Just for fun, I put the words "apologize" and "miner" in Google News to see if any news outlets had run the phrase "we apologize for falsely reporting the miners were rescued alive," or something similar. One hit. Admittedly, Google ...
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Joel Rosenberg's blog is one to follow for analysis of political events in Israel following the incapacitation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Joel, an old friend, is writing temporarily from Egypt. He is a New York Times best-selling novelist now, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Message from David and Amy Ridenour If success can be measured by how much one drives the liberals up a wall… …our programs are very successful indeed. In recent months, your National Center for Public Policy Research has been attacked ...
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Americans may believe that when they pay their Social Security taxes, the federal government sets that money aside to finance their public pension benefits. Don't bet on it. In fact, Uncle Sam immediately pays most of that money to today's ...
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President Bush has encountered nearly unanimous opposition from Democrats on Capitol Hill who reject his plan to allow Americans to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in personal retirement accounts. However, some Democrats have embraced this idea in ...
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