Category: Blog

Burning the Fuel in Order to Save It

Chris Burger of The National Center's John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs has some questions about the Sierra Club in this note: Last summer, the Sierra Club -- typically a group that is vehemently opposed to ...
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PBS & Rockefeller: Presence of Hispanic Laborers Might Inconvenience NewsHour Guests

Our E.D. David Almasi spots a case of limousine liberalism: NIMBY stands for Not-In-My-Back-Yard, a typical suburban opposition to new development or change to the surroundings. In suburban DC, the local PBS affiliate is engaging in a bit of NIMBYism ...
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An Irony

An irony of the drug reimportation debate: Proponents of drug reimportation often say they are merely trying to make prescription drugs more affordable for American seniors, but the pro-drug reimportation stance of the House is so strongly opposed by the ...
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Speaking of Brown v. Board of Education, Does the Left Still Support It?

Various folks here have opinions about NY Mayor Bloomberg's announcement that NYC will open a public high school exclusively for gay students. David Almasi, our executive director, notes the irony of a liberal-backed plan to segregate gay students from others ...
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So What’s Her Full Middle Name?

OK, so the NY Times has a reporter whose middle numeral is "8," as in "Jennifer 8. Lee." Others have noticed this already. Fine. But since the Times puts a period after the "8," we must assume "8" is an ...
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So How About It, Ms. Lee? What’s Your Source?

A New York Times piece by Jennifer 8. Lee on July 28 says "Many senators are torn between growing public concern about global warming and industry's contentions that carbon dioxide regulations are misguided..." I'll skip a diatribe about the story ...
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Senator Jim Inhofe 1, Arianna Huffington 6

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) delivered a long speech about climate change on the floor of the Senate Monday. As I write this the Environment and Public Works Committee does not yet have a copy of the Senator's speech on its ...
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Maybe the Senator Thinks Oliver Brown Sued the Topeka Board of Education Because He Liked Segregated Classrooms

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has it wrong. The occasion this time it is his observation in the Sunday New York Times about those who say the Senate Democrats’ resistance to pro-life judicial nominees amounts to a de facto anti-Catholic bias ...
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The Fox New Channel is Wrong…

...to label Bob Hope's daughter on screen as "adopted daughter." His daughter is his daughter ...
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Lawsuits All Around

Three justices on the Nevada Supreme Court may be suing columnist Vin Suprynowicz and the Las Vegas Review-Journal for defamation, says Rick Henderson's Deregulator blog, brought to my attention by Jonathan Garthwaite. They'd lose that suit, in my opinion. This ...
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