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Jean-Francois Revel’s Extraordinary Contribution

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Via Michelle Malkin comes the news that Jean-Francois Revel has died. Had he done nothing more than write his Cold War wake-up call "How Democracies Perish," his contribution to the world would have justly been called extraordinary -- yet he ...
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Earth Day Information Center: The History of Earth Day

April 22, 2006 marks the 36th anniversary of the first observance of Earth Day. Former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), Earth Day's co-founder, said he modeled Earth Day on anti-Vietnam War demonstrations called "teach-ins" that then were common on college ...
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Carl Bernstein Reports: Drudge Report’s Comment Section Favors Senate Investigation of Bush

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Does the Drudge Report have a comments section? I ask because I've never noticed one, yet on "Washington Post Radio" this morning I heard journalist Carl Bernstein describe the comments on the "right wing" Drudge Report as favoring the creation ...
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Universal Health Care Says: Tattoo Removal, Yes; Life-Saving Cancer Drugs, No

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I've written (see here, here and here for recent examples) often on the problems with so-called "universal care" medical systems. Now National Center board member and Heritage Foundation health analyst Ed Haislmaier writes to point out an especially ludicrious example ...
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Biblical Environmental Stewardship: Defining the Mandate

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A report from Peyton Knight: Before a packed audience today on Capitol Hill, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA), along with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the Institute on Religion and Democracy held a lunch ...
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Britain’s “Universal Care” Health System Puts Quotas on Referrals

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The London Times reports that Britain's National Health System has a secret rationing plan: Doctors are being given a ceiling on the number of patients they can refer to specialists. Says the newspaper: Patients are being denied appointments with consultants ...
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Labor Union Spending: Party City on the Workers’ Dimes

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The Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Michael Reitz reveals eye-popping facts about labor union speanding: ...In 28 states around the country, workers can be required to pay for union representation as a condition of employment... ...in 2005 labor unions spent $7.3 million ...
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Vanity Fair’s Environmental Silliness

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From the Department of Silliness: A magazine dedicated to clothes and makeup and the dissolute prancings of the Manhattan and L.A. elite decides to focus on climate change by selecting a group of celebrity party-attendees and praising their meaningless, often ...
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Bellevue College’s Condoleezza Quiz (Updated)

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From National Center Executive Director David W. Almasi: Reverend Wayne Perryman of Mercer Island, Washington received disturbing news from a member of his congregation who is a student at the local Bellevue Community College. The student found the following question ...
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Earmarking Travel to Disneyland and Space

The National Taxpayers Union is wondering if federal taxpayers should be forced to pay for a superfast train between Las Vegas and Disneyland. Travel seems to attract the attention of earmarkers. One of the projects of the Institute for Scientific ...
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