Year: 2008

Property Rights Going Up in Smoke, by Sean Turner

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"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."  - Frédéric Bastiat I ...

Changing Attitudes, Changing Lives, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Back in 1958, the pollsters at the Gallup organization began what became a regular survey of American attitudes about race.  In particular, they asked people whether they approved of interracial marriage and if they could support a black person running ...

Critics of Global Warming Agenda are Motivated by a Love of Freedom, Borelli Says

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From David Almasi: Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli recently wrote a New Visions Commentary on global warming politics that has been re-posted all over the Internet, including Townhall.com, GOPUSA.com and ChronWatch, to name just a few. Here is a sample ...

Don’t Let Al Sharpton Hold English Hostage

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National Center for Public Policy Research Executive Director David Almasi says Project 21's Mychal Massie is right to take on Al Sharpton in the recent Tiger Woods - Golf Channel controversy. Says David: When Golf Channel commentator Kelly Tilghman used ...

Tax Reduction, Not Tax Redistribution, Spurs Economic Activity

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The National Center for Public Policy Research's David Ridenour signed on today to a coalition letter on the so-called "stimulous plan" that was organized by the National Taxpayers Union: January 28, 2008 An Open Letter to the United States Congress: ...

Pardon Ramos and Compean, Says Project 21 Chairman

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Advocates of pardons for incarcerated border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean have an ally in Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie, who called on President Bush to pardon Ramos and Compean in an op-ed published by the Washington Times: ...

Are the Airlines Anti-Family?

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Planning a trip, husband David Ridenour finds that airlines aren't exactly family-friendly... You ever wonder why airlines are about as popular as used car dealers these days? Perhaps it's due, in part, to their anti-family policies. Case in point: I ...

A New Environmentalist Manifesto

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What might an effective environmental movement be like? WILLisms writes what could, and should, be the philosophical basis of a new environmentalist manifesto: I tend to think of myself as an environmentalist, but completely removed from today's movement. I reject ...

Wolf-Protecting Oil Drilling Opponent Rep. George Miller Stands Squarely on Both Sides of the Caribou-Protection Issue

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From Roll Call, a story about a generous offer by Alaska Rep. Don Young to the very liberal Rep. George Miller: Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) wants California Democrat George Miller’s district to go to the wolves. Young sent a 'Dear ...

Ten Myths About Nuclear Power

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Rob Johnston, writing at Spiked, takes apart ten myths popularized by British environmentalists against nuclear power. As many if not all of these myths are promoted here in the U.S., I thought I'd reprint them here, but you have to ...

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