Over the Edge for Special Olympics!

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First, this looks like ALOT of fun. Second, this is a bipartisan effort to help raise money for Special Olympics Delaware. Third, hit the link to help these Osienski and Lavelle raise money. And fourth, I'm just going to post the entire Press Release so you have all of the details:

Things That Hurt George W. Bush’s Feelings

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- Not getting enough credit for catching Osama Bin Laden. - Not getting enough credit for the June 6th, 1944 invasion of Normandy . - Not getting enough credit for Yale's 1967 defeat of Harvard even though he "cheered his heart out for that one." -Not getting any credit for all the people he didn't kill while drunk driving from 1969-1989. - Being called "Jeb's Slow Brother" his entire life until being elected President. - Two girls were whispering at the mall that time ...probably about him, although not 100% sure, but still, you know...it made him "feel yucky inside."

The Cost of Tax Breaks for Jobs

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Via the Star-Ledger, we find that a NJ think tank -- New Jersey Policy Perspective -- has taken a hard look at the massive subsidies being funneled to private businesses in NJ and found that there aren't many jobs associated with all of that money.  In the past two years, NJ has given out $822M in tax subsidies: