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Washington Post Cheerleads Conversion of a Small Number of Evangelicals to Anti-Global Warming Activism

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Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post had a worthy entry in the category of wishful-thinking opinion-newswriting on page A1 of the Washington Post Wednesday, with her story "Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold." Based on the content of the piece, ...
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Power Line Asks About Journey Through Hallowed Ground

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Paul Mirengoff of Power Line has asked Senator John McCain what he thinks about the federal Journey Through Hallowed Ground legislation: Towards the end of the interview, I asked McCain about legislation recently proposed in the House that would use ...
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Missouri River Plan Hurt Local Residents

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In an effort to protect endangered birds and fish, a federal judge restricted the amount of dammed water allowed to flow into the Missouri River. As a result, water levels became too shallow for regional farmers to ship goods by ...
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Legislative Schizophrenia

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Monday discussing a particularly lethal form of legislative schizophrenia. Says Deneen: Congress can't seem to make up its mind: Does it support safer vehicles or oppose them?At ...
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Law of the Sea Debate Continues

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The conversation that began with Doug Bandow's article in the American Spectator on the law of the Sea Treaty, continued in the American Spectator's letters column and then moved to this blog goes forth with a rebuttal to husband David's ...
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Newsweek’s Climate Change Monstrosity

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Kudos to Marc Morano of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Minority Staff for surrendering several hours of his life in the cause of debunking an incredibly, almost jaw-droppingly bad article ("Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine," by Sharon Begley with ...
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No Such Thing as Free Health Care

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Joe Roche has a new column in the Lexington Herald-Leader, where he is a contributing columnist. In "'Sicko' a twisted view of health care system," he pretty much takes Michael Moore's movie apart. My favorite part: Canada is often touted ...
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Mental Health Parity: Stop the Lies

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David Hogberg hit the nail on the head with a blog post the other day about something that bugged me: Katharine Lyon, an advocate of increasing government mandates in private health care claiming that businesses will be glad to spend ...
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City Evicts Houseboat Resident for a “Biting” Wiener Dog

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One maverick resident of Riviera Beach, FL discovered the price of obstructing the city government's waterfront redevelopment plan, which would uproot thousands of local residents and businesses to benefit a private development company: repeated harassment by city henchmen, arrest, eviction ...
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SCHIP Expansion in Perspective

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Writing on the State Policy Network Blog, Tarren Bragdon puts the "do we need to expand SCHIP debate" in perspective, for Maine, at least. He cites figures showing that only 2.6 of Maine residents under 18 are uninsured and not ...
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