When Hawaii was admitted to the union in 1959, there was an understanding among lawmakers, the American people and the territory's residents that Native Hawaiians would not gain the same legal status as American Indian tribes. That 45-year understanding may ...
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Let's keep everyone in the path of Katrina in our prayers. Addendum: Michelle Malkin has information on private relief efforts, and how to help the victims of the storm and flooding ...
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Peyton Knight, who joined The National Center's staff Monday as our new director of the John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, is making a plea for eco-sanity on our military bases. Our brave men and women ...
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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post found itself able to editorialize about Katrina's devastation without making wholly irrelevant digs at President Bush for being on vacation before Katrina hit Mississippi and Louisiana ...
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This Los Angeles Times story about Katrina devastation really brings home just how awful the post-Katrina situation is in Mississippi ...
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I see in the Washington Post that Cindy Sheehan is using the same PR agency the Nicaraguan Sandinistas used. Perhaps understandably, Fenton Communications doesn't brag about its work promoting Nicaragua's pro-Castro, anti-U.S. communist government. At least, not on its website ...
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Washington, D.C.- Rep. Richard Pombo's Endangered Species Act reform proposal wouldn't fix the ESA's fundamental flaws, would place endangered species at greater risk and would give federal officials even wider powers to violate property rights, says The National Center for ...
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In light of Pat Robertson's publicly-expressed view that the U.S. government should "take... out" Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Jesse Jackson says the Federal Communications Commission should ban discussions of assassinating foreign leaders on U.S. "airwaves." Robertson's comments, of course, were ...
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Says Project 21's Mychal Massie: I neither apologize for nor shrink from my comments comparing the beliefs of Judge John Roberts, James Madison and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To suggest that I have in some way discredited Dr. King ...
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As long as I am writing about the National Journal's coverage of global warming, here's a perplexing quote from the chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt (2004 salary: $8.5 million), as reported in the National Journal cover story ...
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