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  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-12

    Published September 14, 2007
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    First, De-Fund All the Law Schools ... Shakespeare wrote we should first “kill all the lawyers.” Wisconsin State Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Green Bay) will settle for not using state funds to educate them.
  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-12

    Published September 14, 2007
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    In this issue: First, De-Fund All the Law Schools ... Money for Nutting Legal Gamesmanship Smelly Suits No Fear of Filing Lies, Damned Lies, and Lawyers' Claims The Widow Is Not Merry
  • Consumer Power Report #95

    Published September 13, 2007
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    Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory
  • Research by Hundreds of Scientists Undermines Global Warming Alarmism

    Published September 12, 2007
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    CHICAGO - A new analysis of peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals that more than 500 climate scientists have appeared as authors or coauthors of peer-reviewed scientific articles confirming that climate change is a natural phenomenon.
  • Unqualified Teachers Want Sympathy For Handicapping Our Youth

    Published September 12, 2007
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    Tracy Jan’s exposé on minority teachers failing certification exams, even in their designated fields, should be more than an eye-opener for those who continue to believe the blind can lead the blind (“Minority Scores Lag On Teaching Test, Panel To Study
  • Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice

    Published September 11, 2007
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    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on September 7 claimed that two-thirds of the world's polar bears may die by 2050 due to global warming. Such claims are strongly contradicted by real-world evidence.
  • An Opposing View

    Published September 11, 2007
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    Our national priorities are horribly out of whack when it comes to BP, energy and the environment. BP proposes to increase its refinery capacity 15 percent by tapping the practically unlimited oil available in the tar sands of Canada.
  • To Sue or Not to Sue?

    Published September 11, 2007
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    Two North Shore residents are suing ComEd because the August 23 storm caused multiday power outages. ComEd is taking a bum rap. Trees also fell on houses, automobiles, lawns and shrubbery. Is ComEd to blame for those too?
  • Federal Reserve Bank Encourages Irresponsible Borrowing

    Published September 11, 2007
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    The Federal Reserve Bank is attempting to intrude the government further into the finance market by calling upon mortgage lenders to become lenient regarding repayment terms (“Fed Calls for Loan Leniency,” Sept. 5).
  • Global Warming Put to the Test

    Published September 11, 2007
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    (Chicago, Illinois - September 11, 2007) The debate over whether global warming is natural and moderate, or man-made and likely to be catastrophic, has reached a fevered pitch.
  • Global Warming Not Threat to Egypt

    Published September 10, 2007
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    The August 22 article “Global warming causing Mediterranean Sea to rise, threatening Egypt’s lush Nile Delta” contains exaggerated statements that deserve correction.
  • Nationwide Cutting Florida Renewals

    Published September 10, 2007
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    It is astonishing for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to claim that the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is increasing competition in the state(“Nationwide Cutting Fla. Renewals,” Aug. 20).
  • Global Warming Alarmists Use Carbon Copy Responses

    Published September 10, 2007
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    The Capital Times Web page asserts "we do not print letters that have been generated from advocacy Web sites or organizations." Apparently, global warming activist groups do not respect the Times' policy. In an Aug.
  • Global Warming Alarmism Threatens Economic Prosperity

    Published September 10, 2007
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    Thank you for publishing Mr. Samuelson’s article on global warming [“Greenhouse Simplicities” August 20]. Climate change is an important issue these days and not because we are heading for a climate cataclysm, as Al Gore suggests.
  • Smart Growth Opportunities Are Dumb for African-Americans

    Published September 10, 2007
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    The Urban League, one of the nation's most prestigious African-American organizations, just concluded a highly successful national conference.
  • Quality Teachers

    Published September 10, 2007
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    Peg Tyre rightly pointed out that “poor schools become a dumping ground for green teachers,”[“The Blackboard Bungles,” Sept.
  • Transit Tax Hike Not Okay

    Published September 10, 2007
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    Mayor Daley says “no one is going to blame anyone for increasing the sales tax" to fund mass transit ("Daley says tax hike for transit essential," Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23).
  • Consumer Power Report #94

    Published September 7, 2007
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    Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory
  • Global Warming Consensus Does Not Exist Among Scientists

    Published September 5, 2007
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    Randy Scholfield in his August 24 column (“Why do some deny global warming?”) wonders why so many people “resist the evidence of human-caused climate change.” After all, he writes, “the overwhelming consensus of mainstream science is clear.
  • Misinformation Hamstrings Debate on Climate Change

    Published September 5, 2007
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    Nicole Gelinas starts and ends her August 23 essay in the Wall Street Journal, titled "A Carbon Tax Would Be Cleaner," with errors that negate whatever insights the rest of the essay provides.
  • School Choice Expert Herb Walberg to Appear on the Milt Rosenberg Show

    Published September 5, 2007
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    (September 5, 2007 Chicago, Illinois) Herb Walberg, Ph.D., school choice expert and author of the new book School Choice: The Findings, will appear on the Milt Rosenberg radio show, Extension 720, September 10 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. (CST). Dr.
  • Environmentalists Defend Property Values Against Global Warming ‘Art’

    Published September 5, 2007
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    Even in Santa Barbara, California, arguably the birthplace of the modern environmental movement, environmentalists can go too far.
  • House Bill Aims to Circumvent Supreme Court on Clean Water Act

    Published September 1, 2007
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    Legislation designed to extend the national government's power over isolated local bodies of water is being pushed by environmental activist groups in the weeks leading up to the 2007-2008 U.S. House of Representatives session, which begins in September.
  • Human Freedom, Not Climate, Is at Risk

    Published September 1, 2007
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    We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough--irrespective of the fact that in the course of the twentieth century the global temperature increased only by 0.

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