Three economists — including one rejected by the Senate as too inexperienced to work at the Federal Reserve — have won the Nobel prize in economics for their work in explaining why markets sometimes don’t work so well. The problem with unemployment is that, theoretically, it shouldn’t exist. Efficient market theory says unemployed workers should always be able to find a job if they just lower their standards enough, just as all employers should be able to find workers if they just lower theirs. By this theory, all unemployment is voluntary. (Maybe it would be in a free market.)

"Police in Upper Moreland Township said 75 percent of their auto burglaries since 2008 happened in unlocked cars. Township officials are now considering fining people who leave their cars unlocked in public areas."

Right through the back door, while everyone was focused on the gulf oil spill, Barack Obama gave his signature to legislation permitting the U.S. Government to outlaw supplements and alternative health treatments.

That means that the supplements you take and therapies you use to keep your body healthy, can now be made illegal by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The idea that democracy works better when informed people vote would seem to make sense. However, the case for informed voting breaks down when we consider the difficulties of being well-informed about political options.

The head of the agency charged with enforcing Delaware’s alcohol laws has resigned after being arrested for drunken driving.

More Nazi tactics by joint task force thugs in un-marked helicopters and uniforms.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ Cops Raid Middle School Looking for Weed, Find Tomatoes...

Some parents, who did not want to be named, said they, too, were concerned about the raid on their children's school.

Pantano said she did not want to make too big an issue out of the raid, but questioned why such a commotion was necessary when anyone who asked would have been given a tour of the greenhouses.

BE IT REMEMBERED, this date, the Court having ordered all present in the courtroom to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience, and having found that Danny Lampley, Attorney at Law, failed and refused to do so, finds said Danny Lampley to be in criminal contempt of court.

Investigators who set up a sting operation Monday had hoped to snare two corrupt Philadelphia police officers suspected of robbing drug dealers - just not the two who fell into the trap. These disclosures raise the possibility that as many as four 25th District officers have been robbing couriers, stealing cash and giving the drugs to another dealer to sell, sources said. "I don't know how deep this runs," Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said in an interview Thursday. "We've got a lot of work to do."

Authorities said Friday they arrested a small-town police officer in a series of apparently random shootings along the Illinois-Indiana border that left one man dead and another two wounded. The case has unnerved residents in the rural towns since the shootings began earlier this week.

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