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CEI’s Comments Before The FCC On The EchoStar Case
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February 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Poised For A Broadband…
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Outside View: Caught En Flagrente Kyoto
It was the Washington Post that was first to expose internal Enron Corp. documents revealing the failed energy giant's disturbing relationship with one of the…
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CAFE Kills Both Jobs and Motorists
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CEI’s CAFE Litigation: Case 2
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Rush Hour
In a June 11 Rose Garden speech, President George W. Bush detailed his plan to address the perceived threat of man-made global warming. Wisely, the…
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CEI’s CAFE Litigation: Case 1
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Flip-Flopping On Small Car Safety
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Vol. VI, No. 2
Politics Enron Fallout Hits Global Warming Enron Corporation’s spectacular downfall has begun to affect the ongoing debate over U.S. global warming…
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Bailouts: Picking Winners and Losers
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Does CAFE Kill? Oral Remarks By Dr. Leonard Evans
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January 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Energy Policy Takes A…
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Financial Aid For Airlines Calls For Careful Decision
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Vol. VI, No. 1
Politics Japan Gets Cold Feet Japan, the host of the 1997 negotiations that culminated in the Kyoto Protocol, may now…
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Greenpeace on the Defensive
After years of playing offense, Greenpeace is now finding itself on the defensive. In addition to pulling much of the anti-Bush administration propaganda from its…
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Kyoto Through The Backdoor
Desperately seeking their Sally Field moment (“You like me! You really like me!”), with the likes of the New York Times and environmental pressure…
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Assisted Economic Suicide
A White House proposal under final consideration, for possible imminent release, would create a national inventory of certain naturally occurring gases — such as carbon…
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IMF Helped Sink Argentine Economy
When democracies create economic calamity, free markets get blamed. In today's world that means the International Monetary Fund, with U.S. backing, bails out lenders on…
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WHO Cares? World Health Organization Cares More About Its Own Life Than The Lives Of The Poor
Paul Dietrich was visiting Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, during its civil war in 1984, when an educational billboard taught him a lesson he never…
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Vol. V, No. 26
Politics Bush Administration Searches for Alternatives to Kyoto The Bush Administration is actively seeking an alternative strategy to the…
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Outside View: The choice: Kyoto or WTO?
Mid-November brought us reports from two international negotiations, whose sole common thread appeared to be each took place amid tight security in Muslim countries. These…
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Fight Rages Over Fate of Deadwood And Timber Sales
How much wood should a woodcutter cut if a woodcutter could cut wood? That debate has been raging in the western United States for more…
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Model Behavior: EPA Promotes False Climate Scares
Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station: The Environmental Protection Agency is telling the Northeastern United States to be very afraid. “Climate change” will…
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Red Tape and Tech
Lieberman Op-Ed in National Review Online During the tragedies of September 11th, our new technologies delivered extraordinary value. E-mails sent to handheld devices…
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Vol. V, No. 25
Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Administration Considering Climate Policies After a delay caused…
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Airport Insecurity
DeLong Op-Ed in National Review Online Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge recently told Chris Matthews that airplane security ultimately depends on the passengers,…
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Breathe Easy, But Not for Long
America's air quality continues to get better. A recently released Environmental Protection Agency report concludes that "since 1970, aggregate emissions of six principal pollutants tracked…
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CEI’s Comments Regarding the Energy Conservation Program For Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment
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Insecurity Blanket: Greens Preparing Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign
Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station September 11 brought to the fore numerous realities that in our comfort we had sublimated, including the…
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Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril
FREE-MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM Protecting the Environment via Private Property Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril…
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Free Market Environmentalism: Protecting the Environment Via Private Property
Full Document Available in PDF There is an alternative…
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December 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Two Faces of…
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Vol. 5, No. 24
Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Canadian Government Split on Kyoto Dissension over whether to…
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Privacy and Free Speech In The Political Landscape
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Privacy and Free Speech in the Political Landscape
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Uncle Sam’s Vaccines
Miller and Kazman Op-Ed in National Review Online The recent germ-warfare attacks are cause for concern, but so is one proposed government response:…
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Private Sector Is Better At Providing Airline Safety
Today, after weeks of stalemate in Congress, President Bush will sign the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. On the key sticking point, federalization…
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Vol. V, No. 23
Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The WTO and Kyoto While Kyoto watchers have…
