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Galileo’s Interrogators had a Consensus

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Another noteworthy global warming article appears in Canada's National Post. By Terence Corcoran, this one says, in part: It is now firmly established, repeated ad nauseam in the media and elsewhere, that the debate over global warming has been settled ...
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Media Matters Misleads on CEI’s Horner, Kyoto & Global Warming

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Media Matters is criticizing the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner for saying, on the Fox New Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, that ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty was not a high profile for President Bill Clinton during ...
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Interesting

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Quin Hillyer, writing on the American Spectator Blog, is sharing his notes from a quite candid dinner conversation with Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
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World War II Gasoline Rationing Redux?

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Project 21 Senior Fellow Deneen Moore has a letter in today's Wall Street Journal: Regulate Gasoline, Create a NightmareIn regard to the June 5 editorial-page commentary 'Tradeable Gasoline Rights' by Martin Feldstein: Mr. Feldstein believes that the government should be ...
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Art Gallery Displays Junk, Mistaking it for Art

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A note from Ed Haislmaier, a member of our board of directors, was so funny I had to share it: I give you, below, the modern art world's version of 'man bites dog.'While stories about art gallery cleaning crews inadvertently ...
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Should We Keep Reducing Air Pollution?

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Writing in the Washington Post, Joel Schwartz of the American Enterprise Institute says: ...in the real world, the costs of air pollution control mean higher prices, lower wages and lower returns on investments, reducing the resources we have available for ...
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What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About Immigration

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Brief thoughts on immigration policy for the blog from husband David: When I recently had occasion to see the Sesame Place amusement park's policy on line cutting, I just couldn't help thinking of the current debate over immigration.The policy states ...
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AP Opposes Misleading the Public (Officially, Anyway)

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The AP is running an "analysis" by Pete Yost beginning: The decision not to charge Karl Rove shows there often are no consequences for misleading the public. I'd say the continuing existence of the Associated Press proves that just fine.However, ...
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Katrina Fraud Response: We Could Call It “Insurance”

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I have an idea for preventing problems like this. Some entrepreneurs could set up risk pools for people who live in hurricane areas, and other areas subject to weather. People could participate by sending funds to the risk pools, which ...
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Health Care Double-Take

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This Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story by Joe Fahy about a labor union rally in Pittsburgh promoting the expansion of Medicare benefits to "all U.S. residents" caused National Center Executive Director David Almasi to do a double-take. That's because the guy in ...
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