Year: 2007

Being PC More Important Than Welfare of Children

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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 ...
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Hurricane Forecasts Mostly Failed, Experts Say

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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 ...
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Congressman Jefferson’s Racial Sensitivities…

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...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 ...
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Congressmen Supporting Clean Water Bill Should Remember Katrina

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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 ...
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114 Groups & Leaders Write Congress About National Heritage Areas

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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 ...
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Earmarks & the Kelo Decision Rolled Into One

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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, ...
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Would Ronald Reagan Support the Law of the Sea Treaty If He Were President Today?

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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 ...
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Hypocrisy Watch: Congress Expands Opportunity for Self-Dealing While Claiming Historic Progress on Government Ethics

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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 ...
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What Will You Do If Your House Goes Underwater, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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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 ...
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Our Faith and Heritage Has Held America Together in Crisis, by Bishop Council Nedd II

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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 ...
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