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Senator Allen’s National Heritage Area Threatens to Disproportionately Harm Minorities

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Washington, D.C. - Legislation introduced by Senator George Allen (R-VA) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) to create a federal "National Heritage Area" that encompasses portions of Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania is likely to disproportionately harm minority families in ...
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New Report Warns Against Expansive New Regulation of ‘Invasive Species

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Washington, D.C. - Calls by some federal lawmakers to add burdensome new regulations to quarantine, to control or to kill so-called 'invasive species' are of dubious environmental value and represent a real threat to property owners, says a new report ...
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Real Men Don’t Sell Out

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Regarding this rumor, as reported by Time's Mike Allen... Bush's aides maintain that they're in no funk either. Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to ...
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We’ll Know Global Warming is No Longer a Problem When All the Clouds are Gone

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In an effort to fight global warming, California cites water vapor as a "pollutant." Hat tip: Greenie Watch ...
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Response to Senator Allen Regarding Property Rights and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area

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Washington, D.C. - The office of Senator George Allen (R-VA), speaking through the Richmond Times Dispatch, has responded to concerns raised on August 18 by the National Center for Public Policy Research regarding S. 2645, "The Journey Through Hallowed Ground ...
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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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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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