Category: Articles

Possibilities

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By creating a blog but not allowing links to it, and creating content non-paying visitors cannot read, the New York Times management appears to be putting their desire for revenue over their interest in being read. Which means that maybe, ...
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Earmark Scandal? DOJ Reportedly Investigating WV Congressman Following Nine-Month National Legal and Policy Center Investigation

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Despite significant blogosphere attention to the dubious (or, at the very least, excessive) Congressional practice of "earmarking," I'm not seeing a lot of attention on blogs today about this press release from the National Legal and Policy Center: NLPC Complaint ...
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Save the Planet: Drive an SUV

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From Peyton Knight: A marketing research firm has announced the results of a two-year study that shows hybrid vehicles are more "energy expensive" over their lifetime than comparable non-hybrid vehicles and even a Hummer H3. Says Art Spinella, president of ...
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Black Activists Commend White House Action in Darfur Crisis

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With negotiations to resolve the human rights crisis in the Sudanese province of Darfur at an impasse, members of the black leadership network Project 21 applaud the Bush Administration for its work to promote human rights and stop further violence ...
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AFL-CIO Official: “The Whole West Was Part of Mexico”

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The current (April 10) issue of Time magazine features a brief commentary on immigration by an official of the AFL-CIO: BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO The key problem is making felons out of everyone who is here ...
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Panel Not Happening: Is the Mandatory Program Necessary?

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Stacked-deck events like this would never happen if the GOP controlled Congress: March 28th, 2006 29 PANELISTS INVITED TO PRESENT DETAILS ON PROPOSALS AT ENERGY COMMITTEE'S BIPARTISAN CLIMATE CONFERENCE Twenty-nine panelists have accepted the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee's ...
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Mike Crapo on Social Security: Fix Now, or Wait for Catastrophic Financial Crisis?

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After my March 22 post about the March 16 defeat of the DeWine-Crapo Social Security amendment, Laura Thurston Goodroe of Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)'s office alerted me to a recent article by the Senator on the subject. Some excerpts: During ...
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Social Security Reform Critics Often Close Eyes to System’s Problems

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A typical e-mail of those I received from those who were critics after my March 22 post about the March 16 Social Security vote in the U.S. Senate: About 80% of the American public trusts the views of the AARP, ...
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Improve the ESA with Property Rights Protections

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The National Center's environmental and regulatory project held a briefing on Capitol Hill today, in conjunction with the Capital Research Center. Happily, Hill interest in the possibility of improving the Endangered Species Act in a manner that protects property rights ...
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Global Warming and Polar Bears: One Sound Decision Deserves Anothe

Peyton Knight sent this over: At a United Nations meeting in Paris last week, the Bush Administration told the U.N. World Heritage Committee that it should not add new sites to its list of endangered places based on the theory ...
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