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WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders and the Bush administration have reached a tentative deal on a bailout of imperiled financial markets that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. The bill, perhaps to be voted on by the House as soon as today, includes pay limits for executives whose firms seek help, aides said.

Reason magazine has published the letter below in its March issue. This letter is in response to Cathy Young's article in the December issue: http://www.reason.com/0312/co.cy.divorcees.shtml . They also published, in the February issue, an article on paternity fraud, "Injustice by Default: How the effort to catch 'deadbeat dads' ruins innocent men's lives," by Matt Welch: http://www.reason.com/0402/fe.mw.injustice.shtml . This article does not question the claim that there is a serious problem of "real" deadbeat dads. My more extended response to Young was published in LewRockwell.com (a site with over 24 million hits monthly) in December: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/baskerville3.html . Reason seems to realize...

Open-Air Nuthouse I've said before that our poor country sometimes resembles an open-air insane asylum. Alas, here are two more pieces of evidence to support that assertion: 1. New York City has decided to fund a high school strictly for homosexuals. 2. The Pentagon planned to set up a "futures market" in which investors could speculate on such things as terrorist acts, assassinations and the overthrow of governments. As Jack Paar used to say, "I kid you not." Fortunately, enough people in Congress were outraged by this latest wacky idea from the Pentagon that the fearless bureaucrats have backed off....