Year: 2007

Black Activist Criticizes Nagin’s Convoluted Comments to Senate Committee

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Calling his testimony a "smokescreen" to cover up his own failings at the outset of the Hurricane Katrina crisis, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are criticizing the racially-charged rhetoric of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (D) before ...
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Enron’s Green-Fingered Successors

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I won't let the week end without a fisking of the Washington Post's silly global warming op-ed Monday by in-house writer Sebastian Mallaby. Mallaby says: "While the White House was sorting out its message, the rest of Washington was busy ...
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Los Angeles Times Runs Kitty Kelley Op-Ed Blasting Bush Family Without Fact-Checking

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The Los Angeles Times and Harper's have a bit of egg on their faces. The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Kitty Kelley last week claiming that no one in George W. Bush's extended family -- daughers, neices or ...
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If You Think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Presents Objective Science…

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read this. Labels: Climate, Environment ...
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Social Security: A Quick Definition

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Willisms describes our current Social Security system: The government confiscates your money, keeps it for decades, gives you back a terrible return on your money, then taxes you for the privilege. (Until the system goes bankrupt, that is.) Labels: Social ...
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Global Cooling Again

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If you follow global warming debates, you've heard how environmentalists and their media allies predicted global cooling in the 1970s, only to reverse course in the 1980s. Well, everything old is new again. Russian scientists are now predicting global cooling, ...
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Environmentalism versus Poor (Again)

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The current pro-ethanol fad in the United States apparently is a factor in making poor Mexicans cut back on corn tortillas, a dietary staple, says a January 27 Washington Post article by Manuel Roig-Franzia: Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off ...
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Like Welfare Queens of Yore

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Another big business wants a handout from taxpayers: The owner of the Washington Wizards has asked the District for $50 million to renovate Verizon Center, and city officials are discussing whether to honor the request and pay for it with ...
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Blacks Say Bush Blows Opportunity to Fight for Judges

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President George W. Bush mentioned the importance of filling vacancies in our judicial system with qualified nominees, but he failed to use his State of the Union Address to discuss the problem of liberal obstructionism of these nominees in the ...
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Paul Krugman: Master Spinner

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The National Center's health policy analyst, David Hogberg, is impressed by Paul Krugman -- by Krugman's mastery of spin, that is. Here's David's look at the way Krugman is covering some of President Bush's recent statements on health care reform: ...
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