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Porking One’s Way to Victory

By: Doug Bandow
08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…

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Battered Food Police and the Battle Against Trans Fats

By: Doug Bandow
08/23/2007

The food fascists are every where. It’s one thing for New York City to ban trans fats from city restaurants. But for the Great Indiana…

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Save the Planet, Reward Your Friends, Get Reelected

By: Doug Bandow
08/23/2007

Is nothing sacred? Congress passes an energy bill in the name of fighting global warming, and what it best accomplishes is passing pork off to…

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The Carbon Offset Scam: Can I Join?

By: Doug Bandow
08/16/2007

Free markets may not be perfect, but they demonstrate enormous flexibility and creativity. Display a demand, and a market will develop. So it is with…

Energy and Environment

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You Can’t Save the Planet by Ruining the Economy

By: Doug Bandow
08/15/2007

The issue of global warming has become a classic morality tale: the heroic environmental activists battling the evil temperature deniers. Despite the efforts of Newsweek,…

Energy and Environment

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Bipartisan Greed on Capitol Hill

By: Doug Bandow
08/13/2007

During the 2006 congressional campaign Democrats denounced the Republican majority for its wastrel ways. It was a fair criticism: the GOP lavished money on pork…

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Porking One’s Way to Victory

Battered Food Police and the Battle Against Trans Fats

Save the Planet, Reward Your Friends, Get Reelected

The Carbon Offset Scam: Can I Join?

You Can’t Save the Planet by Ruining the Economy

Bipartisan Greed on Capitol Hill