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WHO Cares? World Health Organization Cares More About Its Own Life Than The Lives Of The Poor

  • By: Brian Doherty
  • 12/31/2001

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 forgot.

Energy and Environment

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Outside View: The choice: Kyoto or WTO?

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/23/2001

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…

Climate

Op-Eds

Fight Rages Over Fate of Deadwood And Timber Sales

  • By: Sean Paige
  • 12/23/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Model Behavior: EPA Promotes False Climate Scares

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/19/2001

Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station: The Environmental Protection Agency is telling the Northeastern United States to be very afraid. “Climate change” will…

Climate

Op-Eds

Red Tape and Tech

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/13/2001

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…

Business and Government

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Airport Insecurity

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 12/09/2001

DeLong Op-Ed in National Review Online Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge recently told Chris Matthews that airplane security ultimately depends on the passengers,…

Health and Safety

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Breathe Easy, But Not for Long

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/06/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Insecurity Blanket: Greens Preparing Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 12/04/2001

Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station September 11 brought to the fore numerous realities that in our comfort we had sublimated, including the…

Climate

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Uncle Sam’s Vaccines

  • By: Henry I. Miller, Sam Kazman
  • 11/25/2001

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:…

Health and Safety

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Private Sector Is Better At Providing Airline Safety

  • By: James L. Gattuso
  • 11/17/2001

Today, after weeks of stalemate in Congress, President Bush will sign the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. On the key sticking point, federalization…

Health and Safety

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Punxsutawney Protocol: “World Reaches Warming Pact” Again, Only Not Really

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/13/2001

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,…

Climate

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Energy-Policy Jujitsu: Using 9-11 To Block Bush’s Proposal To Increase Our Energy Security

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/12/2001

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…

Climate

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Let’s Clear The Air About Air Pollution Levels

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/12/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Settlement Implications For Microsoft

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 11/06/2001

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…

Antitrust

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Government Goes Too Far On Microsoft Case

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 11/05/2001

The 5 days since the release of the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have seen a barrage…

Antitrust

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U.S. Shouldn’t Seek Energy Independence

  • By: Paul J. Georgia
  • 11/04/2001

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…

Climate

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A “Hole” Lot of Alarmism Should Be a Lesson in Marrakech

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/01/2001

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…

Climate

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Armed Crews Can Protect Airliners

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 11/01/2001

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…

Health and Safety

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Precaution (Of A Sort) Without Principle

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/31/2001

Miller and Conko Article in Priorities For Health: Volume 13, Number 3 Published by The American Council…

Energy and Environment

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Under Seige: One Reason Our Military Readiness Is Down: We Won’t Let Them Train

  • By: Sean Paige
  • 10/31/2001

As it prepares sailors, soldiers, and airmen to face enemies abroad, the U.S. military also finds itself under new pressure on the homefront.

Energy and Environment

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Environmental Terrorists Deserve No Special Treatment

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/26/2001

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…

Climate

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Beware “Simple” Solutions

  • By: James L. Gattuso
  • 10/22/2001

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…

Health and Safety

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If Pork Had Wings

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 10/14/2001

Horner Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />     That didn't…

Health and Safety

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Energy Independence: It Doesn’t Work

  • By: Paul J. Georgia
  • 10/13/2001

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…

Energy

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FlashPoint #4: CEI Dispatch on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties

  • By: Solveig Singleton
  • 10/11/2001

FlashPoint #2: CEI on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties Singleton Dispatch on Terrorism and Civil Liberties   This is the fourth…

Telecommunications

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Anonymity in America: Does National Security Preclude It?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/11/2001

Anonymous speech has proud roots stretching to the origins of America. Gentlemen calling themselves “Publius” wrote the Federalist Papers. Thomas Paine's Common Sense…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

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Fear of Federalizing

  • By: James L. Gattuso
  • 10/07/2001

Gattuso Op-Ed In The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   Less than a month after…

Health and Safety

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Liberty And Order: A Clear But Delicate Balance

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 10/02/2001

In Defense of Freedom, an ad hoc group ("coalition" was thought to imply too much chumminess) of 130 organizations of wildly v Delong…

Telecommunications

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Regulating CO2 As A Pollutant: Costly In More Ways Than One

  • By: Michael Mallinger
  • 10/01/2001

Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News President George W. Bush has taken…

Climate

Reason

Zoned to Extinction: Overzealous Regulation May Soon Render Commercial Fishermen A Dying Breed

  • By: Sean Paige
  • 10/01/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Innocent No More: America Can No Longer Be Naive About Security

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 09/27/2001

Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times   Events in recent days serve as…

Trade and International

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Government Pursues Microsoft Case It Has To Lose

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 09/26/2001

Delong Op-Ed In TechCentralStation<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   The Antitrust Division and the state attorneys…

Antitrust

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Hug a Terrorist: The Earth Island Institute’s take on September 11

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 09/25/2001

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…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Bush Emerges As Leader For His Time

  • By: Jack Kemp
  • 09/23/2001

Great leaders so often come to us when we least expect them, but need them the most Kemp Column Syndicated by Copley…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Is Bailout The Best Remedy?

  • By: James L. Gattuso
  • 09/23/2001

Gattuso Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   Before the tragedies of Sept.

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

A Crashing Failure: The Stupid Tragedy of CAFE

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 09/17/2001

Provided courtesy of www.nationalreview.com/   If the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a certain chemical was killing several…

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

It’s Too Late To Wait And See: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column

  • By: Jack Kemp
  • 09/12/2001

Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />     Monetary…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Another Gas Spike: The Energy Crisis, Take Two

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/11/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Hard Facts On ‘Renewable’ Energy

  • By: Thomas Pearson
  • 09/11/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Jaws 5: Return Of The Commercial Shark Fishery

  • By: Sean Paige
  • 09/10/2001

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…

Energy and Environment

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Sharks Are Only Doing What Sharks Do

  • By: Sean Paige
  • 09/07/2001

Paige Op-Ed In The Calgary Herald<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />     News stories…

Energy and Environment

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You Bastards: You Killed Bambi!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

After recently watching Bambi, I worry that I may never again have an intelligent thought about man and nature. First we killed Bambi’s…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Half a Cheer for the U.N.

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

Just when you thought you could count on a group to be consistent – they do something reasonable. The United Nations has rarely been a…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

It’s Magic!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

The Left has a strange view of technology. Sometimes they like it, sometimes they fear it, and other times they view it as…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Privatizing National Parks

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

Wonders never cease. China, once the poster child for socialist nonsense (remember the backyard steel furnaces?), seems determined to experiment with a wide…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

It’s About Economic Growth, Stupid!: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column

  • By: Jack Kemp
  • 08/27/2001

Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service     President George W.

Insurance

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Phlebotomizers at the IMF: Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service

  • By: Jack Kemp
  • 08/22/2001

Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the 18th and 19th centuries, the foundation of…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Reducing Red Tape, Not Energy Output

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/22/2001

Lieberman Op-Ed in The Washington Times Lieberman Op-Ed in The Washington Times     One of the more controversial…

Energy and Environment

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Don’t Cap Access To Affordable Energy

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/17/2001

President Bush has persisted in his admirable determination to keep the U Ebell Op-Ed in Human Events President Bush…

Climate

Op-Eds

Hidden Mischief In Bush’s Energy Plan

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/13/2001

Lieberman Op-Ed in Investors Business Daily<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   The Bush administration's energy plan,…

Energy and Environment

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