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Pombo Proposal Wouldn’t Gut the Endangered Species Act: It Could Give it Formidable New Teeth

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Critics of Rep. Richard Pombo's Endangered Species Act reform initiative --critics such as the Center for Biological Diversity -- are simply wrong when they claim it would gut the Endangered Species Act, says The National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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On Endangered Species: RightMarch.com or ModerateMarch.com?

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Why is RightMarch.com asking visitors to its website to send their Congressmen a pre-written letter ("As your constituent, I'm writing to urge you to support the 'Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act,' Rep. Richard Pombo's effort to reform the Endangered ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Denounce Move Toward Ebonics in California Schools

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San Bernardino Pilot Program Would Harm Students' Professional Prospects A pilot program injecting controversial "Ebonics" slang into the curriculum of two San Bernardino, California public schools would harm students more than help them, say members of the black leadership network ...
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Toyota Should Apologize for Sponsoring Racially-Divisive Speaker

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Black Activist Group Joins NLPC in Calling on Automaker to Cease Financial Support for Racist and Anti-Semitic Programs Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are demanding that Toyota executives apologize for subsidizing a speech by the Nation of ...
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Health of Supreme Court Justices: Is It Our Business?

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There are a number of interesting questions raised in this Washington Post story about the health of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The article raises other questions, but some that occur to me are: * Is it ethical for the head ...
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Congratulations to Ron Nehring

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Congratulations to former National Center staff member Ron Nehring, who who has been appointed to the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Says a statement released by the governor's office: Ronald Nehring, 35, of El ...
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No FEC Regulation of Bloggers, Conservative Leaders Say

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Jim Boulet of the group English First has organized a letter by conservative leaders to the FEC, urging the FEC not regulate what Americans say on their websites and blogs and in their e-mails. Among other things, the letter says ...
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Arlen Specter’s Weird Idea

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This, from the New York Times, is weird: Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, suggested on Sunday that President Bush could name Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring from the Supreme Court, to the position of chief ...
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FEC Hears Bloggers’ Bid to Share Media Exemption

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A revealing excerpt can be found in a Washington Post storyTuesday about bloggers and the FEC: "Bloggers want it both ways," said Carol Darr, head of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at George Washington University. "They want ...
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Congressional Action: London Sympathies

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The Senate, returning from recess, approved on July 11 S. Res. 193, a resolution introduced by Majority Leader Bill Frist expressing sympathy for the people of Great Britain following the terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005. The resolution was sponsored/co-sponsored ...
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