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NCPPR Senior Fellow Helps Clear the Air on Clean Water

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On the heels of congressional hearings in both the House and Senate, the Washington Examiner published a scathing editorial against the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA). The editorial came after National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith had a long ...
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Every Day is Arbor Day for Private Conservationists

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From Casey Lartigue, Jr.: Do we want more trees or more moralizing about trees? Today, in Washington, D.C. and other parts of the country, Americans will plant a tree. Coming on the heels of the political brow-beating of earlier this ...
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Project 21’s Bob Parks Finds Hippie Ethic Alive and Well in Eco-Philosophy

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From David Almasi: "If it feels good, do it" was a hippie mantra from 40 years ago. Coincidentally, the same time as Earth Day was created (and first celebrated on April 22, 1970). Just in time for Earth Day 2008, ...
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It’s Not History, It’s HBO

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From David Almasi: The Washington Post's Al Kamen poked fun at the ACLU and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in his April 16 column: The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers are heading ...
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Congressional Energy Diet Also Reduces Waistlines and Pocketbooks (Don’t Even Ask About Global Warming!)

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From David Almasi: The liberal leadership in Congress came to power in 2006 saying they had a solution to rising gas prices. Did that solution involve prices continuing to go up and taking the cost of food with them? When ...
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True Emancipation Would Be Something New to Celebrate

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From David Almasi: April 16 is a public holiday unique to the District of Columbia. It's "Emancipation Day" - the commemoration of President Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Compensation Emancipation Act in 1862. The Act freed the approximately 3,100 slaves ...
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Washington Post Gets Conservative Concerns About the ANC 20 Years Late, and Almost Too Late Altogether

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From David Almasi: An unsigned house editorial in the April 15 Washington Post is very concerned about post-election unrest in Zimbabwe, where, it seems, President Robert Mugabe is willing to do whatever it takes to remain in power despite indications ...
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Washington Post Treats Insipid Barbara Boxer Comment as News; Ignores Bigger Story Behind Bush’s Global Warming Speec

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I already knew Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wasn't a clear thinker, but I still had to chuckle at her quote in today's Washington Post article on climate change: The president's plan to have America stand by while greenhouse gases reach ...
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Hunters, Anglers, Boaters, Shooting Sports Enthusiasts and Others: Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act

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In a new paper for the National Center for Public Policy Research, Peyton Knight explains exactly how a new bill under consideration by Congress could make life difficult for hunters, anglers, boaters, shooting sports enthusiasts, users of all-terrain vehicles and ...
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EPA Jeopardizes Children in Potentially Dangerous Sludge Experiments

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Project 21's Deneen Borelli is not happy about the EPA and other federal agencies conducting de facto experiments on families in poor, black families: EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studie ...
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