Couldn’t Help But Notice (032808)
Nominee for most underreported story of the week (HT LGF):
Colombia said it seized at least 66 pounds (30 kg) of uranium from the country’s biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the four-decade-old guerrilla war.
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AFP reports that “Human Rights Campaigner” (yeah, that’s what they called him; HT Hot Air) Mumia Abu-Jamal temporarily dodged being executed for the murder of “a police officer” in 1981.
Memo to AFP — The police officer had a name: Daniel Faulkner.
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The trend of people voting with their feet continues. Midwestern urban areas lost residents yet again in the latest Census Bureau update. AP, of course, doesn’t fully explain why the population gainers are who they are:
Experts credit much of the growth in the South to relatively strong local economies and housing prices that are among the most affordable in the U.S.
“People are running away from unaffordable housing, from the economic slowdown,” said Karl Eschbach, a state demographer in Texas. “I would expect Texas to stay at the top of a slowing game.”
But why are the local economies strong, and the areas relatively affordable? Lower taxes, less regulation, and relatively low crime rates.
