CAP

NHL Salary Cap to Rise to $44 Million

The NHL salary cap will be about $44 million next season, an increase of $5 million per team, after league revenues were higher than expected in the first year following the season-long lockout.

Anatomy of a Search: What happened to Steve Fossett ?

Source: Air and Space Magazine Michael Behar

Why the U.S. Civil Air Patrol couldn't find Steve Fossett.

Obama calls for pollution cap-and-trade program - MarketWatch

Source: MarketWatch.com

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Monday said that if elected he would establish an economy-wide cap-and-trade program that would sharply cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.

Hillary ClintonTakes Credit for Media Matters at Yearly Kos

Source: Politico

She thanked them, in part, for "really putting together a network in the blogosphere and a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support, like Media Matters and the Center for American Progress."

The "not rearing pigs" business

Source: Space.com

An open letter by an English pig farmer (or is he?) to the UK's secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Another demonstration of the ludicrous nature of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

(Image) Captain America.... Lives?

Source: img338.imageshack.us

Looks like a high resolution scan of the comic book itself or a proof. Anyone following this more closely than I care to comment?

Congress tries again to hit CEO pay. Watch out, middle class.

Source: OpinionJournal.com

Here we go again. This week Democrats are partying like it's 1993 in the Senate, where they are about to fire what promises to be only the first salvo in their latest war on "excessive" CEO pay.

Obama Will try and Cap amount of troops in Iraq

Before Obama followers start to get angry at me, I just want to say I have nothing against Obama, and to tell you the truth I have not even looked into him politically that much.

amazing vanishing magic trick-revealed

Source: Revver

learn here an amazing magic trick to vanish an object. it's very easy. u can try it on any one anywhere. it is easy and u don't need any practice. but remember the magic is relly very amazing.

Company sells $2000 baseball cap (and you thought gas was getting expensive)

Source: Vyuz

Yep, that's right. It had to happen eventually. With gas at $3.20 a gallon, and blue jeans at $800 a pair, it was just a matter of time before ball cap prices crept up over $1000.

Kennedy To Quit Owl Club in a CYA Move

Source: hubpolitics.com

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who ripped Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for ties to a group that discriminates against women — says he's going to quit a club notorious for discriminating against women "as fast as I can."

Inside "Concerned Alumni of Princeton"

Source: Campaign Standard

"Sitting in the press section in Hart 226, mere feet away from the table where Sam Alito was insistently queried about CAP, I reflected on the oddity that I knew far more about CAP than Alito and his interrogators. Once upon a time, I drew a paycheck from CAP.

Kennedy 'mindlessly reciting' CAP Satire article during Hearings

Source: Power Line

Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:

Confirmation Report - Sam's Club—Why Alito's membership in CAP matters. By Dahlia Lithwick

Source: Slate

Dahlia tries to convince us that Alito's membership in CAP is a point of vital importance.