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...Democrats are predictably skeptical of the party's recent "spend wisely" hosannas. "It's a miracle," says Wisconsin Rep. David Obey, sarcastically. "It's a St. Paul conversion on the road to Damascus." Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, was the architect of a plan to keep earmarks secret until the appropriations bills passed both houses, at which point they would be all but impossible to remove individually via votes on the house floor, as traditionally has been the case. Republicans were outraged at the maneuver and, sensing an opportunity, called out their opponents for a lack of transparency...
...problem, says Justice John Paul Stevens, joined by Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent, is that the Roberts opinion not only provides support for such a restriction, it invents "out of whole cloth a special First Amendment rule permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs." Stevens is fine with a rule that prohibits students from promoting illegal drugs. But no matter what the principal argued in this case, the bong-hits banner conveyed "nonsense," speech "that was never meant to persuade anyone to do anything...
...School Committee roundtable on the enrollment decline last year, Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn and Cambridge Teachers Association President Paul Toner both pointed to the cost of housing as the principle cause of the enrollment decline, and in an interview in March 2006 school district spokesman Justin T. Martin claimed that "the main cause from all the information that we've seen has been the rising cost of housing in Cambridge...
...received national attention. The Washington Post wrote that the "notion of party consistency makes eminent sense. In states that do not have such restrictions, governors sometimes choose replacements from their own party rather than from the party of the previous Senator." Notably, in 2002, after Democratic Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, Independent Party Gov. Jesse Ventura replaced him with fellow Independent Party member, Dean Barkley...
BANK OF THE SOUTH First the Paul Wolfowitz scandal, and now this: at the end of the month, "Banco del Sur" will launch as a direct competitor to the World Bank, at least in South America. The brainchild of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who has long railed against the meddling of the Washington-dominated World Bank and IMF, the development bank got a credibility boost when Brazil, Argentina and others signed on as founding members. With the region's new oil wealth, the dream of locally funding big infrastructure projects without First World interference may be closer than ever...