BACKGROUND: The EPA this month announced a draft proposal to use a "cap and trade" model to regulate mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The President's political opponents immediately attacked the plan. A "cap and trade" model would ...
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Ed Haislmaier recommends an article in the German press defending Bush’s decision to limit bids on Iraq contracts to allies. The piece begins: Reconstruction in Iraq has begun in earnest, but many European firms are being left out. The United ...
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Jacques Chirac really, really hates manifestations of morality. He's now pushing for a law in France barring the wearing of headscarves by Muslims, yarmulkes by Jews and crosses by Christians in public schools. Chirac believes France is a secular state ...
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A good piece and wise advice, in my opinion, about how the Bush Administration should react to the results of the recent parliamentary elections in Russia. The piece, by the Heritage Foundation's Ariel Cohen, concludes: "Russia now has a Duma ...
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Our Ed Haislmaier contributes this link and comment: The AP Wire has the following (as Andrew Sullivan would call it), "money quote: "In Tikrit, about 700 people rallied in the center of town Monday chanting 'Saddam is in our hearts, ...
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From our executive director, David Almasi: I am one of the biggest supporters of private property rights out there, but let's call a Scrooge a Scrooge. The Hall family owns a piece of property on Main Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts ...
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From Time.com, this tidbit from the interrogation of Saddam Hussein: "When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, 'If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom ...
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Thanks to James Taranto's Best of the Web for pointing out this fascinating story. It begins: "Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, ...
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Words from Project 21 member Darryn “Dutch” Martin: Cincinnati is afflicted with another case of police brutality/racismitis. This time, events were caught on tape (please see Project 21 member Jerry Brooks' analysis of the racial ramifications). I may sound cold-hearted, ...
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BACKGROUND: The EPA this month announced a draft proposal to use a "cap and trade" model to regulate mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The President's political opponents immediately attacked the plan. A "cap and trade" model would ...
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