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Congressional Black Caucus Katrina Relief Funds Remain Undisbursed

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Mychal Massie hopes folks will join A. M. Siriano in sending letters to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, asking the Caucus to distribute the reported estimated $400,000 it received in donations to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Marc Morano of ...
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It Grows

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Michelle Malkin's War on Blogs was a good read in December, but read it again while thinking about the fact that the mainstream press told all of us the West Virginia miners were safely rescued yesterday. If the mainstream press ...
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Environmentalists v. Alito

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Peyton Knight recommends a piece by law professor Jonathan Adler, who shows that environmental groups are bending over backwards to find ways to attack Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito ...
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What Does A “Reputable Scientist” Do Instead?

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A Time story by Michael Lemonick about Woo Suk Hwang's apparently-fraudulent stem cell research, The Rise and Fall of the Cloning King, contains this paragraph: In order to clone an adult, you need to put one of its cells into ...
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Smoking Saves Government Money

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I enjoyed this new George Will column about tobacco lawsuit abuse, perhaps because I made some of the same points myself, back in 1999: ...the government does not lose money from smoking; it profits from it. ...because smokers have an ...
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House Hearing Finds Approval for Health Security Accounts, With Some Dissent

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Our David Hogberg attends a House hearing on Health Savings Accounts, and comes away with a few observations: A good hearing on HSAs took place Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, with CEOs from various businesses, such as ...
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Reliability of Medical Journals

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Bizzy Blog notes a warning from an American Cancer Society Professor at Harvard Medical School: ...doctors should take all studies published in "prominent medical journals" with "skeptical caution." Read it in conjunction with this BizzyBlog post from December 17, 2005: ...
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Eminent Domain Abuse — Again

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The Indianapolis Star reports on yet another eminent domain abuse case: This time, a family business that has been operating since 1938 is being threatened so a sports stadium can have a larger parking lot. Hat tip: Radley Balko ...
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Tax-Subsidized Lobbying on Social Security

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Writing for the National Legal and Policy Center, John Carlisle describes how the main group opposing Social Security rescue and modernization received over $80 million from five federal departments last year ...
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NCPA: Reducing Retirement Age

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The National Center for Policy Analysis takes a look at a National Bureau of Economic Research study on the fiscal implications, in 12 countries, of raising hte retirement age. Amazingly, they are discussing raising it only to 65 ...
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