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Black Network Demands Black Judicial Nominee Be Judged on Her Competence

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Janice Rogers Brown, an associate justice on the California Supreme Court who has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 21. Members of ...
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The Night Writer’s Interesting Quote

This is an interesting quote that I have never seen before: It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson I found it at The Night Writer blog ...
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Dueling Plans for U.N. Reform

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Is Glenn Reynolds calling for U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations? That's one way to read the last line of this post -- but I'm not sure that's what he means. Glenn links to this piece by Austin Bay, who ...
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Shame on Andrew Greeley, Anti-Democrat, and Anyone Who Shakes His Hand

Consider just two sentences: I am suggesting that for President Bush to come to the edge of Russia (Slovakia) and preach about democracy to Putin is rude, crude and undiplomatic. It is an insult to Putin and to Russia and ...
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National Center Statement: National Center for Public Policy Research Statement on Congressional Travel

The National Center for Public Policy Research sponsored and paid for educational trips to Russia and to Great Britain in 1997 and 2000 that included, at our invitation, Congressman Tom DeLay, Mrs. DeLay and Congressional staff members. We were then, ...
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Medicare’s Fatal Weakness: Expensive New Technologies are Rationed, by Edmund F. Haislmaier

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Recent news stories -- such as the Washington Post's "Medicare to Cover Cardiac Device," which appeared at the time of the second Bush/Cheney Inauguration -- illustrate both the achievements of American medicine and the failure of Medicare to deliver its ...
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Portland Home Prices: Higher Than Necessary?

An Oregon Congressman apparently is offended by National Center Policy Analyst Ryan Balis' observation in the Washington Post that "smart growth" anti-sprawl policies in Portland, Oregon have tended to push housing costs higher. The Congressman responds with his own letter ...
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Michelle Malkin: Bone Marrow Donors Needed

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Michelle Malkin is publicizing a call for Type O blood donors to join a bone marrow registry in order to help a desperately-ill Marine. As my blood is Type O-, the "universal donor" type that is considered liquid gold to ...
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Prince Charles-Camilla Parker Bowles: Settling the Civil Ceremony Question

Far be it for me to suggest a possible compromise settlement to any of the controversies relating to the Prince Charles-Camilla Parker-Bowles wedding (royal controversies give the British press their raison d'etre), but I have a suggestion that could resolve ...
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Conservatism Not Splitting

I've been reading and hearing sentiments like this -- namely, that the conservative coalition is heading for a split between small-government "libertarians" and social conservatives for something like 25 years now. I assume it went on before that, but I ...
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