A depressing bit of information from the Heritage Foundation: Most of America's senior citizens aren't bothering to find out what's going on in the Medicare debate. One snippet from the information in the Heritage Foundation WebMemo by Derek Hunter: * ...
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A New York Times editorial today says you can massively restrict energy production in the United States without killing even one job. Yeah, right. The New York Times staff apparently still is smoking the same stuff Stalin gave Timesman Walter ...
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An on-air reporter for WMAL Radio, a good station I listen to a lot, had an odd bit of news early this afternoon. Reporting on an incident in Fairfax County, Virginia in which unknown vandals spray-painted cars, apparently at random, ...
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Speaking of WMAL, here's a report from their website about the reaction fo Rush Limbaugh's fans to news of his drug dependency: By a nearly unanimous margin, Rush Limbaugh's listeners are sticking with the nation's No. 1 talk radio host, ...
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BACKGROUND: Management Information Services, Inc., a national economics firm with a client roster representing both business and environmental organizations,1 has released a study showing that passage of S. 139, the McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, would impede, or even reverse, the ...
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The United States government is criticizing the Putin regime in a reasonably strong statement (by diplomatic standards) today, says the Associated Press. The AP reports the arrest of the head of Russia's largest oil company, Yukos, in what are widely ...
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A lawyer quoted on Canadian TV has a good point about France: International lawyer Anne Baefsky said the French are playing a very dangerous game. "They want to have it both ways," she told CTV's Canada AM. "They started off ...
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Breaking news in Russia that seems to tell us a lot -- none of it positive -- about Vladimir Putin's commitment to democratic values and the rule of law. This exerpt is part of a long Associated Press report Saturday: ...
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So much for religious freedom in Russia. Vladimir Putin says Pope John Paul II can't visit Russia unless the Russian Orthodox Church agrees. Hardly likely! For more on events in Russia on the eve of the Bush-Putin summit starting this ...
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Another timely and valuable note sent over by Mike Catanzaro of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staff: According to a number of indicators -- GDP growth, a stock market surge, productivity gains, stable prices -- the economy is ...
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