Based on evidence, the stimulus worked

As others have, and more will as the presidential election heats up, David Frum went after the Recovery Act on these pages. I'll address his critiques in a moment, but first let's just get this right out there: Though we can never know alternative histories -- in this case, how the economy would have performed absent the stimulus -- the weight of the evidence is that the Recovery Act did what we expected it to do.

Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/mmtsDV9HpzA/index.html

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Phila. Police Enlist Private Cameras To Capture Crime

The police department is encouraging residents and businesses to register their security cameras in a new program called SafeCam. The department is creating a database of cameras so police know where to look for footage that may have caught a crime on tape.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140089176/phila-police-enlist-private-cameras-to-capture-crime?ft=1&f=1003

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New Republic: Our Brave Ambassador to Damascus

Robert Ford, the ambassador to Syria, is bold. He handles his position with respect and force ? and his bravery is admirable. John Limbert of the New Republic believes Congress could take a lesson from this leader.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140081346/new-republic-our-brave-ambassador-to-damascus?ft=1&f=1057

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Justice's New War Against Lenders

Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal
Talk about not learning from past mistakes: A government department is again intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates, all in the name of combating "discrimination." Welcome to the next housing mess.The 1990s may have brought us supercharged politicized lending, but Eric Holder's Department of Justice is taking the game to an entirely new level, and then some. The weapon is a "fair lending" unit created in early 2010, led by special counsel Eric Halperin and overseen by Civil Rights Division head Thomas Perez.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/31/justice039s_new_war_against_lenders_262586.html

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Tube Burgers: The World Of In Vitro Meat

Would you eat a steak grown in a laboratory? Science writer Michael Specter examines the progress scientists have made in developing test-tube meat. "Depending on what your definition of any sort of life is, this is as fundamental as any animal is," he says.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat?ft=1&f=1007

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Foreign Policy: Flying First Class On Gadhafi Air

A glimspe of bizarre luxury ? and freedom ? aboard Gadhafi's private plane, with its Texas-made silverware and mirror over the bed. Sarah A. Topol of Foreign Policy shares the story of her and a Libyan friend exploring the fallen leader's belongings.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140054420/foreign-policy-flying-first-class-on-gadhafi-air?ft=1&f=1057

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Obama's Economic-Policy Last Chance

Tony Blankley, Washington Times
President Obama's post-Labor Day "jobs" speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect - both economic and political - before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood, they are: a timid hodgepodge of previous proposals, a bold left-of-center initiative or a turn to a free-market “nuclear option.”It’s that nuclear option that is the most fascinating (and most unlikely). He could decide to embrace all the major Republican, Tea Party free-market ideas -...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/31/obamas_economic-policy_last_chance_111135.html

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