The Supreme Court's decision is a victory for the bad guys in the battle over whether the American people will be governed by accountable elected officials or unaccountable judges. Unable to convince the Senate to vote upon, let alone ratify, ... READ MORE
The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report ... READ MORE
Got an e-mail today from "Ilyse, Nita, Matt, Wes and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team" with a message I agree with entirely, but which is bit curious, coming from MoveOn.org's PAC: Evidence is piling up that the climate crisis is ... READ MORE
In Britain, very likely the country doing more than any other to fight what its government believes is a threat from human caused global warming, the phrase "fuel poverty" is gaining currency (no pun intended). One of the side effects ... READ MORE
Britain's government-run single-payer health care system mixes men and women in hospital wards. Privacy and decency, let alone safety in some cases, apparently are incompatible with single-payer, government-run medicine. If you read nothing else about single-payer government medicine all year, ... READ MORE
Joe R. Hicks, a Project 21 member who marched arm-in-arm with Jesse Jackson at Cesar Chavez's funeral in 1993, will testify before Congress Thursday morning in opposition to spending public funds honoring the late United Farm Workers union organizer. Hicks ... READ MORE
From TheHill.com comes word that Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is joining Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in blocking Al Gore's request to hold a huge music concert on the Capitol grounds in July. The concert, dubbed "Live Earth," is designed ... READ MORE
Project 21's Joe Hicks testified today before the House Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands about H.R. 359, "The Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act," introduced by Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA). Rep. Solis apparently wasn't too ... READ MORE
We have recently been critical of Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), for co-sponsoring (with Ted Kennedy, no less) a bill that would force Americans who buy health insurance policies (including through their employer) to pay for mental health coverage equal to ... READ MORE
David Hogberg writes: Today I attended the Health Subcommittee hearingin the House of Representatives on "Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity." Mental health and substance abuse parity means that if a health insurance program covers mental health and substance abuse ... READ MORE
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