Year: 2008

Another Ethanol Problem: Fire

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From Chris Blank of the Associated Press: The nation's drive to use more alternative fuel carries a danger many communities have been slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type ...
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Listing the Polar Bear Under the ESA Could Spell Disaster

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From Peyton Knight: In reaction to the Bush Administration's deliberation over whether to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act the Natural Resources Defense Council's Andrew Wetzler claims: "There's no reason for them not to finalize that decision ...
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Project 21’s Massie Responds to Black College Presidents in Washington Post

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From David Almasi: Last Sunday, the Washington Post published a letter to the editor from four presidents of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Maryland, who took issue with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ...
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Connerly Reprints Borelli

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From Deneen Borelli: Following last year's U.S. Supreme Court rejection of racial preferences in public school admissions, I wrote a New Visions Commentary for Project 21 titled "Diversity Doesn't Need To Be Forced." Ward Connerly, President of the American Civil ...
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Project 21 Member to Lead D.C. Demonstration Monday Supporting Armed Forces Recruiters

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From David Almasi: On February 15, anti-war protestors affiliated with the rejuvenated Students for a Democratic Society marched through Washington, D.C.'s evening rush hour. When they found the local armed forces recruiting station open, the protestors stormed the office and ...
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Ethanol Subsidies, Mandates May Be Vulnerable

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David's op-ed on the many problems with ethanol continues to be picked up by newspapers (since the nine newspapers I mentioned Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Oakland Tribune, the Alameda Times-Star and the Argus in California have run it), and ...
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Sour Green Grapes

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David's comments, posted here last week on the primary election loss of Green Republican Representative Wayne Gilchest of Maryland, have been expanded upon and have now been published in a column on TownHall.com: It seems that Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) ...
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Fan Mail

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Our Peyton Knight was featured on BBC's Planet Earth video series. I just ran across this recent email sent to the National Center for Public Policy Research general email box from one of his fans: Mr Knight - I had ...
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Congressional Love Affair with Ethanol Leaves Others Cold

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The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol isn't shared by conservative groups, and a new op-ed by husband David Ridenour shows some environmentalists are skeptical as well. David's piece says, in part: ..."We are witnessing the beginning ...
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Wayne Gilchrest Finds It’s Not Easy Being Green

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Statement of David A. Ridenour, Vice President, The National Center for Public Policy Research on the election loss of Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), a "green" Republican, in Tuesday's primary in Maryland: Politicians who have been cowering ever since Rep. Richard ...
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