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Punxsutawney Protocol: “World Reaches Warming Pact” Again, Only Not Really
Establishment-press reporting of Kyoto “global warming” treaty negotiations would embarrass even Bill Murray's character in the movie Groundhog Day. They laughably trumpet the same nonachievement,…
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Energy-Policy Jujitsu: Using 9-11 To Block Bush’s Proposal To Increase Our Energy Security
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is using the September 11 terrorist attacks to block President Bush's proposal to increase our energy security. (If this sounds…
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Let’s Clear The Air About Air Pollution Levels
America's air quality continues to get better, with particularly strong progress in the Chicago area. A recently released Environmental Protection Agency report concludes that…
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Settlement Implications For Microsoft
The settlement that Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice presented to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last Friday is good for the parties and represents…
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Government Goes Too Far On Microsoft Case
The 5 days since the release of the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have seen a barrage…
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U.S. Shouldn’t Seek Energy Independence
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have raised fears about U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil. It seems that nearly everyone believes that if the United…
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Vol. V, No. 22
Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Will Anything Happen in Marrakesh? New episodes of…
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A “Hole” Lot of Alarmism Should Be a Lesson in Marrakech
Scary autumn tales about the Antarctic ozone “hole” have become an annual media ritual that treats the phenomenon of ozone thinning as an ominous threat…
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Armed Crews Can Protect Airliners
DeLong Op-Ed in The Providence Journal <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Senate recently passed an airport-security bill that contains…
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November 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Military Readiness Threatened By…
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Precaution (Of A Sort) Without Principle
Miller and Conko Article in Priorities For Health: Volume 13, Number 3 Published by The American Council…
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Under Seige: One Reason Our Military Readiness Is Down: We Won’t Let Them Train
As it prepares sailors, soldiers, and airmen to face enemies abroad, the U.S. military also finds itself under new pressure on the homefront.
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Environmental Terrorists Deserve No Special Treatment
There is no shame in believing that those among the Left who most profess their “caring”, for animals, the environment, and other non-human “causes” are…
Orange County Register
No Price Controls
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Beware “Simple” Solutions
Gattuso Op-Ed In The USA Today<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Everyone agrees that action is needed to improve…
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Vol. V, No. 21
Politics Politics Japan Gearing Up To Ratify Kyoto Japanese government officials announced…
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If Pork Had Wings
Horner Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That didn't…
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Energy Independence: It Doesn’t Work
The Sept. 11 attacks have raised an old idea: By reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil, can we reduce America’s vulnerability to oil shocks that…
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FlashPoint #4: CEI Dispatch on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties
FlashPoint #2: CEI on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties Singleton Dispatch on Terrorism and Civil Liberties This is the fourth…
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Anonymity in America: Does National Security Preclude It?
Anonymous speech has proud roots stretching to the origins of America. Gentlemen calling themselves “Publius” wrote the Federalist Papers. Thomas Paine's Common Sense…
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What’s Wrong With Regulating Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
Full text available in PDF Format What’s Wrong With Regulating Carbon Dioxide Emissions? …
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Comments Regarding The Energy Conservation Program For Consumer Products And Commercial And Industrial Equipment
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Terrorists Shouldn’t Have a “Right to Know”
Washington, D.C., October 10, 2001—As Congress holds hearings on the security of our nation’s infrastructure, the Competitive Enterprise Institute warns that certain federal…
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New Threats to Financial Privacy Could Affect Foreign Investment in the U.S. and Hurt Economy
Washington, D.C., October 9, 2001—How much the federal government should be allowed to invade people’s privacy and infringe on civil liberties has been…
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Fear of Federalizing
Gattuso Op-Ed In The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Less than a month after…
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Vol. 5, No. 20
Politics Politics EU Bows to Industry Pressure The European Union has been devising an emissions trading scheme to…
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Liberty And Order: A Clear But Delicate Balance
In Defense of Freedom, an ad hoc group ("coalition" was thought to imply too much chumminess) of 130 organizations of wildly v Delong…
News Release
The Skeptical Environmentalist to Discuss Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol at Capitol Hill Briefing
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2001—Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish professor of statistics whose new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of…
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Fighting Terrorism, Preserving Civil Liberties
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CEI Statement On The “In Defense Of Freedom” Coalition
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, a coalition of organizations across the country was formed in an effort to…
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Regulating CO2 As A Pollutant: Costly In More Ways Than One
Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News President George W. Bush has taken…
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New Threats To Foreign Investment: The U.S. Treasury And Information-Sharing
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Will New Regulation Derail the Railroads?
