Scared silly over climate change

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:30 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it terrifies our kids.

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Do You Know the Preamble to Your State Constitution?

Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:24 AM EDT

Is the United States a religious country? What did the people in your state think when they ratified your State Constitution?

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Manifesto for Banana Republicans

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 5:20 PM EDT (Campaign Standard)

Torture is an evil thing. There are, however, many tortured people in the world outside Guantánamo Bay. (Some are right outside, in Cuba.) These people are innocent of any wrongdoing or suspicion of wrongdoing or knowledge of wrong-doers or even of capacity to do wrong.

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The Nature of Conservatism

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (PTBC.CA)

The terms "liberal" and "conservative" are bandied about by many who fail to understand the crucial difference between them. Many believe the difference lies in the liberal's willingness to support government spending. But that explanation falls short.

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Memorial Day Salute

Fri May 22, 2009 2:06 PM EDT

This Memorial Day, Let's not forget. Our President needs to review his history books. Maybe he thinks we are arrogant because we have taken up too much prime property in Europe to bury our dead!

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Attention Union Workers: Employers Want to Give You Raises, but Union Bosses Say "No"

Seeded on Sat May 16, 2009 11:17 AM EDT (Center for Individual Freedom)

Shouldn't hardworking and dedicated unionized employees be allowed to earn bonuses, raises or other merit-based rewards from thankful employers? Especially during these tight economic times, when productivity and efficiency are at an even higher premium?

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Troy's celebrated solar house left in dark

Seeded on Sat May 16, 2009 11:08 AM EDT (Teh Detroit News)

Troy -- It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement -- a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups.

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Eat the Tigers!

Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 2:45 PM EDT (Jewish World Review)

In India, China and Russia, there were once 100,000 wild tigers. Today, only a few thousand survive. They've disappeared because poachers kill them to sell crushed tiger bone, which is made into a paste that is supposed to kill pain.

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Dinosaur Demise Came 300,000 Years After Crater, Scientists Say

Seeded on Tue May 5, 2009 11:47 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

This summary is from the GreenWatchAmerica blog and is spot on!

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The Extortion Economy

Seeded on Fri May 1, 2009 1:16 PM EDT (CFIF.ORG)

Last fall, as the U.S. economy seemed to be issuing its death rattle, a representative from Credit Suisse received a call from the Federal Reserve.

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Prohibition spawns drug violence

Seeded on Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (Jewish World Review)

Politicians gave us prohibition and created the conditions in which violence pays. This doesn't excuse those who commit it, but the fact remains that a legal drug market would be as peaceful as the beer, wine and whiskey markets.

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Put Cap-And-Trade In The Trunk, Where It Can't Cause Any Trouble

Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:10 PM EDT (Investor's Business Daily)

Aimed at reducing our country's greenhouse gas emissions, a cap-and-trade policy is well-intentioned.

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Wealthy to Poor: Here's Your Cardboard Cooker

Seeded on Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:54 PM EDT (Greenhellblog)

Wealthy to poor: Here's your cardboard cooker Steve Milloy April 9, 2009

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State Slaps Dr. Do- Good

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:37 PM EDT (New York Post)

Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News by James W. Harris Gov't Wrecks "Dr. Do-Good's" Low-Cost Health Care Plan Build a better mousetrap and... the government will beat a path to your door -- and shut it down.

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How Can Greens Make Themselves Less White?

Seeded on Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:17 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY A few days after Barack Obama's inauguration, the newly appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, gave an interview to Essence magazine. Ms.

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Greens seek to shut down coal plants

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:16 AM EDT (Green Hell Blog)

Moving on their success in slowing, if not halting the construction of new coal-fired power plants across the country, the green are setting their sights on existing plants.

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A Front-Page Story: President McCain's First 50 Days

Seeded on Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:50 AM EDT (Jewish World Review)

Suppose Sen. John McCain, rather than Sen. Barack Obama, won the presidency but made the same decisions and pursued the same goals to turn around the economy.

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False Solutions and Real Problems

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:26 AM EDT (Jewish World Review)

Someone once said that Senator Hubert Humphrey, liberal icon of an earlier generation, had more solutions than there were problems.

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Making It

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:23 AM EDT (Jewish World Review)

I'm sick of hearing that America is no longer a land of opportunity. Even before the current recession, politicians and pundits were constantly wringing their hands about the "demise of the middle class."

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Berkeley Professor: Gore an Exaggerator; No Record of Iceless Polar Bears

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:30 PM EDT (NewsMax)

A liberal, Prius-driving Berkeley professor says Al Gore is exaggerating global warming facts, coal is a good source for energy, Thomas Friedman is wrong about global warming and storms, and hybrid cars won't help save the environment. Seriously.

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Letter From an Entrepreneur

Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:05 PM EDT

To All My Valued Employees,

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A Heated Exchange: Al Gore Confronts His Critic(s)

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:48 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Former Vice President Al Gore repeated his message that climate change is a planetary emergency at the WSJ's Eco:nomics conference in California.

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When Journalists are bad for the economy

Seeded on Mon Mar 9, 2009 1:27 PM EDT (http://jackchambless.blogspot.com)

When Journalists are bad for the economy...

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FHFA Director James B. Lockhart Statement On "Making Home Affordable" Program

Seeded on Wed Mar 4, 2009 10:25 AM EST (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

"FHFA was pleased to work with the White House, the Treasury Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, other regulators, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the development of the 'Making Home Affordable' loan modification program that Treasury announced to …

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'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

Seeded on Thu Feb 5, 2009 10:38 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirem …

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