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Markets, no Mandates, for Net
The battle over Internet freedom is heating up again. The spark this time is the proposed Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, recently…
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Solving the Safe Sledding Crisis
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington – In response to the ice storm which recently swept through…
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Saving Starving Children Should Trump Global Warming Concerns
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” said famed 18th century British lexicographer Samuel Johnson. To update the quote for our current era…
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Land of the Fake Free
Item (a): Officials in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have proposed cracking down on truancy by strapping ankle bracelets on…
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Lead-Pipe Rip-Off
California recently lifted its silly and expensive state ban on residential use of vinyl plumbing pipes. New York City should follow suit. In 2004,…
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Review of “Calvin Coolidge” by David Greenberg
On Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1919, Boston policemen voted to strike. They wanted to unionize; management wouldn't allow it. That evening more than 1,100…