The Los Angeles Times and Harper's have a bit of egg on their faces. The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Kitty Kelley last week claiming that no one in George W. Bush's extended family -- daughers, neices or ...
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read this. Labels: Climate, Environment ...
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Willisms describes our current Social Security system: The government confiscates your money, keeps it for decades, gives you back a terrible return on your money, then taxes you for the privilege. (Until the system goes bankrupt, that is.) Labels: Social ...
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If you follow global warming debates, you've heard how environmentalists and their media allies predicted global cooling in the 1970s, only to reverse course in the 1980s. Well, everything old is new again. Russian scientists are now predicting global cooling, ...
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The current pro-ethanol fad in the United States apparently is a factor in making poor Mexicans cut back on corn tortillas, a dietary staple, says a January 27 Washington Post article by Manuel Roig-Franzia: Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off ...
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Another big business wants a handout from taxpayers: The owner of the Washington Wizards has asked the District for $50 million to renovate Verizon Center, and city officials are discussing whether to honor the request and pay for it with ...
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President George W. Bush mentioned the importance of filling vacancies in our judicial system with qualified nominees, but he failed to use his State of the Union Address to discuss the problem of liberal obstructionism of these nominees in the ...
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The National Center's health policy analyst, David Hogberg, is impressed by Paul Krugman -- by Krugman's mastery of spin, that is. Here's David's look at the way Krugman is covering some of President Bush's recent statements on health care reform: ...
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I notice that Senator Barbara Boxer's press release, reprinted below, does not include a conflict of interest disclosure by the businesses that signed this agreement, detailing their financial interest in passage of the legislation: Boxer Hails Landmark Agreement By Industry, ...
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...but when he says "the settlement of Jamestown... marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth," he's forgetting that the first European settlement in what would become the ...
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