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“Environmentalism Has Become An Inconvenient Ideology”

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Peyton Knight contributes this update: Tuesday, a congressional staff and media briefing titled "European Progress on Reducing Global Warming Emissions - A View from Italy of the Kyoto Protocol" was held on Capitol Hill.The guest speaker at the briefing was ...
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An SCHIP Fraud? Boy Who Delivered Democrat SCHIP Rebuttal May Not Be Low-Income

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A Freeper who goes by the nickname Icwhatudo has come up with evidence that the 12-year-old Baltimore child, Graeme Frost, who spoke for the nation's Democrats September 29 regarding his family's need for taxpayer-financed health insurance, goes to a private ...
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What’s Wrong With a Diaspora, Anyway?

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Sound writing questions why federal tax dollars should be spent to rebuild New Orleans, given the economics of the matter and the fact that all the spending still won't eliminate the city's unusually high vulnerability to destruction by storm. In ...
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Reduced to Tears by Socialized Medicine

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Daniel Macintyre says: I've personally known grown men and women reduced to tears when facing the prospect of taking a sick or injured child to a military hospital......That is, of course, because socialized medicine, far from offering everyone the same ...
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Under Law of the Sea Treaty, Burmese Junta Has Purse String Powers

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David Ridenour takes another look at the Law of the Sea Treaty, and still doesn’t like what he sees: Brutal assaults on pro-democracy demonstrators, the arrest of 700 Buddhist monks, the complete obliteration of at least 18 villages, the dragging ...
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It’s Socialized Medicine, All Right, And We Don’t Want It

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A blogger called knobboy has criticized the National Center's paper, "SCHIP Expansion: Socialized Medicine on the Installment Plan," by citing this New York Times (by Philip M. Boffey, via Firedoglake) complaint: No one has the nerve to brand this country’s ...
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What’s Wrong With the Term “Trekkie,” Anyway?

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National Review Online is running a delightful Star Trek feature this weeked. No conservative Star Trek fan should miss it. But I do wonder how James Lileks can not know the correct title of the ST:TOS episode guest-starring Joan Collins ...
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Inviting Government into the Living Room

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David Leonhardt, a male New York Times economics columnist, sees men on the sofa while women are working, and concludes the answer is universal preschool and federally-mandated paid leave for new parents. Leave it to the New York Times to ...
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Celebrating America’s Heritage Act Wins in House Committee in Mostly Party Line Vote

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An update on this week's action by the House Resources Committee on the Celebrating America's Heritage Act, a step toward federal zoning (with pork attached). Peyton Knight contributes this update: On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Celebrating ...
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Gore Tells Bush to be More Reaganesque

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Peyton Knight approves of some of Al Gore’s advice to President Bush: At former President Clinton's annual "Global Clinton Initiative" summit Thursday, Al Gore called on President Bush to be more like the Gipper. Gore said: I... call on President ...
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