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These Foolish Things Remind Me of the MPAA
As Eli informed us this morning, the MPAA has caved into Big (anti-)Tobacco and decided to rate movies that include smoking by adults more…
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More on Unsustainable Policies
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Special interests win with Peru and Panama FTAs
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Sustain This
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Butt Out!
The Washington Post reports that the The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will now give higher, more restrictive ratings to films that “that…
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Hate Crimes Addendum
In an earlier blog post, I cited the ACLU's recent decision to support the federal hate-crimes bill which recently passed the House. The ACLU…
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Colombia’s president gets cold shoulder on the Hill
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Don’t Count Your Cobs Before They’re Grown
Corn growers are riding high these days, as ethanol moves into place as the default alternative fuel for automobiles. Lots of money is pouring into…
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Typesetting and technology
Today the BBC’s website has an article that caught my eye, “Helvetica at 50.” No, Helvetica’s not a movie star or a rock…
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Opposing Murder = Discrimination, Lawyer Says
Truth is stranger than fiction. A restaurant owner told O.J. Simpson to get out of his restaurant, exercising his right not to associate with murderers on his own property. …
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Eliot Spitzer Rebuffed
In a 3-to-2 decision, New York’s intermediate appeals court dismissed most of former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer’s lawsuit against former New York…
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The Present State of America’s Future
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UN on biofuels — implications and tradeoffs
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go No More
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You, too, can be a Concerned Scientist for $35
Today, Human Events reprints Iain’s, Myron’s, and my article on the Union of Concerned Scientists (which was first published in Capital Research…
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Gas Prices a-Go-Go
Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming’s hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it…
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Isn’t Poverty Even Filthier?
A massive ad campaign has been mounted in recent weeks within the Beltway to demonize coal. The ads show some rather unlikely models posing as…
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Hate Crimes Hypocrisy
The ACLU has just jettisoned principle and sacrificed civil liberties on the altar of political correctness in supporting the federal hate-crimes bill. Historically, the ACLU…
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Charlie Crist: Populist
Florida continues its populist jihad against private insurance companies. On top of last year’s legislation letting the state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. compete outright for…
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Cable News Grudge Match: Sam vs. Phil on CNBC
In case you missed him earlier today, here’s our very own Sam Kazman debating Phil Clapp of the National Environmental Trust on federal…
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The Real Risk is to Our Freedom
News stories about the “toxic” chemicals seem to appear daily in the press. These stories say our health is at risk, but the real risk…
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Libertarian Smack Down
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Sarko and the French Cultural Myth
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Instead of praying, buy fluorescent
In my web browsing last evening, I came across a booklet published by the Church of England last month. It’s called “How Many Lightbulbs…
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The Department of Energy Liberates Us from Clean Clothes
CEI doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with the editors of Consumer Reports (to put it mildly), but they do have a great feature in the…
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Even a Caveman…
A Canadian news site notes that activists have recently formed a new “lobby” group called “Prevent Cancer Now.” They want to alert the world…
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“Dr. Hockey Stick” Michael Mann sticks his neck out
A colleague directs my attention to a remarkable example of someone needlessly sticking their neck out, specifically “Dr. Hockey Stick” Michael Mann, whose fall I…
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Will Sarko deliver?
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Re: Sam’s the Man
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