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Photos of the Washington DC Tea Party

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Continuing my post about the Tea Parties in New York City and Washington, D.C. attended by National Center staff, here are photos of the July 4 Tea Party in Washington. I estimate approximately 4,000 people attended the Tea Party in ...
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Something Odd to Be Grateful For

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Next time you are having a bad day, you can console yourself that at least you're not naked in public with a clothes dryer on your head. (Assuming you're not.) Dave Chapman of New Zealand learned to appreciate this the ...
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Quote of Note: Do We Now Need Government for Big Ticket Items?

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"Health is potentially a big-ticket item, but so is a house and a car, and most folks manage to handle those without a Government Accommodation Plan or a Government Motor Vehicles System -- or, at any rate, they did in ...
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Climate Policy: No Gain, No Pain

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Thanks to a head's up from Climate Depot, I read with interest the following on the weakness of the computer models used to predict climate from the Britsh Number Watch website: Most computer models are nonsense. This does not include ...
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National Center’s Tom Borelli Discusses Cap-and-Trade on Glenn Beck

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In case you missed it, here's the segment of Glenn Beck's Fox TV show from Wednesday night featuring Tom Borelli of the National Center for Public Policy Research and David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation. The topic is cap and ...
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Naughty Conservatives Shouldn’t Mind Votes for Waxman-Markey (Or So We’re Told)

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In an error-riddled column posted Wednesday on TownHall.com, the supposedly conservative Michael Gerson has a novel take on the Republican Congressmen who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill: He blames conservatives for minding. One of his reasons: "It is typical ...
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Look, Everybody, I Have a Hybrid!

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Not me; I don't, but when I saw this car in a parking lot, I thought, "Gee, do you suppose car companies believe hybrid buyers want the world to know they drive a hybrid?" I think I'll get a big ...
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Quote of Note: How to Control Health Care Costs

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"When President Obama tells you he's 'reforming' health care to 'control costs,' the point to remember is that the only way to control costs in health care is to have less of it." -Mark Steyn, "Being Taken Care of Weakens ...
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We’re Not Traitors, But Is Paul Krugman?

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Washington, D.C. - With the U.S. Supreme Court dealing a stinging blow to race-based employment practices, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are praising the Ricci v. DeStefano decision as a step toward removing the racial trappings of ...
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What Killed GM

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In this CNBC interview, Peter Flaherty of the National Legal and Policy Center argues that government regulation killed GM. Peter includes the role of government-backed unions in his analysis: ...[GM's management's] biggest shortcoming... was the failure to take on the ...
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