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  • Climate Scientist John Christy Presents Powerful Data

    Published August 13, 2013
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    Climate scientist John Christy presented a series of charts and data at a recent scientific conference showing global warming is proceeding at a modest pace and is not causing significant harm.
  • Southern Black Voters Overwhelmingly Favor School Choice, Poll Finds

    Published August 13, 2013
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    Approximately nine in ten African-American voters across Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi favor school choice policies, according to a survey published by the Black Alliance for Educational Options.
  • Geothermal Power Plants Are Causing Earthquakes Near San Andreas Fault

    Published August 13, 2013
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    Geothermal power plants on the southern shore of southern California’s Salton Sea are causing earthquakes in the area, just 12 miles from the San Andreas Fault, according to a newly published peer-reviewed study.
  • Déjà vu All Over Again

    Published August 13, 2013
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    No President in modern U. S. history has more self-consciously evoked the images of his predecessors than the incumbent, Barack Obama.
  • Essentially, a Hand Up

    Published August 13, 2013
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    I have heard several people over the years suggest some pretty crazy policy ideas related to the adoption of broadband, including one who suggested that if people will not adopt broadband in their house voluntarily that they might have to be forced to do
  • A Supreme Chance to Bury Crony Capitalism

    Published August 13, 2013
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    In addition to being on the side of the angels, Benedictine monks at St. Joseph Abbey in Covington, La., appear to be on the side of entrepreneurship and freedom. People around the country could end up benefiting.
  • Detroit Offers Powerful Lesson on Property Taxes

    Published August 13, 2013
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    Detroit recently followed in the footsteps of several other U.S. cities in filing for bankruptcy. Theories abound as to the root of the problem, but one cause cannot be ignored: taxes.
  • Global Warming Alarmism Memorably Debunked

    Published August 12, 2013
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    Review of Climate Change: Natural or Manmade?
  • 22% of Federal Student Loans Are In Default or Delayed Default

    Published August 12, 2013
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    Only 40 percent of individuals with direct federal student loans are currently repaying their debt.
  • NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You

    Published August 12, 2013
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    We’ve been seeing a wide array of incredible, all-encompassing government overreaches on cell phones and the Internet come cascading out ever since Edward Snowden first broached the subject.We learn of new Fourth Amendment violations seemingly every week.
  • “We win and they lose”

    Published August 12, 2013
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    “An economy in distress, vast natural resources locked up with no plans to put them to use, and a regulatory regime that inhibits the development of resources and the creation of jobs.” Sound familiar?
  • Why the Climate Models Are Wrong

    Published August 12, 2013
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    Climate science is in turmoil. Contrary to predictions by the world’s leading climate models and despite rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years. How can it be that the climate models are wrong?
  • Concern Rises Among Obamacare Implementers

    Published August 12, 2013
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    Consumer Power Report #385This past week I attended and spoke at the Colorado Health Symposium.
  • How Many Ways Can You Slip and Fall? Let Us Count Them …

    Published August 12, 2013
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    Just as “ambulance chaser” has become a common, if pejorative, shorthand for a plaintiff’s personal injury lawyer, so “slip and fall” is shorthand for a common kind of personal injury suit, albeit generally less serious than an “arm off,” “leg off,” or
  • Will Democrat Voters Support Obama’s Suspension Of Democracy And Calculated Deception?

    Published August 11, 2013
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    On July 18, President Obama held an event at the White House to promote Obamacare.
  • Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change

    Published August 11, 2013
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    Expert witnesses called by Sen. Barbara Boxer to testify during Senate Environment and Public Works hearings contradicted a key assertion made by President Barack Obama on climate change.
  • Obama’s Climate Plan: Kill Birds and Bats by the Hundreds of Millions

    Published August 10, 2013
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    A newly published peer-reviewed study reports U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, even while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity.
  • Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Secure Parent Rights

    Published August 10, 2013
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    Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina has proposed a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to guarantee parents have the supreme right of educating, caring for, and otherwise directing the upbringing of their children.
  • Fracking Brings Employment and Economic Revival

    Published August 9, 2013
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    Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy people greeted us. New cars, trucks, hotels, and restaurants sparkled in a clean, bustling downtown.
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work . . . to Harass Employers Over Wages

    Published August 9, 2013
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    Labor activists using tactics adopted from the Occupy Wall Street movement are crashing restaurants across the nation in an effort to raise wages for workers – and they’re receiving taxpayer money to fund the effort.
  • Oregon Senate Rejects Bill to Extend Clean Fuels Program

    Published August 9, 2013
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    The Oregon Senate rejected a bill that would extend the state’s Clean Fuels Program beyond its scheduled 2015 expiration date.
  • Duke Energy’s ‘Clean Coal’ Power Plant Off to Bad Start

    Published August 9, 2013
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    Duke Energy’s “green” initiative to gasify coal for allegedly “cleaner” burning at its Edwardsport, Ind.
  • Education Pensions Drain Tax Coffers, Redistribute Wealth to Administrators

    Published August 9, 2013
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    Today’s taxpayers are heavily indebted for yesterday’s education through outsized pension promises to teachers and administrators, and a new study finds retired school administrators are hauling home the biggest piles of cash.
  • How to Fix the Republican Party

    Published August 9, 2013
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    Why does the Republican Party keep nominating all these loser candidates, like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney? Why did Republican primary voters pick George Bush over Jack Kemp in 1988?

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