Dogs haven't quite become man's best friend in China, but at least man will stop being dogs' worst enemy for a time:
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Congressional approval ratings have dropped into the single digits. Taxpayers for Common Sense might have one of the reasons with its Top 10 resolutions of the 110th Congress. My favorite:
Expressing support for designation of a "National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day."
And a close second is the expression of support for the designation of National Corvette Day. What tough work they do.
If you're just an average motorist who lets a couple of traffic citations pile up, the authorities would hound you to death. But if you're a railroad that racks up more than 1,500 tickets for blocking city streets, that's a different story:
Until Tuesday, 1,551 tickets issued to Norfolk Southern since at least 2004 had remained unprosecuted by the Lake County prosecutor's office.
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I'm sorry to tell you that your life is worth only $5.9 million, a drop of nearly $1 million from five years ago. And that drop has real consequences:
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
Another cause of global warming is . . . wait for it . . . clean air!
GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.
Congress is grilling members of Indiana's RV-manufacturing community about all those toxic trailers:
A contractor hired by Forest River in 2006 told the company that formaldehyde levels in one trailer was so high that Forest River should post signs saying “hazardous - do not enter.”
What's going on here?
A. The government didn't exercise proper control, so it's the fault of the feds.
This seems like a sensible policy, but how is it going to be enforced? Will it be on the honor system, or will there be spot checks of the odometers? "Monitored very closely" could mean almost anything and usually begins to slip after awhile:
Gambling has long been thought to be a recession-proof enterprise. Maybe not:
For the first six months of this year, money spent at Indiana casinos generated $465.6 million in tax revenue, down from $488.6 million for the same period a year ago.
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Hope Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can get right on this before Barack Obama's election puts them out of the race-hustling business:
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Hollywood in turmoil! There's a conspiracy! Donald Sutherland, writing at the Huffington Post on how the Clintonites are messing with Barack's head:
