Category: Articles

Galileo’s Interrogators had a Consensus

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Another noteworthy global warming article appears in Canada's National Post. By Terence Corcoran, this one says, in part: It is now firmly established, repeated ad nauseam in the media and elsewhere, that the debate over global warming has been settled ...
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Media Matters Misleads on CEI’s Horner, Kyoto & Global Warming

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Media Matters is criticizing the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner for saying, on the Fox New Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, that ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty was not a high profile for President Bill Clinton during ...
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Health Care Double-Take

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This Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story by Joe Fahy about a labor union rally in Pittsburgh promoting the expansion of Medicare benefits to "all U.S. residents" caused National Center Executive Director David Almasi to do a double-take. That's because the guy in ...
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For Al Gore, the Truth Really Is Inconvenient

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Tom Harris takes apart Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" in an article in Canada's National Post. It begins: Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the ...
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Group Calls for Senate Finance Committee to Investigate Treasury Secretary-Designate’s Role in $60 Million Land Deal

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is calling on the Senate Finance Committee to investigate Goldman Sachs Fund CEO and Treasury Secretary-designate Henry J. Paulson, Jr.'s role in his firm's $60 million Chilean land deal that ...
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“Hallowed Ground”: A National Heritage Area History Lesson

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Peyton Knight and I have a disagreement. He thinks the biggest problem with National Heritage Areas is that they spur federal interference in local decision-making and undermine the private property rights of small landowners. I, on the other hand, am ...
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“Smart Growth” Policies Hurt, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #539 /
It is not uncommon to find workers in the Washington, DC area who suffer a two-hour commute each way to their jobs.  Some travel from as far as West Virginia or Pennsylvania.1  In many cases, the cause is not preference ...
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The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area: An Example of How Pork-Barrel Politics Can Threaten Local Rule and Property Rights, by Peyton Knight

National Policy Analysis #540 /
Just one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's dreadful Kelo v. City of New London decision that sparked a national outcry against government eminent domain abuse, some in Congress are preparing to bring a new threat to property owners in ...
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Wondering About the New Republic

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David Hogberg, writing for the American Spectator, wonders about a certain lowbrow cast to the New Republic lately. Specifically, David wonders if TNR is attempting to recoup circulation losses by imitating the Daily Kos ...
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Native Hawaiian Act: E Pluribus Unum No Longer?

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The National Center's Ryan Balis attended a Heritage Foundation event on the Hawaii sovereignty issue, and has sent along a summary for those who may be interested: The Heritage Foundation held a luncheon Friday afternoon to discuss Senate bill S.147, ...
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