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A Global Warming Alarmist’s Lament

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I wonder how many global warming alarmists are trying to prove this study was funded by ExxonMobil right about now. Hat tip: The Other Club ...
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Traducing a Legacy in Order to Save It

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John McCaslin's widely-read Inside the Beltway column covered Peyton Knight's and R.J. Smith's work opposing the expansion of federal control over local land-use policies today: Where's the beef? Now it's the property-rights advocates who are critical of embattled Sen. George ...
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“Club CSR” – A Corporate ‘Get-Out-of-Jail Free’ Card?

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Tom Borelli says participation in "Corporate Social Responsibility" initiatives is often a sign that a company is having difficulty making money or, possibly, meeting its legal responsibilities: [Corporate Social Responsibility] is an insurance policy for image-sensitive CEOs.By paying an ideological ...
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What is a “Squish”?

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In the category of "making me feel old," I note this post on the Club for Growth blog, speculating that the word "squish" was first used to I.D. a Republican of less-than-conservative pedigree sometime after 2004. "Squish" was in frequent ...
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Helping the Uninsurable: Tinkering vs. Radical Reform

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From David Hogberg: Over at The Health Care Blog, Matthew Holt has this to say about the collapse of PacAdvantage, a voluntary small business purchasing pool in California: What happens to voluntary purchasing pools? Simple economics -- they only get ...
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Anti-Property Rights Initiative Gets Boost from Unlikely Source: Senator George Allen

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Washington, D.C. - Nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's shocking Kelo v. New London decision touched off a firestorm of bipartisan support for stronger property rights protections, some anti-property rights groups are receiving support from a surprising source:  ...
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With All the Zeal of a Green Torquemada

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An editorial in the Examiner looks at one of the biggest threats facing the planet: Politicians using the power of the state to investigate and intimidate people who disagree with their policy recommendations. Nice end line: "When you must resort ...
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How to Reform Health Insurance

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David Hogberg shares his thoughts about how to make health insurance better and more affordable: As I noted in the first post of my “Medicare for All: No Thanks” series, I'd take the U.S. health care system "over the U.K.'s ...
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Defamation as Tactic: Promoting Global Warming Alarmism by Misleading Readers

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I offer here a case study in the way journalists serve the cause of global warming alarmists -- in this particular case, by claiming scientists are associated with the fossil fuel industry using "evidence" even a superficial investigation would have ...
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I Wish I Knew

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Dear Mrs. Ridenour: There is yet hope for the Republic. That paragon of blog search engines, Technorati, informs me that your candor in posting my letter has met with bipartisan approbation. Now comes the hard part -- how to persuade ...
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