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Positioned all by herself at the free-throw line, Caitlin Clark with her foul shots made her way to the top of the NCAA Division 1 scoring board. Her team, No. 6 Iowa, won against No. 2 Ohio State with a score of 93-83, all thanks to her two free throws on a technical penalty. Clark undoubtedly surpassed the previous 54-year-old record held by Pete Maravich. Clark needed to score eighteen points to beat Maravich’s record of 3,667 points, which the player accumulated in a total of 83 games. She made history by gaining 3,685 points in her 130 games. Caitlin...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to incorporate macroeconomic projections into cost estimates for major legislation, a move that critics say could hide the true budgetary effects of tax cuts. The move toward "dynamic scoring" is part of a package of new rules that passed on a 234-172 party-line vote as the new Republican-controlled Congress started its work.

John Harwood, CNBC Washington DC correspondent and Obama-worshipper, just breathlessly reported that the CBO has reported scoring the Max Baucus Healthcare Reform plan at costing some $821 billion over 10 years. This is less than previous bills and CBO reports, so Harwood and his fellow-traveler Dems are apparently ecstatic.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Two Iowa football fans were caught having sex in a bathroom stall at the Metrodome during Saturday’s Minnesota-Iowa game. According to a police report, a Metrodome security officer saw two people having sex in a handicapped stall after noticing two sets of feet with underwear dropped to the ground. A group of 15 onlookers were gawking at the scene by the time officers broke the couple up and wrote them misdemeanor citations. The woman, 38, was turned over to her husband. The man, 26, was turned over to his girlfriend.

I recently had the need to purchase a new shower head. The local Lowe's only carried ones produced in China. I sucked it up and bought one. It leaked when installed as did the replacement, but I was able to correct the faulty replacement after a bit of work. Today I was at the local Ace Hardware store. That business had shower heads manfactured in America. I purchased one and installed it. It didn't leak. Ace Hardware also had a 3" trimming plane manfactured in the United States. I didn't need it but I bought it along with a tile...

The Office of Tax Analysis of the U. S. Department of the Treasury has performed an analysis of the recommendations of the president's commission on fundamental tax reform. The report details findings of OTA regarding each of the two reform proposals by the commission, plus analysis of a third option: a personal consumption tax (PCT). Which plan produces the highest growth in capital and in income? The PCT, of course. This study uses dynamic scoring, which is good. But the study would have been even better if it had analysed the Fair Tax, which has substantial support in Congress, particularly...

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders and a former Bush Cabinet member said Tuesday that schools should stop excluding large numbers of minority students' test scores when they report progress under the No Child Left Behind law. The Associated Press reported Monday that schools have gotten federal permission to deliberately not count the test scores of nearly 2 million students when they report academic progress by race as required by the law. The scores excluded were overwhelmingly from minorities, the AP found. Some leaders said Congress may need to intervene. The Education Department and others owe the public an explanation, said the...

Republicans are pushing to rewrite budget rules in an attempt to remove financial obstacles that threaten the GOP’s effort to reform Social Security. The potential move to craft budget language that would direct the Congressional Budget Office to score Social Security reform legislation over 30 or more years would likely increase the chances that the bill would pass in the 109th Congress. Republicans could also write budget provisions that would remove the program entirely from the budget process.Reshaping Social Security, deemed the third rail of politics, has long been viewed as an almost impossible task. But with the deficit projected...