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Protecting Property Rights Protects Endangered Species

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Husband David writes to share news of a letter he and others recently delivered to U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), Chairman of the U.S. House Resources Committee. This letter was sent to let him know how deeply committed many people ...
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Global Warming Insurance Policy

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Physicist Gerald Marsh, a National Center Science Advisor, has a letter in the UK's Financial Times today. It responds to a June 9 FT editorial buying in to the "humans cause climate change" theory. Marsh says, in part: While the ...
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Socialized Medicine a Human Rights Violation?

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Canada has a problem. Its government-run health system is deadly. Now Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that the system's long waiting lists violate the Quebec charter of human rights and freedoms. More from the New York Times: The Canadian health ...
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Congress’ Most Partisan Members of the Last 25 Years

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Roll Call has assembled a list of "the top 10 most partisan Congressional 'street fighters' from the past 50 years." Roll Call, which admits this list is "somewhat subjective" (I'd call it very subjective), says its criteria were "Members who ...
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Maryland Christian Preschool Opportunity — A Rare Blog Endorsement

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I usually leave the personal stuff out of this blog because, well, it is not a personal kind of blog. But I am making an exception tonight to tout the preschool two of my three children attended over the past ...
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Endangered Species Act Can’t Work Without Property Rights Protections; 53 Groups Outline Reform Principles in Letter to Resources Chairman Pombo

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The Endangered Species Act has failed and will continue to fail so long as private property owners are penalized for good environmental stewardship, The National Center for Public Policy Research and 52 other leading national and grassroots organizations say in ...
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Regarding Deep Throat

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One of Richard Nixon's biographers doesn't believe the "Deep Throat" mystery is over, but Ben Bradlee, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are confirming it. Bradlee, Bernstein's and Woodward's top editor, said Tuesdaythat he didn't learn Deep Throat's name until after ...
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Nice Stem Cell Bias, Voice of America

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This Voice of America (?) report is headlined "U.S. Lawmakers Hand President Bush Defeat on Stem Cell Research." It begins: In a challenge to President Bush, the House of Representatives has approved legislation by a vote 238 to 194 to ...
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Catherine Crier: Filibuster Fight is About Creating a Theocracy

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Catherine Crier seems to believe that the battle over the "nuclear option" is actually a fight over whether the U.S. becomes a theocracy: The Senate filibuster fight between Republicans and Democrats is not over the majority's attempt to put more ...
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Nice Bias, AP

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From the lead paragraph of an AP op-ed news story: WASHINGTON May 23, 2005 - In a dramatic reach across party lines, Senate centrists agreed Monday night on a compromise that clears the way for confirmation of many of President ...
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