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Project 21’s Joe Hicks to Tell Congress: UFW’s Cesar Chavez Should Not Be Honored with Public Funds

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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 ...
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Thank God for Senator Inhofe II

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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 ...
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Joe Hicks Testifies About Cesar Chavez

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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 ...
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Good for Pete Domenici

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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 ...
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Mental Health Parity Hearing Is Depressing

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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 ...
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When Texas Has Rolling Brownouts, We’ll Know Who to Blame

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Writing on Townhall.com, Senior Fellow Tom Borelli explains how the green activist groups Rainforest Action Network, Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council used a letter campaign and protests outside of Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to stop ...
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Good for Mitch McConnell

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Senate Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has stepped in to prevent global warming activists from using the Capitol grounds as part of their political crusade to make the energy use of Americans subject to limitations created in Washington (if we're "lucky"; they ...
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Frank Drebin Does Health Insurance

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From David Hogberg: Today the Census Bureau revised its 2005 estimate of the uninsured downward from 46.5 million to 44.8 million. Well, what is an organization like the Commonwealth Fund that is dedicated to more government involvement in health care ...
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The Congressional Leadership Has Failed

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Project 21's Kevin Martin says House action on Iraq today "will only secure the disgrace and defeat of the mission our brave troops are pledged to fight." He adds: "It is the job of those in uniform to fight for ...
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The Human Cost of Climate Change Policies

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Do environmental regulations, such as those proposed to fight "global warming," have a human cost? At Tuesday���s climate change hearing before the Energy and Mineral Resources Committee of the U.S. House Resources Committee, Robert E. Murray of the Murray Energy ...
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