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LWR Recycle: Necessity or Impediment? by George S. Stanford (pdf file)

The National Center's Ryan Balis has suggested I recommended this Miami Herald op-ed by Patrick Moore to blog readers. Moore is a founder of the environmental group Greenpeace. In the op-ed, Moore explains why he left Greenpeace ("By the mid-1980s, ...
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Talking Points on Social Security: Social Security in Crisis

Opponents of President Bush's plan to rescue and modernize Social Security increasingly are claiming "there is no crisis." But Social Security is pledged to pay out $25 trillion more by 2077 than it expects to have available.1How can that not ...
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Overlawyered: Newsweek v. Washington Monthly

We are in for a tumultuous four years, folks. Nationally, the Right is in the most advantageous policymaking position it has been in since before the New Deal. The Left knows it, and is throwing everything it can against the ...
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Associated Press & Global Warming: Never Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Theory

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Associated Press has recently run two global warming stories by AP Special Correspondent Charles P. Hanley that misrepresent objective facts about climate, apparently for the purpose of leading readers to believe that human activities are causing the planet ...
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Profiles of Empowerment, by Virgil Beato

New Visions Commentary /
Black History Month celebrations largely focus on those who secured equal rights for all: People such as Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What's often overlooked, however, is the path of opportunity they paved and its ...
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Can the Unborn Save Future Generations? by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
Thirty-three years after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, "Jane Roe" (whose real name is Norma McCorvey) is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rehear her case because she claims she was lied to about the safety of the procedure. But ...
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Black Leaders Turn King’s Dream Into A Nightmare, by Jerry Brooks

New Visions Commentary /
Every third Monday in January, our nation celebrates the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's struggle for civil rights and equality are certainly worthy of recognition and emulation. Events will honor his life and achievements ...
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It’s About the Common Man, Not the Celebrities, by E. LeMay Lathan

New Visions Commentary /
While watching the television special "Black History, Television Shows" with my family, I learned things that had never occurred to me about some of my favorite shows. The program, hosted by sportscaster James Brown, featured a panel of celebrities and ...
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What the NAACP Should Do Now, by Lana Hampton

New Visions Commentary /
With a changing of the guard occurring at the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization has an opportunity for growth and change. It would be in the NAACP's best interest to put itself on a more centrist course than ...
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Christians Promote Environmental Stewardship, Not Radical Agenda

Press Release /
Recent reports in the media that evangelical Christians have embraced the protectionist goals of the establishment environmental movement are exaggerated. As the 36th anniversary of the first Earth Day is observed on April 22, it should be noted that the ...
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