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Ohio Supreme Court Smacks Down Effort to Eject Families from Homes

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The City of Norwood, Ohio designated a community of 99 well-maintained homes and businesses as "blighted" so that a real estate developer could build offices, condominiums and stores in its place. Although the vast majority of the community had been ...
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Debunking Nonsense Related to Disaster Losses and Climate Change

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From Prometheus, back in November: Debunking nonsense related to disaster losses and climate change is getting to be a full time job...Reuters reports: Losses from extreme weather could top $1 trillion in a single year by 2040, a partnership of ...
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Should Most of America’s Kids Be on the Dole?

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See where you stand regarding the current debate on health insurance coverage for children, and then see who agrees with you: 1) Is it appropriate to require taxpayers to provide health insurance for more than 45 percent of the children ...
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“A Virtual Blank Check to Condemn Private Property”

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In a case that received a national outcry against property rights abuse, Susette Kelo took the City of New London, Connecticut all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kelo fought to save her dream home whose property the city ...
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Socialized Medicine by Stealth: Panel Calls SCHIP Expansion ‘Bad for Kids, Families, and Taxpayers’

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The Senate Finance Committee moved this week to expand the role of government in our health care system by expanding SCHIP (the program that gives government health care to children in families with too much money to qualify them for ...
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Silly Global Warming News

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Barbra Streisand, who, according to a spokesman, has been funding efforts "to deal with" climate change since the late 1980s, was travelling around Manchester, England in "a limousine accompanied by her entourage in 13 tractor-style trailer trucks, before being whisked ...
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Let It Sit, Mayor Bloomberg, Let it Sit

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Showdown in New York: Spurred in part by information in a new report by New York State Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky (D), the state legislature is worrying that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to charge drivers $8 to enter lower Manhattan ...
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Emergency Room Care Quality Harmed by 1986 Federal Law

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John S. O'Shea, M.D. of the Heritage Foundation has a new paper on emergency health care access for low-income individuals that explains how a federal law adopted in 1986 is "a major barrier to timely and appropriate emergency medical care" ...
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Best Live Earth Comment Award

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...goes to Lubos Motl, who quipped: Hundreds of musicians have demonstrated that there is much stronger consensus about global warming among rock musicians than among scientists... And yes, he's a scientist, so he can say so ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Calls for Criminalizing Differences of Opinion

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that politicians who disagree with him on climate issues are committing "treason." As reported by Newsday, speaking at Al Gore's Live Earth in new Jersey, Kennedy shouted "This is treason. And we need to start ...
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