Maybe Jefferson Was No Democrat

The Insults Unpunished blog headlinines a quotation from Thomas Jefferson I've never seen before: "I think it is in our interest to punish the first insult; because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others." Bet no one will ...
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What Conservatives Think #010904: Single-Payer Health Care: Could America Do It Without Compromising Quality?

The Left Says: "...In countries with national health insurance, urgent care is always provided immediately. Other countries do experience some waits for elective procedures (like cataract removal), but maintaining the U.S.'s same level of health expenditures (twice as much as ...
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Tightening CAFE Standards Would Increase Congestion

More useful information from Mike Catanzaro at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: It's difficult to gainsay the intensity of feeling among environmental groups over CAFÉ. "The auto industry and their friends in Congress should stop holding fuel efficiency ...
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The American Enterprise: The Eight Myths of Recycling

A fascinating article, The Eight Myths of Recycling, from the American Enterprise Institute (written by Daniel Benjamin of PERC). I particularly liked "Myth 6: Recycling Always Protects the Environment." Part of it says: "Los Angeles has estimated that due to ...
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Tightening CAFE Standards Would Increase Congestion

More useful information from Mike Catanzaro at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: It's difficult to gainsay the intensity of feeling among environmental groups over CAFÉ. "The auto industry and their friends in Congress should stop holding fuel efficiency ...
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Were the 1980s the Decade of Greed?

Today's installment of What Conservatives Think tackles the question: were the 1980s the decade of greed? ...
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What Conservatives Think #010804: Reaganomics: Were the 1980s the Decade of Greed?

The Left Says: The 1980s were "a time of Reaganomics, burgeoning yuppies, and the Decade of Greed." Source: Source: Matt Lauer, NBC Today Show, December 30, 2003, as cited by the Media Research Center's CyberAlert of December 31, 2003. What ...
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Assuming the Global Warming Theory Turns Out to Be True, What Would It Take to Stop It?

Mike Catanzaro at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has, as usual, an informative insight on the global warming debate: Just what exactly is "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"? And at what level should we "stabilize" greenhouse ...
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“Everybody Knows” Disappearing Snow is America’s Fault

Interesting stats from the Guardian via the Daily Ablution blog regarding the number of nations in Europe that are meeting their mandated emissions-reductions targets under the Kyoto global warming treaty. Two, Britain and Sweden, are meeting the target, so far ...
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We’re Not Green at All — Just White

Executive director David W. Almasi notes that green groups are being accused of being monochromatic: Our friends at the African-American Environmental Association just released the results of a survey they conducted on the diversity of establishment environmental organizations. Well, they ...
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