Year: 2006

Kyoto Costs Examined, Succinctly

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Americans on opposite sides of the issue address the question of projected costs of ratifying the Kyoto Treaty: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1998: Recently [a Republican Congressman] claimed that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would increase the prices of consumer ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Demand for Social Security Nomination Nullification Exposes Liberal Intolerance of Reform; Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore Cites the Need for a Wide-Ranging Examination of Ways to Save Seniors’ Financial Safety Net

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A demand from the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare for the incoming Senate leadership to reject the nomination of a proponent of Social Security privatization indicates that liberals are unwilling to consider all possible ways to ...
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Post and Olbermann v. NSTA: In Good Journalism, Fact-Checking Is Everything

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The National Science Teachers Association has now officially responded to Laurie David's Washington Post op-ed (see Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters post on the op-ed here) essentially accusing the group of being captive to corporate interests when it declined a gift of ...
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Stealing: Not OK — Even at Work

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We're equal opportunity critics here at the National Center. I critique MSNBC; husband David provides similarly constructive advice to Fox. To that end, I reproduce a letter David sent today to John Gibson, host of The Big Story on the ...
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On Social Security, Liberals Seek Censorship by Unemployment

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore is noting that efforts by the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and its allies to block President Bush's appointment of Andrew Biggs as deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration is ...
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When It Comes to Hurricanes and Global Warming, Rhetoric Was the Only Thing that Grew in Intensity in 2006

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Husband David has a few things to say about Al Gore and the end of the 2006 hurricane season: Inaccurate 2006 Hurricane Forecast Should Remind Americans that Climatology is an Uncertain Science - and Political Science, Even More SoWashington, D.C ...
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Forbes: Can Corporations Save The World?

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As noted by Forbes magazine, National Center Senior Fellow Tom Borelli says there is a link -- and not the kind folks like -- between corporations that put resources into appeasing the PC police (my description, not his) and the ...
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Congress May Be a Lame Duck, But National Heritage Area Proposal Still Lives

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We're told Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) is going to try to get his National Heritage Area legislation through Congress during the lame duck session. We worry that the National Heritage Area plan could harm property rights and inappropriately increase federal ...
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Dead Father of Two

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I wish the news media would stop prominently referring to Sean Bell, the man killed in a Saturday confrontation with police in Queens, as a "groom." Sean Bell and the lady he planned to marry already had two children together ...
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An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom: Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” Declined to Distribute Gore’s Movie to Teachers

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With the final line "Linda Froschauer, president of the National Science Teachers Association, available at the right price," Keith Olbermann of MSNBC Monday named Froschauer "worst person in the world." How did Ms. Froschauer get labeled a policy prostitute on ...
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