Random Linkage 2008-Oct-02 PM
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008- The original 3-page financial bailout package proposal has grown to a 450 page pork-projects “Rescue” bill just to get through the Senate
The economic rescue bill advanced by the Senate last night is a huge step in the right direction. Too bad it had so many special-interest barnacles attached.
- Foreign financial markets may view the American economic crisis as an opening to taking the lead away from Wall Street
And Dubai, riding the Middle East’s oil-fired boom, has declared itself the center of Islamic finance and says it aims, in the words of Dubai’s government, to “develop the same stature as New York.”
- U.S. Supreme Court will not reconsider its June ruling that child rape case death penalty sentencing is unconstitutional
The military law that “retains the death penalty for rape of a child or an adult when committed by a member of the military does not draw into question our conclusions that there is a consensus against the death penalty for the crime in the civilian context and that the penalty here is unconstitutional,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, author of the original decision.
- Congress pushes back to death-to-net-radio royalty deadline to give both sides additional time to work out new rates
- Science news for kids