Full Document Available in PDF Despite the success of railroad…
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October 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Security vs. Civil Liberties”…
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Zoned to Extinction: Overzealous Regulation May Soon Render Commercial Fishermen A Dying Breed
We’ve got water coming in!” the captain announced abruptly as he poked a flashlight through a torso-wide hatch to where the Detroit diesels fretfully thrumbled…
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Innocent No More: America Can No Longer Be Naive About Security
Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times Events in recent days serve as…
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Government Pursues Microsoft Case It Has To Lose
Delong Op-Ed In TechCentralStation<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Antitrust Division and the state attorneys…
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Hug a Terrorist: The Earth Island Institute’s take on September 11
As Jerry Seinfeld might ask, “So, what’s the deal with supporting terrorism?” Indeed, that is precisely what now needs to be asked of anyone perpetuating…
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Bush Emerges As Leader For His Time
Great leaders so often come to us when we least expect them, but need them the most Kemp Column Syndicated by Copley…
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Is Bailout The Best Remedy?
Before the tragedies of Sept. 11, the airline industry was one of the most politically unpopular in America. Complaints about delayed flights…
News Release
Nation Goes Back To Work Of Economic Recovery
Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001— The terrorist attacks of last week have left a heavy burden on the United States – psychologically, politically,…
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CEI President Offers Statement On National Tragedy
As we reflect on the tragic events of September 11, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and those around the world…
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Vol. V, No. 19
Politics Politics State Department Criticizes TAR The U.S. State Department has submitted formal comments criticizing the draft Synthesis…
News Release
CEI Names New Warren Brookes Fellow In Environmental Journalism
Washington, DC, September 17, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce that Eileen Ciesla, formerly a staff writer with The American Spectator,…
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A Crashing Failure: The Stupid Tragedy of CAFE
Provided courtesy of www.nationalreview.com/ If the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a certain chemical was killing several…
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Earth Island Institute’s Ridiculous Response to the Events of September 11
This article was originally published by the Earth Island Institute on September 14, 2001, and has since been taken down. See CEI’s response to the…
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It’s Too Late To Wait And See: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Monetary…
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Another Gas Spike: The Energy Crisis, Take Two
Lieberman Op-Ed in National Review Online<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Once again, gasoline prices are on the rise. As in…
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Hard Facts On ‘Renewable’ Energy
Pearson op-ed in the Washington Times. Imagine that you inherit a sizable chunk of money and, following your broker’s advice, invest it in a…
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Jaws 5: Return Of The Commercial Shark Fishery
Paige Op-Ed In The National Post<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> This summer’s horrific shark attacks may be nothing more than blind…
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Sharks Are Only Doing What Sharks Do
Paige Op-Ed In The Calgary Herald<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> News stories…
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Statements On The Justice Department’s Decision Not To Seek A Microsoft Breakup
James L. Gattuso, Vice President for Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “Today’s announcement…
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Recent Shark Attacks and Wildfires Show Mother Nature Doesn’t Always Know Best
Washington, DC, September 5, 2001—“The idea that Mother Nature always has our best interests in mind has suffered a bit lately. That viewpoint,…
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Vol. V, No. 18
Politics Politics Senators, Utilities, and Environmentalists To Hold Closed-Door Meetings Electric utility executives and environmentalists are set to…
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You Bastards: You Killed Bambi!
After recently watching Bambi, I worry that I may never again have an intelligent thought about man and nature. First we killed Bambi’s…
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Half a Cheer for the U.N.
Just when you thought you could count on a group to be consistent – they do something reasonable. The United Nations has rarely been a…
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It’s Magic!
The Left has a strange view of technology. Sometimes they like it, sometimes they fear it, and other times they view it as…
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Privatizing National Parks
Wonders never cease. China, once the poster child for socialist nonsense (remember the backyard steel furnaces?), seems determined to experiment with a wide…
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Automobility And Freedom: Kazman Remarks At The Objectivist Center
Reprinted from Navigator, Volume 4, Number 8, September 2001. (This article is adapted from a lecture that Sam Kazman gave at…
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September 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “U.S. Triumphs In Bonn”…
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It’s About Economic Growth, Stupid!: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service President George W.
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Vol. V, No. 17
Politics Politics Bush Team Developing Kyoto Alternatives The Bush Administration is in the process of developing…