Year: 2007

Global Warming’s Predicted Effects – With a Twist

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"Melting polar ice caps to raise the level of seas and flood the continents... the great ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting and pouring their torrents into the oceans... The earth is steadily growing warmer... the sea ...
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Another Bit Of “Unbiased” Reporting On the U.S. Health Care System

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Our David Hogberg found the following press release on Yahoo!: The United States may be the wealthiest country in the world, but we rank only 15th in overall health care for chronic disease sufferers, according to the World Health Organization ...
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Jonathan’s Law

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The Carey family of New York State has been promoting "Jonathan's Law," a proposal to make records concerning the care of disabled children available to the child's parents. The Careys are promoting this law after the state's Office of Mental ...
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Social Security Nominee Rejected Because He Believes in Personal Accounts

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Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has announced he is refusing even to hold hearings on President Bush's nominee, Andrew Biggs, to be the #2 official at the Social Security Administration. Baucus is refusing to schedule ...
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The Totalitarian Left

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Randy Hall reports that some Methodists are objecting to President Bush putting his presidential library at Southern Methodist University -- but Jimmy Carter's Carter Center is "partnered" with United Methodist-related Emory University. Maybe these particular Methodists only like presidents with ...
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“On Behalf of Jeff Immelt and the Other Sane People at GE, I Say…

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...[expletive deleted] you." Why is GE so afraid of a little transparency? The publicly-traded Free Enterprise Action Fund wants GE shareholders to vote on a proposal to require GE management to explain why GE is lobbying in favor of economically-restrictive ...
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Prosecuting Global Warming Deniers

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From Dennis Prager: ...it would not be surprising that soon, in Europe, global warming deniers will be treated as Holocaust deniers and prosecuted. Just watch. That is far more likely than the oceans rising by 20 feet. Or even 10 ...
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The Hard Look Applies Ockham’s Razor

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The Hard Look blog applies Ockham's Razor to climate change: If Franciscan friar William of Ockham were alive today, he would reject the IPCC report and instead point to the work of Dr. Henrik Svensmark, who presents hard data showing ...
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Vaclav Klaus: Environmentalism is a New Incarnation of Leftism

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Harvard Professor Lubos Motl's website has an English translation of an entertaining, and very hard-hitting, interview Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus gave recently on global warming. A couple of quotes: "...it's obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern ...
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Don’t Squelch Opportunities

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy's Ryan S. Olson are calling on Michigan legislators not to squelch the ability of children in Detroit and elsewhere to attend failing public schools: Legislators: Listen to Detroit ...
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