Year: 2007

World’s Worst Neighbor

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Parents in Brooklyn were threatened with a $300 fine by New York City because their six-year-old daughter drew a chalk flower on the family' front stoop. It seems a contender for the title of "world's worst neighbor" called the city ...

DeSmogBlog: Expect Confusion

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DeSmogBlog is attempting to undercut a petition drive by Art Robinson's Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine by reporting that Dr. Frederick Seitz, lead signatory on the petition and a man in his 90s, allegedly was "quite elderly and not ...

SCHIP Poll

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The folks at Democratic Underground are encouraging each other to visit The National Center for Public Policy Research's new website covering SCHIP. We have a poll there asking the following: What should Congress do about SCHIP? Expand it Modify it ...

The SCHIP/Frost Affair Continues; Paul Krugman Calls Me a Busybody

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I now have the dubious, but hardly unique, distinction of being the subject of an error-filled essay by the New York Times' infamous Paul Krugman. Subject: The SCHIP/Graeme Frost affair and whether adults on public assistance have a right to ...

Behind Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize

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What is Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize based upon? Peyton Knight takes a look: Al Gore's receipt of the increasingly politicized Nobel Peace Prize comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for the former vice president. British High Court Judge Michael ...

SCHIP: Fix What’s Broken

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Tom Blumer at Bizzy Blog says: How about we fix what’s broken in SCHIP and Medicaid before embarking headlong on an ill-advised expansion? President Bush was right to veto SCHIP; the minority in Congress will be right should they sustain ...

“Environmentalism Has Become An Inconvenient Ideology”

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Peyton Knight contributes this update: Tuesday, a congressional staff and media briefing titled "European Progress on Reducing Global Warming Emissions - A View from Italy of the Kyoto Protocol" was held on Capitol Hill.The guest speaker at the briefing was ...

Coalition Letter: Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act

Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act October 9, 2007 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative H-232, U.S. Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Pelosi: A bill is now making its way through the ...

Oberstar and Feingold Bait-and-Switch: Deceptively-Named “Clean Water Restoration Act” Would Expand, Not Restore Federal Powers

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Washington, D.C. - A letter signed by over 100 people representing diverse interests and millions of Americans is being delivered to Congress this morning contending that the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) would achieve the opposite of what its sponsors ...

An SCHIP Fraud? Boy Who Delivered Democrat SCHIP Rebuttal May Not Be Low-Income

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A Freeper who goes by the nickname Icwhatudo has come up with evidence that the 12-year-old Baltimore child, Graeme Frost, who spoke for the nation's Democrats September 29 regarding his family's need for taxpayer-financed health insurance, goes to a private ...

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