Bacon's Rebellion

The Wonk Salon: April 22, 2011

Nearly 5,000 Criminal Aliens in Virginia Prisons and Jails
Government Accountability Office

Of the estimated 10.8 million illegal aliens in the United States, 350,000 are held in federal, state and local prisons and jails. Virginia ranks 11th in the nation for criminal alien population. (Would someone please explain the roughly 7,000 German illegals in U.S. jails?)

Everybody Wins But Wall Street
Demos
Yank state deposits out of Wall Street banks and use them to set up “main street partnership banks” that bankroll community businesses instead of synthetic mortgages, derivatives and other weapons of financial destruction.

BPA Do-Gooders Jeopardize Public Health
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Maryland is the latest state to restrict Bisphenol A (BPA) from baby product packaging on the grounds. But there is no ready substitute for the chemical that wards off pathogens. The BPA ban could prove detrimental, not helpful, to babies.

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