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Should Most of America’s Kids Be on the Dole?

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See where you stand regarding the current debate on health insurance coverage for children, and then see who agrees with you: 1) Is it appropriate to require taxpayers to provide health insurance for more than 45 percent of the children ...
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Socialized Medicine by Stealth: Panel Calls SCHIP Expansion ‘Bad for Kids, Families, and Taxpayers’

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The Senate Finance Committee moved this week to expand the role of government in our health care system by expanding SCHIP (the program that gives government health care to children in families with too much money to qualify them for ...
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Climate Change is a Human Issue

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From Stella Dulanya and Peyton Knight, a report on the latest Senate global warming hearing: Yesterday, National Center Senior Fellow Thomas J. Borelli, Ph.D., testified on behalf of the Free Enterprise Action Fund before the U.S Senate Committee on Environment ...
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Barbara Boxer’s Mean Left Hook

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From husband David, some personal observations from the most recent hearing on global warming in Senator Barbara Boxer's committee: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said that she wanted to continue hearing from all sides of the global ...
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The Senate’s Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

Gary Witzenburg, writing on The Car Connection, explains the difficulties car manufacturers and consumers will have if Congress adopts into law the Senate Energy Bill's requirement that Corporate Everage Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, reach 35 mpg by 2020 for ...
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CAFE Standards Hypocrite

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the prime sponsor of legislation adopted by the Senate Thursday that will require automakers, under Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), to drastically increase fuel economy to 35 mpg for cars and SUVs over ...
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Carbon Offsets: Why Pay More?

Get your discount carbon offsets here. (Yes, it's satire... I think!) Speaking of carbon offsets, am I the only one irritated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to "green the Capitol," in part by using taxpayer money to purchase carbon ...
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Bush Administration Law of the Sea Treaty Defense Inaccurate

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Husband David has a letter in today's Washington Times. It corrects factual errors in a June 13 op-ed by deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy secretary of defense Gordon England defending the Bush Administration's decision to ratify the ...
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Health Care Rationing, Government-Style

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Writing on his excellent personal blog, David Hogberg compares the myths promoted by advocates of government health care systems with the realities in nations that have such systems, noting that a half million Britons have now been told they will ...
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Global Warming Alarmism and Religion – Together at Last?

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From Peyton Knight: This is a summary report from last Thursday's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing titled, "An Examination of the Views of Religious Organizations Regarding Global Warming." In her opening statement, committee chairman Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) ...
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