Washington, D.C. - Yesterday Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced an Endangered Species Act (ESA) reform bill that he claims will offer "incentives" to property owners to help recover endangered species.  However, according to The National Center for Public Policy Research, ...
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Dale Lezon of the Houston Chronicle interviewed me the other day about a pending court hearing in Houston. TV station KPRC-TV is attempting to squash a subpoena from the Harris County, TX DA's office requiring the station to surrender unaired ...
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Folks on the Hill are saying Congress may not act on ANWR this year. Same as last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, etcetera. Husband David has been saying that President Bush would serve the ...
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Richard Reeb, writing on The Claremont Institute's the Remedy blog, says: "In plain words, women need men's strength and resolution, even as men need women's civilizing." If men truly needed to be "civilized" by women, how could we accomplish it ...
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Who says environmentalists are anti-people? In Brazil, a new law has caused one town's mayor to propagate the most pro-people plan possible. (Say that three times fast.). The Commons Blog explains how a regulation imposed by Brazil's National Environment Council ...
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Via Ann's Fuse Box comes news of a story about a British fireman who sued his fire department after slipping on "unseen dust." The fireman won a fairly large sum, and as a result, his firehouse has banned use of ...
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Via The Night Writer, one of those silly quizzes which I nonetheless took, "Which Christmas Carol Are You?" My result: Apparently, I'm a traditionalist. Go figure. P.S. This is an Australian quiz. No sane American goes to the beach on ...
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Bizzy takes a look at "Global Whining: The Real Results of Montreal." A small sample of others blogging the U.N.'s effort to stand athwart nature and yell "stop": EnviroSpin Watch Political Ecology Irish Pennants Prometheus The Political Dogs Greenie Watch ...
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Deroy Murdock, a Project 21 member, NCPPR Distinguished Fellow and Scripps-Howard syndicated columnist, has some thoughts to add to Project 21's statement today about the scheduled execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams: Who knows how many people members of the Crips ...
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A funny Greenpeace quote is in a recent column by Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation. The quote is highlighted in italics: While most Kyoto enthusiasts have long argued the planet is getting warmer, a recent report in the journal ...
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