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Senate Social Security Demagoguery

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The Social Security Choice blog has done an end run on the media near-blackout of the U.S. Senate's vote against the DeMint-Crapo amendment. The amendment called for an end to continuous raids on what millions of Americans mistakenly believe is ...
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Deroy Murdock: Hating Bush at Home, Hailing Our Troops Abroad

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Deroy Murdock has a powerful essay on NRO detailing the savagery of the left's hatred for George W. Bush. Deroy also links to this New York Post story in which the mayor of Tal' Afar (Iraq) thanks the troops of ...
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Global Warming Research Fears: Galileo Would Have Recognized the Feeling

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Kudos to the Canadians, as the Ottawa Citizen has published an article about University of Ottawa Science Professor Jan Veizer's new global warming theory. The article begins: A prominent University of Ottawa science professor says what we know about global ...
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Uninsured Americans: How Many, and How Do We Help?

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Matt at the Center for Faith in Politics blog disagrees with me on health care issues I raised when criticizing a New Republic editorial that makes this claim: Government isn't the best way to provide all Americans with health security ...
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Recycling Nuclear Fuel

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Physicists Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford, who are the star contributors of our Nuclear Policy Center, have a letter in this week's edition of the journal Nature (Nature 400) . The letter begins: We believe that your worry ...
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Endangered Species Act: A Tale of Two Editorials

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I read two newspaper editorials on Endangered Species Act reform today. One was written by editors of the multi-city Examiner who seem to like the original (1973) Endangered Species Act, but who took the time to look beyond name-brand environmentalist ...
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Universal Health Care: A Flawed Proposal

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The New Republic has a "by the editors" editorial in the March 20 issue calling on the government to provide "universal health care" (aka, socialized medicine). The piece minces no words, ending on this confident note: "Government isn't the best ...
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Confidential Source Use Tends to Harm Journalism

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About three months ago, I proposed to blogger Mark Tapscottthat we conduct an online discussion about media shield laws. (He likes them; I do not.) He agreed, but I dropped the ball, and he has been kind enough not to ...
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Standing Athwart History, Yelling “Go Go Go!”

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Pointed to it by Professor Bainbridge, I read the Los Angeles Times whatever on the supposed "conservative crackup." Mostly it was an attack on President Bush, and an unhelpful one it was, despite decent contributions from two people I don't ...
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Dangerous Pesticide Scares

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Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center gives quite a scolding to environmental scaremongers in his latest column (reprinted with permission): Endless Environmental Lies by Alan Caruba In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that, years ...
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