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Fishy Business: The Bipartisan Effort to Shut Out Competition in the Salmon Industry

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Members of Congress from both parties are trying to keep the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from actually doing its job and approving a more efficiently farmed salmon that has already been determined to be safe from coming to market ...
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Borelli: Obama, Not Tea Party, Responsible for Credit Downgrade

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli notes that critics of the tea party movement are “all reading from the same script” when they unfairly refer to the historic lowering of the nation’s credit rating under President Obama’s watch as a “tea ...
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One Minute Video: Unemployment Viewed Another Way

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If you weren't already worried about unemployment -- though how callous you'd have to be not to be, I can't imagine -- watching this video would do it for you ...
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Deadbeat Britons Riot Seeking More Social Services, Thereby Forcing Cancellation of Some Social Services

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One of the things the rioters in Britain ostensibly want is more social services, paid for by their betters.* Today the taxpayer-financed National Health Service, which provides "free" health care to Britons without regard to whether they've ever worked a ...
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Washington Post Finds Room for Accuracy

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Last week, I chided The Washington Post's Jason Samenow for asserting that Washington, D.C. is in the midst of a record heatwave, given that determining this is all but impossible since DC's surface temperature readings have been taken at more ...
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Project 21’s Deneen Borelli: Credit Downgrade Due to Poor Compromise

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli says the decision by Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the credit rating of the United States is likely based on the recent debt ceiling compromise not offering a valid solution to government spending.  Deneen suggests ...
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Deneen Talks Spending, Suing and Social Networking on Fox News

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On the 8/6/11 edition of “America’s News Headquarters” on the Fox News Channel, Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli says that the lack of attention to out of control spending by President Obama and his supporters is a primary reason behind ...
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The Sad Truth About Media Coverage, and a Modest Plan for Reform

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The sad truth about media coverage is not just the bias, but the focus. The country has just had its credit rating downgraded for the first time ever. The cable networks are all over it. So do you suppose the ...
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The Government War on Lemonade Stands, Mapped (Plus One)

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The Freedom Center of Missouri has created a map showing the location of government-mandated closures of lemonade stands since 1990 (hat tip: Carpe Diem). The map is excellent, but is missing a 2003 Minnesota incident in which 7-year-old Mikaela Ziegler's ...
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Your Hamburger: The Newest Cause of Global Warming

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG), the Washington special interest outfit that pioneered such advancements as the “cell phones cause cancer” hysteria, is back and now they’re going after beef. The EWG has released a report calculating the carbon footprint of ...
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