Year: 2007

National Review Institute Hosts Energy Policy Debate

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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 ...

Congressional Self-Dealing Alive and Well — Legislation that Would Enrich Select Special Interest Groups to be Voted on This Week

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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 ...

Government Says Yes Then Says No

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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 ...

“Above Normal” Hurricane Forecast is in a Race Against the Clock

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...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 ...

Black Group Demands Prompt Senate Consideration for Mukasey

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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 ...

The Other Club: The statism of your health

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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

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"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 ...

The Health Care News is Mixed

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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 ...

Four of the Continental U.S.’s 15 Longest Hurricane-Free Periods Occurred Since 1983, Despite Global Warming Alarms

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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 ...

2007 Hurricane Update: Have Records Been Broken?

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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 ...

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