Project 21 says the safety of police officers is more important an a favor for trial lawyers: Protecting Police Officers More Important Than Helping Political Donors, Group SaysCongress should not put the lives of law enforcement officials at risk to ...
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A cynic might view today's action in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee as a rare example of congressional efficiency. The committee managed to pass a bevy of pork-barrel legislation that simultaneously expands the ever-growing federal estate and threatens ...
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From Peyton Knight: A cynic might view today's action in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee as a rare example of congressional efficiency. The committee managed to pass a bevy of pork-barrel legislation that simultaneously expands the ever-growing federal ...
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Is there anything federal taxpayers aren't required to subsidize? This story explains that taxpayers help rural cell phone users pay their personal phone bills -- and how some want to "reform" this by changing the lmulti-billion welfare program, instead of ...
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Black and Hispanic organizations appear to be lining up on different sides of the Fairness Doctrine debate. Domingo Garcia, the national co-chairman of the civil rights commission of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), announced at the group's ...
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Except for the line about "demagoguery," the Los Angeles Times has a good editorial today on the Fairness Doctrine. Money quote: "Restoring the government's power to monitor broadcasters' fulminations and splice in opposing views seems more likely to tame speech ...
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The Detroit government low balled a local landowner for the sale of her property that it deceitfully said would be developed into a parking lot. As it turns out, the land was wanted for a hockey arena - a far ...
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Julian Ku, writing on the Opinion Juris blog, says Article 39 of Annex VI of the Law of the Sea Treaty may be unconstitutional: I believe this provision, Art. 39 of Annex VI, does raise a real potential constitutional issue ...
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A Trainwreck in Maxwell has a little fun with a Reuters report (reprinted on Bullwinkle's Blog, which has some fun of its own). Reuters is claiming that no hurricane hit Spain until 2004. I doubt readers of this blog will ...
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The Bush Administration is commended for announcing that it would veto any legislation reinstating the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." The Administration's announcement came following media reports of support for reimposing the Fairness Doctrine by Senators Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Barbara Boxer, ...
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