The news in this BBC story strikes me as a big deal: Mexico and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries. Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the move minutes after Venezuela said it was ...
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From the November 15 Wall Street Journal: Post-Kelo, conservatives made the case that the Supreme Court's ruling was a dangerous interpretation of the Constitution's takings clause. Now some liberals are catching on. "We don't need you on this one," said ...
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Based on this transcript excerpt published on the Political Teen blog, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times appears to be spending a lot of time thinking about George Bush's and Donald Rumsfeld's bodies ...
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Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe nails Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) for the latter's attacks on oil companies: What would you call a return of $850,000 on an investment of just $20? A windfall? A rip-off? If such a killing ...
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Based on my casual conversations with folks who are familar with Kelo v. New London (the case in which the Supreme Court claimed governments can take private property from one private entity and give it to another), few folks who ...
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The white-hating segregationists are at it again. Last week, one of their number put Maryland's black Lt. Governor Michael Steele in blackface, crudely attempting to claim that since Steele is conservative he's not truly black but a white man in ...
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Just Barely Inside the Beltway reports on a new possibility: Cell phones could be used to monitor traffic congestion, building a picture that could be used to help drivers avoid congested roads ...
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BACKGROUND: Both the U.S. House and Senate budget bills included a provision that would allow for oil drilling in a small fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  The Senate passed its budget bill last week, but leaders in the ...
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BACKGROUND: Both the U.S. House and Senate budget bills included a provision that would allow for oil drilling in a small fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  The Senate passed its budget bill last week, but leaders in the ...
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The Senate blamed oil executives for oil supply shortages Wednesday, while the House, finding its budget-saving measure held hostage by a tiny group of anti-drilling Republican moderates, decided to drop an effort to permit drilling for oil. From the Washington ...
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