Friday, March 14, 2014

Goodman’s Law: If You Tax Something You Will Get Less of It

From 2001 to 2011, the number of nonprofits in the United States grew 25 percent while the number of for-profit businesses rose by half of 1 percent, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Urban Institute. There are still considerably more businesses than nonprofits, of course, about four times as many. But over […]



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Visiting Cuba: What you need to know - The Plain Dealer









Visiting Cuba: What you need to know

The Plain Dealer

Permission to visit: Even though Cuba is physically close to United States, it's difficult to travel there because of the U.S. economic sanctions and travel restrictions that have been in place since the early 1960s. To travel there legally as an ...









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Matanzas sweeps Industriales 4-3





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Does ObamaCare Deserve The Credit (or Blame) For Rising Deductibles?

Galen Benshoof, a guest blogger at The Incidental Economist, writes that rising deductibles are not entirely a consequence of ObamaCare, but also the rise of Health Savings Accounts and associated high-deductible, consumer-driven health plans over the last decade. However, Benshoof’s description of the effect of consumer-driven health plans suffers from misunderstanding: In the 1990s, some […]



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Cuba shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reports to Los Angeles Dodgers - Times Colonist (blog)









Cuba shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reports to Los Angeles Dodgers

Times Colonist (blog)

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reported to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, nearly three weeks after agreeing to a $25 million, five-year contract. "I've thought about this for a year," Arruebarrena said through an interpreter.









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Afirma el INDER que comunicará en breve su fallo sobre la apelación del lanzador Freddy Asiel Álvarez

Varios aficionados nos escribieron o llamaron diciéndonos que la decisión en cuanto a la apelación de la sanción del lanzador Freddy Asiel tras el bochornoso incidente del pasado 17 de febrero, en el juego 417 de la actual temporada entre Matanzas y Villa Clara, ya había sido comunicada y que se mantenía la suspensión por toda la temporada.



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Zuckerberg llama a Obama para quejarse por el espionaje de la NSA

El fundador de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, publicó una nota contando una llamada telefónica que mantuvo con el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, en la que le manifestó que su Gobierno está socavando la confianza en Internet. Los comentarios tienen lugar un día después de la publicación de un informe que sostiene que la NSA suplantó a un servidor de Facebook para inyectar un software malicioso a las computadoras con el objetivo de expandir su capacidad para recoger información.



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