Things the Nobel Committee Doesn’t Want You to Know
Poor Al Gore. He's been in a downward spiral all year long. First, he received an Oscar for his documentary (or was it a "mockumentary"?), An Inconvenient Truth, from the out-of-touch motion picture industry. Then he received an International Emmy from the out-of-touch television industry - the international branch, no ...
What’s Wrong With the Term “Trekkie,” Anyway?
National Review Online is running a delightful Star Trek feature this weeked. No conservative Star Trek fan should miss it. But I do wonder how James Lileks can not know the correct title of the ST:TOS episode guest-starring Joan Collins is "The City on the Edge of Forever." ...
Inviting Government into the Living Room
David Leonhardt, a male New York Times economics columnist, sees men on the sofa while women are working, and concludes the answer is universal preschool and federally-mandated paid leave for new parents. Leave it to the New York Times to try to federalize the problem of lazy spouses. Is there ...
Celebrating America’s Heritage Act Wins in House Committee in Mostly Party Line Vote
An update on this week's action by the House Resources Committee on the Celebrating America's Heritage Act, a step toward federal zoning (with pork attached). Peyton Knight contributes this update: On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Celebrating America's Heritage Act, 23 - 12, on a mostly party ...
Black Group Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Hear Voter ID Case: “We Have a Right to a Process that is Free of Fraud and Corruption”
Calling voting "one of the most fundamental rights we have," members of the Project 21 black leadership network are calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to provide a clear and unmistakable ruling on the constitutionality of states requiring voters to show photo identification at polls before the 2008 general elections ...
Gore Tells Bush to be More Reaganesque
Peyton Knight approves of some of Al Gore’s advice to President Bush: At former President Clinton's annual "Global Clinton Initiative" summit Thursday, Al Gore called on President Bush to be more like the Gipper. Gore said: I... call on President Bush to follow President Reagan's example and listen to those ...
Congress’ SCHIP Deception
When it comes to SCHIP, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is shocked by the behavior of certain Republicans: The Beltway political class is shocked that President Bush and his dwindling Republican allies are opposing the Democratic expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. That consensus, as usual, has ...
John Berthoud: He Will Be Missed
I don't want to post anything else on the blog this evening until I note with sadness the death of John Berthoud. John's death was announced earlier today by the National Taxpayers Union, which John led for the last 11 years. I did not know John well, but I knew ...
Reverse Robin Hood: Congress’ Regressive SCHIP Expansion Would Tax Poor to Fund Health Insurance for Middle and Upper-Middle Class
Washington, D.C. - A successful effort by Congress to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $35 billion over five years over White House protests would require low-income Americans to subsidize health insurance for children and young adults in the middle and upper-middle classes, says a September 2007 ...
Pushing Pork
Rep. Raul Grijalva's "Celebrating America's Heritage Act," which would better have been titled "In Praise of Pork," will be voted on Wednesday in the House Resources Committee. Our press release: Congressional Self-Dealing Alive and Well Legislation that Would Enrich Select Special Interest Groups to be Voted on This Week Contact: ...
National Review Institute Hosts Energy Policy Debate
Peyton Knight contributes coverage of an energy policy and global warming debate sponsored earlier today in Washington by the National Review Institute: This afternoon, the National Review Institute hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club on energy production and how it relates to national security. The panel was ...
Congressional Self-Dealing Alive and Well — Legislation that Would Enrich Select Special Interest Groups to be Voted on This Week
Washington, D.C. - This Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee will vote on a bill that would funnel over $135 million of federal pork to special interest groups in select members' districts. The "Celebrating America's Heritage Act," put forth by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), would create six new national heritage ...
Government Says Yes Then Says No
The District of Columbia government halts the building of a new cellular phone tower seven months into its construction, despite having issued permits permitting construction, thereby costing its builder $250 million in various expenses and leaving area residents without adequate cellular service. Government Approves Building Permit, Then Outlaws Construction Residents ...
“Above Normal” Hurricane Forecast is in a Race Against the Clock
...and the clock is winning. With more than 62% of the Atlantic hurricane season behind us and less than 38% of it left, it's now a race against the clock for the 2007 hurricane season to be "above normal," as forecast. The clock is winning and the score is 4 ...
Black Group Demands Prompt Senate Consideration for Mukasey
With the nomination of retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to become the next attorney general, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are demanding liberal senators not hijack the confirmation process as a means of advancing partisan attacks on the White House. "By engaging in political parlor games ...
The Other Club: The statism of your health
The Other Club and Michael Cannon say socialized medicine Is already here. We think they have a point, but that doesn't mean things can't get worse, as it is in Britain and Canada ...
On the Ethanol Subsidy
"The truth is that if ethanol has commercial merit, it doesn't need the subsidy. And if it doesn't, no amount of subsidy will bestow it." Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Wishful Thinking Is No Magical Energy Elixir, The Cato Institute ...
The Health Care News is Mixed
Writing in the American Spectator, David Hogberg and Jeremy Taglieri relate hopeful developments in the battle to "move our health care system away from one that is mismanaged by the government and toward one that is more market driven." Jeremy was part of the National Center for Public Policy Research ...
Four of the Continental U.S.’s 15 Longest Hurricane-Free Periods Occurred Since 1983, Despite Global Warming Alarms
David Ridenour takes another look at hurricane records: Global warming alarmists have repeatedly warned us that if we don't act now to stop global warming, we place our lives at increased risk. Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, for example, wrote: "Many American coastal communities may ...
2007 Hurricane Update: Have Records Been Broken?
Putting the 2007 hurricane season in proper context, in light of environmentalist and newsmedia hype, is the focus of this post by David Ridenour: Hurricane Felix was the second category 5 hurricane this season. The newsmedia and global warming alarmists were quick to label Felix as an “unprecedented” and “record-breaking” ...
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