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Washington Post on Kyoto: Three Sentences, None Accurate

From Wednesday's Washington Post: The [Kyoto] treaty is aimed at controlling global warming linked to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. It was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. Although the United States helped shape it, President Bush pulled the ...
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Journalists’ (and Bloggers’?) Shield Laws: What is a “Reporter,” Anyway?

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Balancing this favorable article by Joe Strupp in Editor and Publisher about the "reporter's privilege" to be partially except from subpoenas is this excellent one by Dan Ackman in Forbes. Editor and Publisher piece alerts us to bi-partisan legislation in ...
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Kyoto: At Least We’re Honest

This U.S. government report says Italian environmentalists are protesting because the U.S. has declined to ratify the Kyoto agreement. Meanwhile, this European Union report says Italy ratified Kyoto, but is not complying with it ...
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Pew Center: Kyoto is Merely Symbolic

The February 16 Washington Post has this quote about the Kyoto global warming treaty: "The greatest value is symbolic," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. No doubt that's just what the citizens of the ...
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Associated Press Watch: Channeling Jan Egeland

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Pretty much every loyal American, from the White House on down, scoffed at U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland when he said the U.S. was cheap. I've been critical of AP writer Charles P. Hanley for following the Sierra ...
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Grassroots Government: Internet Fixes for Government Accountability Problems

I posted Tuesday about Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation's suggestion that Congress should post the complete text of legislation on the Internet before it votes. Mark Tapscott of Tapcott's Copy Desk has taken that idea for a "grassroots government' ...
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Containing Sprawl: The True Cost

National Center Policy Analyst Ryan Balis has a letter in the Washington Post today on the cost of containing sprawl. As per usual with environmentalist schemes, the cost of "smart growth" anti-sprawl initiatives tends to be borne by those who ...
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Three Cheers

Three cheers for these doctors and lawyers ...
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First Annual Flat Earth Award for Truth-Telling on Global Warming

This is an award I would love to earn. But I have to admit that the three finalists are more worthy choices than I. Great men, all. And, alas, regardless of how hard I work to spread the truth about ...
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Regarding Ward Churchill: Abolish Tenure

Rarely do I criticize another for being old-fashioned, but I find the very notion of tenure distastefully medieval. Literally. In the Middle Ages there were few institutions offering scholars the opportunity to ponder -- not just few alternatives to universities, ...
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