend to the unfortunate, however they got to the U.S.--but so do pro-lifers and anti-death-penalty activists. "I think it's an issue where churches can take the lead," says Bishop Beverly Shamana of the United Methodist California-Nevada Conference. "We are taught to follow Jesus and risk transformation--and risk changing the status...