The Campaign for America's Future is sponsoring a "what is a progressive?" contest. The group accepted entries until May 24 and has now whittled the entires down to a "top ten." Web visitors are invited to vote on the best ...
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The National Center's Ryan Balis attended a Heritage Foundation event on the Hawaii sovereignty issue, and has sent along a summary for those who may be interested: The Heritage Foundation held a luncheon Friday afternoon to discuss Senate bill S.147, ...
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I've often read that plants grow better when exposed to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide. Yet, when the Associated Press mentions the subject, what it says is: Global warming boosts poison ivy. The AP report, as published May 29 by ...
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The Apple Computer "Apple Store" webpage says 'Apple is committed to providing assistance to its customers with special needs,' but don't believe a word of it -- at least, not if you're short. That was the experience my soon-to-be-six son ...
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The Other Club describes what a sixteen-hundred percent tax increase buys you: The opportunity to sit by for weeks, officially helpless, while your 18-month-old daughter screams in terrible pain. More details here, including comments from others living the nightmare ...
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Why don't the Canadians just x-ray transsexual suspects? Oh, never mind, it wouldn't be practical -- in Canada, medical procedures take six months ...
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Mychal Massie of Project 21 sent over a note about today's gunfire alarm at the Rayburn House Office Building: Thankfully today's scare at the Rayburn Building amounted to nothing. However, there are two very important points worth mentioning.The first is ...
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Newsweek's Howard Fineman says: If you want a date to mark the beginning of the end of the Bush era in American life, you may as well make it this one: May 25, 2006. The Enron jury in Houston didn't ...
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As a postscript to this post by Professor Bainbridge, which I agree with entirely, here's a thought. In the interest of protecting the lives of responders, who sometimes risk life and limb to rescue people who very often ought to ...
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Ed Haislmaier has pointed me toward a macabre story on the ABC News webpage. The photo of the cupcakes is bad enough, but the Hoffa steak salad has especially unappetizing connotations. The two photos of Brian Ross that appeared above ...
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