Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Japanese Emperor Makes Rare Public Statement: "Don't Give Up Hope" BUSINESS Obama Administration's Plan To Punish Banks POLITICS Haley Barbour Breaks From The GOP Pack MEDIA Limbaugh Mocks Japan Refugees WORLD Bahrain Forces Attack Protesters TECHNOLOGY House Panel Moves Forward To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules BLOG POSTS Robert Reich: Safety on the Cheap Profit-making corporations have every incentive to underestimate the probabilities of potential disasters and lowball the likely externalized harms. This is why it's necessary to have such things as government regulators. Jalen Rose: Paid College Athletes: A Reasonable Compromise Despite the fact very few student athletes ever have the opportunity to turn professional, the overwhelming time commitment leaves them with no way of generating any income. Here is a reasonable solution. Caren Z. Turner: Trim Belly Fat Instantly! (Political Belly Fat, That Is) There are hundreds of federal programs already identified across every government agency that overlap or are duplicative, wasting taxpayer dollars each year. Just eliminating these redundancies would save billions. Kristin Wartman: Breakfast Is Not So Gr-r-reat When Your Only Option Is Frosted Flakes Kellogg and other industry giants should do something about the hunger problem, but they shouldn't be filling already undernourished children with food that is nutritionally void at best. Salam Al Marayati: Blasphemy Laws Are Against Islam The concept of Defamation of Religions denies a person their free will to choose -- one of God's greatest gifts to humanity -- and deprives individuals of their right to free speech and expression.

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