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Anti-Property Rights Initiative Gets Boost from Unlikely Source: Senator George Allen

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Washington, D.C. - Nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's shocking Kelo v. New London decision touched off a firestorm of bipartisan support for stronger property rights protections, some anti-property rights groups are receiving support from a surprising source:  ...
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With All the Zeal of a Green Torquemada

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An editorial in the Examiner looks at one of the biggest threats facing the planet: Politicians using the power of the state to investigate and intimidate people who disagree with their policy recommendations. Nice end line: "When you must resort ...
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How to Reform Health Insurance

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David Hogberg shares his thoughts about how to make health insurance better and more affordable: As I noted in the first post of my “Medicare for All: No Thanks” series, I'd take the U.S. health care system "over the U.K.'s ...
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Defamation as Tactic: Promoting Global Warming Alarmism by Misleading Readers

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I offer here a case study in the way journalists serve the cause of global warming alarmists -- in this particular case, by claiming scientists are associated with the fossil fuel industry using "evidence" even a superficial investigation would have ...
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I Wish I Knew

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Dear Mrs. Ridenour: There is yet hope for the Republic. That paragon of blog search engines, Technorati, informs me that your candor in posting my letter has met with bipartisan approbation. Now comes the hard part -- how to persuade ...
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Al Gore’s Do As I Say, Not As I Do Philosophy

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Author, Hoover Research Fellow and National Center board member Peter Schweizer has an op-ed in USA Today this morning that is probably giving headaches to former Vice President Al Gore. It seems that for all Gore's green talk, the former ...
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Think Progress Libel Update

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Think Progress has responded to my post yesterday accusing it of libel. Today, the group describes yesterday's libel in a grossly inaccurate way and then defends its strawman. Presumably, this is because Think Progress knows it cannot back up its ...
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Think Progress Libels Us

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I won't be investing in whichever insurance company provides libel insurance for Think Progress, that's for sure. In an online article published today, about a C-Span appearance by Bonner Cohen, Think Progress writes (under the heading, "Corrupt Establishment," no less) ...
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Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality No Way to Compare Health Systems

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The Christian Science Monitor printed a letter from Eric Mart of Concord on August 3. It said, in part: On Health Care Issue, Bass is Simply Wrong...I took to the internet and checked just where the United States stands in ...
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Medicare for All? No Thanks, Part V

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More of the "Medicare for All?" debate between our David Hogberg and Joshua Holland of AlterNet. From David Hogberg: Here are various odds and ends, in no particular order: UK Still a Strawman?: I've exchanged a few emails with Joshua ...
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