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• Five years in prison, $50,000 fine

  The ban on compensation for human transplants goes back to 1983 legislation, according to the preface of When Altruism Isn't Enough. It was apparently a reaction to a doctor-entrepreneur who planned to bring poor folks to the U.S. for paid kidney donations. Strangely, it didn't really hit home [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 1:06am EST
  

• When Altruism Isn't Enough: book review

  So the rant blog re-emerges for a slow-motion book review. I am beginning When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors.
  
  Why? I'm on the Board of Directors of Iowa Donor Network, the agency that collects and distributes donated organs in Iowa. IDN succeeds [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  

• An Evening at the Caucus

  Our caucus was held in our nine-year old's school cafeteria. It was reasonably well-organized. I helped count the votes, and we were out before the neighboring caucus, held in the school gym, had even finished their count.
  
  Mitt Romney was the big winner in my precinct, taking 74 out [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 8:20pm EST
  

• #114 Republican resultsHUK 55, ROM 74, MCC ...

  #114 Republican results
  HUK 55, ROM 74, MCC 59, THO 25, RUDY15, PAUL 16, HUNTER 1 caucus count [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 8:11pm EST
  

• Now they're passing out ballots - I ...

  Now they're passing out ballots - I will be a counter. [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 7:28pm EST
  

• I don't know why they bother with ...

  I don't know why they bother with the speeches. If you are motivated to squander your evening here, you know who you're voting for. 241 people [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 7:26pm EST
  

• Now we're listening to speakers from of ...

  Now we're listening to speakers from of the candidates. My wife had to register republican to vote here, and it pains her greatly. [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 7:22pm EST
  

• Liveblogging my caucus. I'm firing up the ...

  Liveblogging my caucus. I'm firing up the long dormant blog to liveblog my caucus. Our precinct, West Des Moines 114, has a big turnout and st [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 7:19pm EST
  

• Who says Des Moines Register editorials aren't influential?

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  The Des Moines Register has declared bottled water an environmental menace. I responded to their stirring cry by immediately making a trip to Sam's Club:
  
  
  
  They'll take my bottled water when they peel my cold, dead, well-hydrated fingers from it.
  
  I'm not [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2007, 5:20am EDT
  by Joe

• 200-1 gets you 15-85

  You have to hand it to our local chamber of commerce. The Greater Des Moines Partnership, with the backing of the biggest companies in town and a $770,000 war chest - 200 times that of the opposition - managed to convince about one voter in seven to vote for [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2007, 9:39pm EDT
  by Joe

• Project Destiny Vote is Today!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Destiny: the trap range, I hope.
  
  UPDATE, 8:50 p.m.: Dust off the Browning!
  
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  Posted: July 10, 2007, 6:50am EDT
  by Joe

• Project Destiny Viral Marketing #3

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  Dan Albritton, local labor official, friend of Ramona, and member of the Prairie Meadows board, has been indicted on conspiracy charges related to CIETC. Mr. Albritton is innocent until proven guilty, but just to be safe, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent when asked to [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2007, 9:35pm EDT
  by Joe

• Steadfast for skedaddle

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  The Democrats who now run Congress - many of whom voted to go to war in Iraq, including Senator Harkin - now want to run away and turn over that country to Al-queda. So how does the Des Moines Register describe this behavior on today's front page?
  
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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 9:43am EDT
  by Joe

• Project Destiny Viral Marketing 2.0

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  The blogosphere has not taken up the Project Destiny Viral Marketing Initiative with the gusto we would have expected/ To move this noble cause along, then, another contribution is in order:
  
  
  
  Featuring Tom "Rubber Stamp" Vlassis. As a city councilman, Mr. Vlassis [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2007, 7:57pm EDT
  by Joe

• The Project Destiny Viral Marketing Initiative

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  Project Destiny, the initiative to give Central Iowa the higher sales tax everyone is clamoring to pay, seems to be spending its money at an alarming rate. The Des Moines Register has reported that $118,000 of its first $245,000 in corporate donations had already gone into the pockets of [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2007, 5:19am EST
  by Joe

• Adam Smith, call your office

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  "Jane's Law" holds that the party in power - whichever party - is smug and arrogant, while the party out of power is insane. Since winning control of the legislature, Iowa's Democrats are struggling with the transition.
  
  How so? Consider newly-introduced SF 182. The bill explanation says [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2007, 7:21am EST
  by Joe

• Slowest book review ever

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  Last summer I was live-blogging Arnold Kling's book "Crisis of Abundance." The project ground to a halt when I lost my copy (long but incoherent and embarrassing story omitted); As a Christmas present to myself, I got another copy, so the posts now resume.
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  Posted: January 11, 2007, 7:46pm EST
  by Joe

• MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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  From Tom Vilsack! What a nice surprise:
  
  

  
  Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack’s suggestion that ‘‘no one in their right mind’’ would fund an indoor rain forest in Iowa came as a surprise to the project’s supporters who previously counted on his support.

  
  
  Sure, now that he has [...]
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  Posted: December 22, 2006, 12:08am EST
  by Joe