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Boxer-Kerry Cap-and Trade Bill Puts Corporate Interests Over National Interest

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Free Enterprise Project Director Tom Borelli has been closely monitoring the corporations who lobby for cap-and-trade. Tom issued a statement Friday on the ways the new Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill (or perhaps I should say, bill framework, because it appears to ...
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Steve Milloy Picks Apart Paulson Plan on WBAL at 1:30 on Thursday – Listen Live!

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By David Almasi: Steve Milloy, a director of the National Center's newly-announced Free Enterprise Project, will be a guest of Clarence Mitchell IV on WBAL radio in Baltimore this afternoon at 1:30 pm eastern. Steve will discuss his comments yesterday ...
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Cut Off Health Care to ObamaCare Opponents, Says Bitter Old NPR Guy

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Garrison Keiller fantasizes about cutting off ObamaCare opponents' access to the health care system. Thanks, Keiller, for another reminder of why government-run health care really s---ks, because in those systems, bitter old fogeys like yourself really can cut off the ...
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Billionaires Seeking Welfare

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Billionaire Warren Buffett famously says taxes should be increased. Well, no wonder! He's trying to get on -- if he isn't already on -- the moral equivalent of welfare himself by buying into Goldman Sachs at a time when that ...
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Quote of Note: Keep Newspapers Independent

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"Newspapers are the heart of America's greatest publishing tradition - independent voices eager to expose official wrongdoing, to shine light in dark places, to speak for ordinary people. It is no exaggeration to say that newspapers were so crucial to ...
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Project 21’s Bob Parks Discusses Health Care Policy on BET Special

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Project 21 member Bob Parks has taped a panel discussion on health care policy that is scheduled to air on Black Entertainment Television this Sunday, September 27, at 9:00 PM eastern. Bob participated in BET's "Critical Condition: What's at Stake ...
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Ted Stevens Gets a Jury of His Peers

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From The Hill today: Despite having served in the Senate for four decades, longer than any Republican in history, 12 jurors and four alternates hearing his criminal case have acknowledged knowing little about Stevens. I guess they never served on ...
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

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On Rt. 50 this morning, I saw a black VW plastered with left-of-center bumper stickers. These made clear the driver's support for an expansion of the nanny state and for laws designed to protect us from ourselves. Imagine my surprise ...
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It’s a Sad State of Affairs…

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...when the leader of the free world isn't the President of the United States, but the Israeli Prime Minister. Written by David A. Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Write the author at [email protected] As ...
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Outrage of the Day: Tax-Financed Business Loans to Wealthy, Politically-Connected Investors

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I need go no further than posting the first sentence of Josh Mitchell and Stephen Power's Wall Street Journal News story, "Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan: "A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has ...
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