Category: Blog

Black Votes — No GOP Fantasy

Interesting article in today's Washington Post on a big jump in the percentage of African-Americans self-identifying as conservative and/or Republican ...
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Judge, May I Walk My Dog?

A federal judge has blocked the new federal rules requiring unions to report on the use of members' dues, says the AP. Judge Gladys Kessler says the Labor Department "has simply failed to offer any reasonable justification for requiring such ...
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Gee, Who Would’ve Thunk It?

Anybody else noticing that the spammers don't seem to care about the new federal anti-spam law? ...
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Fighting Lawsuit Abuse

We've got a new edition of our Legal Briefs newsletter posted today. Feature article is on lawsuits against makers of drugs designed to fight the effects of schizophrenia. As usual, we include a brief story about a silly lawsuit ...
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Washington Post Slams Bush Global Warming Policy

The Washington Post ran a front page article slamming President Bush's global warming policies. I dissect the assumptions underlying it here ...
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Top 10 Lowlights of The New York Times in 2003

I read this report from the Media Research Center to see if my personal pet peeve about the New York Times -- some particulars about its environmental coverage -- made the list. It didn't, but I see from the list ...
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Take That, Hans Blix!

An observation from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: President Bush's strong stand against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the prospects of an Iraqi program to produce weapons of mass destruction made the writing on the wall very clear to ...
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WSJ – The Politics of Autism

Trial lawyers on the loose again, this time in an effort to cash in on a very tenuous (probably nonexistent) link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines have saved a lot of lives. We know this for a fact. Science doesn't ...
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Raining on the Environmentalist Parade

NCPPR executive director David Almasi rains once again on the environmentalists' parade: In his 2003 State of the Union Address, President Bush promised $1.7 billion in funds to develop hydrogen fuel cell technology. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham envisioned "a world ...
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Protesting Affirmative Action, One College Application at a Time

This interesting website takes a grassroots approach to the cause of promoting a colorblind society by asking students heading to college or grad school to formally pledge to refuse to play the affirmative action game by entering their race incorrectly ...
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