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Critics Shrugged: Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the Movie, is Getting a Lot of Rotten Tomatoes at the Rotten Tomatoes Website

Some early buzz (see here) had me hopeful about Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the movie, but, alas, as of this afternoon, not a single critic—including Roger Ebert—has given the movie a good review at the Rotten Tomatoes website. Eleven have been posted so … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Carpatho-Ukrainian Jews at the “Judenramp” (Receiving Area) Await Selection for Labor or Immediate Extermination, Auschwitz-Birkenau, May, 1944

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Get Big Rigs off the Road?: Railroad Infrastructure and Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan

An interesting article, in Washington Monthly, on why rail investment should be part of the Obama economic stimulus plan, is here. Money quote: [A] study sponsored by the Virginia DOT finds that a cumulative investment over ten to twelve years … Continue reading

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