While tracking back some of the many visitors I've gotten lately who are looking for information on the Prince Charles-Camilla Parker-Bowles wedding (I bet many of you had no idea this was a British royalty blog!) I ran into the ...
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Our Earth Day Information Center is getting new publications online in preparation for Earth Day 2005, which is April 22. Just posted is a fresh list of quotes on environmental topics. My favorite quote of those we've collected this year ...
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National Review Online's Beltway Buzz column collects some quotes from surprising sources on the emptiness of the Social Security Trust Fund ...
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This is an interesting quote that I have never seen before: It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson I found it at The Night Writer blog ...
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Brian M. Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has an eye-popping new paper out, "The Top 10 Examples of Government Waste." Here they are: 1. The Missing $25 Billion 2. Unused Flight Tickets Totaling $100 Million 3. Embezzled Funds at the ...
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Captain's Quarters blog coverage of the (formerly) secret testimony of Jean Brault at (Canada's) Gomery Commission appears to be another historic milestone for the blogosphere. Harry Forbes at the Squaring the Boston Globe blog takes a look at the traffic ...
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Diversity magazine sent out an email today with the subject line: "Is the world ready for an African Pope?" I'd rephrase the question, and instead ask: "Is the world ready for an African Pope who isn't a liberal?" ...
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The London Sunday Times examines the evidence behind the suspicion that the Soviet government was behind the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in May 1981. If the trajectory of the bullet that hit the Pope, and/or the one ...
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"Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses." That's the premise of Stanford economist Thomas Sowell's book Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, originally published in 2000. Dr. Sowell, one of the ...
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If a homeless, drunken bum lying in a gutter says people shouldn't drink, is the message diminished because it comes from a homeless, drunken bum? Judges routinely sentence the guilty to public service. This can include the guilty speaking out ...
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