Being PC More Important Than Welfare of Children
This pathetic story shows what happens when people -- in this case, local government employees in Britain -- place a higher priority on being politically correct than being morally right. I hope the people who put their fear of being thought politically-incorrect over the welfare of children are, at the ...
Hurricane Forecasts Mostly Failed, Experts Say
Computer models "did very poorly" at forecasting the development of Hurricane Felix. If computer models are not well enough developed to tell us about a hurricane that already exists, can we really rely on them to tell us what the climate will be like, and why, decades from now? ...
Congressman Jefferson’s Racial Sensitivities…
...are decidedly one-sided. He has had his attorneys file a motion (subscription may be required) asking a federal judge to move his trial on corruption charges from Virginia to either the District of Columbia or to New Orleans. Jefferson's motive is to try to influence the likely racial make-up of ...
Congressmen Supporting Clean Water Bill Should Remember Katrina
Peyton Knight looks at Rep. James Oberstar's Clean Water Restoration Act, and wonders why Congress doesn't seem to have learned much from Hurricane Katrina: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) and many of his colleagues traveled to New Orleans and witnessed the destruction firsthand. They were ...
114 Groups & Leaders Write Congress About National Heritage Areas
The National Center for Public Policy Research on Tuesday delivered to the Congressional leadership, as well as the members and leadership of the natural resource committees, a letter signed by 114 organizations and leaders calling on Congress to stop creating and funding national heritage areas. The letter says: Dear [Elected ...
Earmarks & the Kelo Decision Rolled Into One
The Hill newspaper's Congress Blog covered the letter we organized, signed by 114 organizations and local leaders, calling on Congress not to support the creation of additional national heritage areas or federal funding for heritage area management entities, support groups, or groups that lobby for the creation of new heritage ...
Would Ronald Reagan Support the Law of the Sea Treaty If He Were President Today?
Supporters of U.S. ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty often claim Ronald Reagan would support ratification of LOST (also referred to as UNCLOS, short for "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"), were he with us today. Many of them have publicly argued that President Reagan's ...
Hypocrisy Watch: Congress Expands Opportunity for Self-Dealing While Claiming Historic Progress on Government Ethics
Washington, D.C. - At the very time Senators were congratulating themselves for passing what they termed "the most sweeping ethics reform in history," they approved a series of "national heritage area" bills that significantly increase the potential for self-dealing and corruption, says the National Center for Public Policy Research. In ...
What Will You Do If Your House Goes Underwater, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
In September 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and related floods placed thousands of homes underwater. Now the word is that many homes across the nation soon will likely go under water in financial terms. In these cases, "underwater" means that the value of a home, based on the price ...
Our Faith and Heritage Has Held America Together in Crisis, by Bishop Council Nedd II
In November of 1861, as the nation faced the prospect of a long and bloody civil war, a lone preacher from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania wrote to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase with an idea. The Reverend M. R. Watkinson proposed that America's currency be used to remind its citizens of our ...
Hip-Hop Hype Hurts, Just Ask Michael Vick, by Kevin Martin
Hip-Hop Hype Hurts, Just Ask Michael Vick by Kevin Martin (bio) Hip-hop culture has claimed a high-profile victim: Michael Vick. I refuse to have an ounce of sympathy for Michael Vick, who is reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors for his role in arranging dog fights on his Virginia ...
“Medicare for All” Universal Health Care Would Not Solve the Problem of Rising Health Care Costs
In mid-2006, the governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, succeeded in passing his health care reform through the Massachusetts legislature. This ignited a debate on health care policy in the U.S. that shows no signs of subsiding. From the governors, to members of Congress, to presidential candidates, it seems that every ...
SCHIP Expansion: Socialized Medicine on the Installment Plan
INTRODUCTION The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was created by Congress and President Bill Clinton as part of Balanced Budget Act of 1997. SCHIP was intended to give $24 billion in federal matching funds over ten years to state governments for the provision of health insurance to about 5 ...
Live from New York, It’s More Regulation, by Deneen Borelli
Live from New York, It's More Regulation by Deneen Borelli (bio) New York City is known for Broadway musicals, but now there's a reality show that you don't want to miss called "Looting Liberty." Starring Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it chronicles the ever-dwindling personal choices and freedoms available to city ...
Global Warming Comment of the Year
After Steve Outing of Editor and Publisher wrote a column encouraging journalists to abandon any effort at objectivity when covering global warming, reader Tim Estes of Phoenix, Arizona wrote in response: Your whole contention about newspapers giving up objectivity, so as to battle global warming, is akin to a whore ...
2007 Hurricane Season: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion?
Husband David Ridenour examines the 2007 hurricane season in light of environmentalist claims about a link between hurricanes and global warming: Environmentalists can't be very happy with the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season so far. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had predicted an "above normal" hurricane season, but as ...
A Pet Peeve Post
I agree with this (though not necessarily the comments!). Why do community pools have "adult swim," anyway? I can see it when done as an opportunity to let adults swim laps, but if that were the purpose, banning kids from the lap area would suffice ...
Concerned About Carbon? Use Wood
Writing in the Vancouver Sun, environmental activist Patrick Moore explains why people who want to remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere should use, and envcourage others to use, wood products ...
Congress Covering Up Crime?
Not their own -- donors'. As the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, nearly 800 convictions in si years -- a staggering number -- have occurred as a result of audits and investigations of labor unions conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards. So how does the new Congress ...
For Michael Vick and Hip-Hop Culture, No Sympathy from Kevin Martin
Michael Vick and hip-hop culture are the focus of these thoughts by Project 21's Kevin Martin: Hip-Hop Hype Hurts, Just Ask Michael Vick Hip-hop culture has claimed a high-profile victim: Michael Vick. I refuse to have an ounce of sympathy for Michael Vick, who is reaching a plea agreement with ...
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