An e-mail from Mike Catanzaro over at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee raises some very good questions about polling done on a global warming bill the U.S. Senate voted on last week: One of the many canards about ...
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A note from our executive director, David Almasi: I'd love to have a bigger television, but I bought the biggest one I believe my family can afford. Today the Washington Post discusses the long-awaited move of some public housing tenants ...
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Call the police in Florida and you might get sued. Because of the repeal of a little-known state law, if a police officer or firefighter is injured while responding to a call, he can sue for damages. Says the Palm ...
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Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle has identified with pinpoint accuracy the key stumbling block in the pending Medicare legislation. He repeated that Democrats want to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, but added: "if we're going to change the character ...
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A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Not many people can boast resumes like Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor's. Unfortunately, discrimination plagues him in ...
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A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Ever wonder why the ...
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  A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. I noticed him first. We were on our way to church when a ...
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From National Center executive director David W. Almasi: Utah Governor Mike Leavitt was finally confirmed to become the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on October 28. He was confirmed by a vote of 88-8, with four members not ...
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Putin says his #1 concerns are establishing the rule of law and economic development. You be the judge. Financial Times, 10/27/03 The Moscow stock market plunged more than 10 per cent on Monday after the arrest of the head of Yukos, ...
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The Washington Post is saying it better than I can: Washington Post, 10-27-03: “…Khodorkovsky had the additional misfortune of being the last surviving oligarch. For those who have not kept up their Russian, ‘oligarch’ is a term of art for ...
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