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links for 2008-04-29

• Fear and loathing at CFIUS - Joshua Treviño, Wall Street Journal Asia

  Japan isn’t the only place flexing its regulatory oversight of foreigners these days. Now, the U.S Treasury Department wants to look at transactions involving stakes of less than 10% of the acquired American company.

  (tags: economy business government)

• Transplant recipients raise donor awareness, funds - Alicia Doyle, Ventura County Star

  A semi-pro football player in his younger years, Tom Henry of Ventura continued his athletic pursuits after receiving a kidney transplant at UCLA Medical Center in March 1994.

  (tags: bluey)

• Supreme Court gets it right with voter photo ID ruling - Editorial, Washington Examiner

  Constitutional law degrees aren’t necessary when mere common sense is sufficient to conclude, as did the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, that an Indiana law requiring a photo ID to vote “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting ‘the inte

  (tags: voter_id scotus)

• Friends of the Earmark Make Themselves Heard - Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post

  The hottest document on Capitol Hill is an anonymous six-page white paper that defends, of all things, earmarks — those much-maligned home-state projects that lawmakers shoehorn into spending bills.

  (tags: earmarks congress)