Year: 2007

Congress Votes to Line Special Interest Pockets, Threaten Local Rule

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Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Celebrating America's Heritage Act" (H.R. 1483) which would send over $135 million of federal pork to special interest groups in select members' districts.  The bill would create six new ...
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Environmental Groups, Lawsuits and Wildfires

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Michelle Malkin has a good post up today on wildfires and environmental obstructionism. I recommend the whole thing. Michelle recommends our 2005 e-mail alert "Forest Reforms in the Crossfire" by Dana Joel Gattuso. Dana notes that certain high-litigious environmental organizations ...
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John Stossel on Global Warming

The Stop The ACLU blog has the video. Hat tip: Brad Wilmouth, writing at Newsbusters (Brad's post inclues a transcript of Stossel's piece). _____ Labels: Climate, Environment, Media ...
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SCHIP’s Next Controversy: New “Ad” Tells Kids to Smoke

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This mock ad appearing on You Tube will no doubt be controversial, but it makes an accurate point. The SCHIP expansion the Democratic leadership is fighting for is to be funded by smokers. There aren't enough smokers now to fund ...
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Pepsi Gets Political

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PepsiCo's political activism is helping to cause elected officials and government bodies (such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors) to call on people not to buy PepsiCo's Aquafina -- America's bestselling brand of bottled water. Pepsi stockholders might wish to ...
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Democrat Leadership Limits Options for Frost Family and Other SCHIP Recipients

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Nancy Pelosi has been critical of people who questioned whether the Frost family of Baltimore really needs other people to pay their health insurance premiums. Yet it turns out she's not so pro-Frost herself: SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice; Democratic Leadership ...
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In Which We Are Condemned As Big-Spending Quasi-Liberals (on SCHIP, No Less)

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Dale Franks at QandO is bitterly complaining about my complaint that the Democrat Congressional leadership and its handful of Republican allies have a provision in their SCHIP expansion bill forbidding SCHIP families from making use of FSAs and MSAs offered ...
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Pete Stark on SCHIP and the War

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https://youtu.be/7lTUB5_l0Mg Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his gang were so, so upset that Rush Limbaugh used the term "phony soldiers." Will they object to what Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) said on the floor of the House? "You don't have ...
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SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice; Democratic Leadership SCHIP Bill Blocks Insurance Options for the Frost Family

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Washington, D.C. - As the U.S. House of Representatives votes today in what the Democratic leadership hopes will be a successful override of President Bush's veto of its SCHIP expansion bill, The National Center for Public Policy Research wants to ...
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The Debt Tsunami Begins: First Baby Boomer Files for Social Security

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Kathleen Casey-Kirschling became the first baby boomer to file for Social Security retirement benefits today, prompting warnings from those in the know that both Social Security and Medicare are both desperately insolvent. A Fox News report excerpt tells part of ...
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