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Property Rights Wins: Taking Via Retroactive Zoning Struck Down by Maryland Court of Special Appeals

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Despite recent losses on the property rights front, especially the Supreme Court's Kelo decision this year, some successes can be celebrated. One is a victory for property owners in Prince George's County, one of Washington, D.C.'s bedroom communities, where a ...
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Global Warming Causing Global Cooling

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Possible impending global cooling is causing "alarm," says the UK's Guardian, and it may be caused by global warming. That sounds silly, but actually makes sense. Massively oversimplified, the article refers to a phenomenon in which melting Arctic water slows ...
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Putin’s True Colors

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A Boston Globe staff editorial condemns yet another poor decision by Vladimir Putin: A harsh law on nongovernmental organizations that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin coterie are pushing through a docile Duma shows Putin's true colors. This is ...
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Global Warming Causing Global Cooling

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Possible impending global cooling is causing "alarm," says the UK's Guardian, and it may be caused by global warming. That sounds silly, but actually makes sense. Massively oversimplified, the article refers to a phenomenon in which melting Arctic water slows ...
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COP-11 Global Warming Conference Report: Pew Center Admits Kyoto is Dead… Sort of

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Possible impending global cooling is causing "alarm," says the UK's Guardian, and it may be caused by global warming. That sounds silly, but actually makes sense. Massively oversimplified, the article refers to a phenomenon in which melting Arctic water slows ...
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Box Shadows for Your Website, Courtesy of Jeff

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Jeff Harrell shows how to use box shadows to liven up your web art, and has even assembled a little demo of the technique he uses that visitors to his site can download and use on their own sites if ...
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Religious Conservatives — Or Just Religious People?

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I'm involved in a very mild debate on the Center for Faith in Politics blog over religion, politics and money (a debate over religion, politics and money that has not descended into name calling -- miracle of miracles). Specifically, we ...
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Gas Taxes By State

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The Periodical has a map showing gasoline taxes on a state-by-state basis. New Yorkers top the chart by paying 63 cents per gallon in state (44.5 cents) and federal (18.4 cents) gas taxes combined. (As bad as that is, it ...
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Killing Rainforests — Kyoto Style

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Peyton Knight writes to say: New Scientist reports that the current push by the European Union and Britain to meet their Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction targets is "having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests."Both the EU ...
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Insider Iraq Info in New Talisman Gate Blog

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Robert Stevens of Alphabet City writes to recommend the new blog Talisman Gate by Iraqi writer and analyst Nibras Kazimi. Nibras is a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute, a highly-regarded think-tank, and a weekly columnist for the New York ...
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