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Government & Liberty
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Africans Starve Rather than Accept Bounty of GM Corn
Opinion -I grow poison on my farm, feed it to my family, and sell it to unsuspecting consumers in the U.S. and around the world. That's what the president of Zambia seems to think. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-12
Opinion -An Enormous Victory . . . for Consumers On November 1, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. -
Conservative Black Leader and Free-Market Think Tank Join Forces
Opinion -CHICAGO: Lee H. Walker, a leading mainstream conservative black spokesperson, has joined forces with The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank based in Chicago, to launch The New Coalition at The Heartland Institute. -
Measure 27: Oregon’s War Against Biotech
Opinion -The voters of Oregon, who long have marched to their own drum beat, are being tempted by radical anti-capitalist groups to adopt a policy that would have terrible consequences for the nation and the world. -
Addicted to Tobacco Taxes
Opinion -Arizona’s politicians can’t make up their minds about tobacco. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-11
Opinion -Take that, Mississippi! Mississippi may rank last among the 50 states in per-capita income, but it ranks first in lawsuit abuse. Since 1995, Mississippi courts have awarded plaintiffs some $1. -
Testimony on Affirmative Action by Jonathan Bean
Opinion -October 1, 2002 Study on Faculty Diversity Illinois Board of Higher Education 431 East Adams Street Springfield, IL 62701 Dear Board Members: I strongly protest the IBHE’s campaign to promote faculty “diversity,” which it falsely equates with -
Table One: Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth
Opinion -Table One:Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth Percent Growth 1990-2000 Price of Mid-Level Home City Urban Area Palo Alto $1,263,250 5 7 San Francisco 891,000 7 6 Oakland 649,333 7 6 Boston 628,333 3 45 Boulder -
Farming Equals Polluting, Court Says
Opinion -After receiving a battery of briefs seeking its review, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the important issue of whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the farming practice known as “deep ripping” or “deep plowing. -
Confiscating the American dream
Opinion -A report recently issued by the Swedish Research Institute of Trade confirmed America’s continuing unrivaled wealth. The group’s analysts reported the average Swede receives less income than the average African-American in the U.S. -
From Never-Never Land to Shangri-La: The livability fantasy
Opinion -Smart-growth activists, especially those representing the movement’s new urbanist component, frequently talk about “livable cities”—implying that, over the past 50 years, America has developed cities that are not livable. -
Table Two: First Quarter 2002 HOI and 1990-2000 Growth
Opinion -Table Two: First Quarter 2002 Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) and 1990-2000 Growth Metropolitan Area HOI Growth Elkhart-Goshen, IN MSA 94.9 17.0 Kokomo, IN 94.8 4.7 Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN 94.5 13.7 Springfield, IL MSA 92.6 6. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-10
Opinion -Asbestos: Stampeding to the Exits In late September, all but two dozen of the 250 companies being sued in an 8,000-plaintiff asbestos trial in West Virginia settled out of court. -
Du Bois and Washington
Opinion -I read with deep interest the recent article “W.E.B. Du Bois: Wellspring of American Negroes’ Dilemma?” by Archon Theadore M. Pryor of Kappa Boulé (The Boulé Journal, 64:1, Spring 2002). -
Land-use regulation makes housing less affordable
Opinion -On August 12, 2002 the Wall Street Journal described a 350-square-foot former public toilet in south London that developers are turning into a “stylish apartment.” They expect to sell it for around $200,000. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-9
Opinion -Canadian Hookers to Sue Hollywood for Lost Wages A group representing Vancouver prostitutes, beggars, and drug addicts is threatening to sue 30 movie and television production companies for interrupting their illicit businesses. -
Opposing ‘urban sprawl’ … or opposing people?
Opinion -Pinellas County, Florida, is the “smart growth” lobby’s dream. “Smart growth” is the self-description of Europe-wannabe groups seeking to pack as many of us Americans into as little space as possible. Suburbs: bad. High-rise tenements: good. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-8
Opinion -Udder Madness Reversing a lower court decision, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in July after three vehicles consecutively hit a Black Angus cow wandering on a state highway, the only person who could be sued for the two deaths that occurred in car #3 -
Why Do Public Health Advocates Lie About the Risks of Smoking?
Opinion -At the Northwestern train station in downtown Chicago, commuters are met with a billboard that reads: “Odds of dying in a car crash: 6,200 - 1; dying from smoking: 3 - 1. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-7
Opinion -Tick, Tick, Tick, Mr. Motley A few months ago we noted that famed plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley had vowed in October 1999 to bring the former lead paint industry “to its knees” within three years or he would give them his 120-foot yacht. -
EU ratifies biosafety protocol
Opinion -The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it became the 22nd party to formally ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. -
New technology fights old pests, feeds more people
Opinion -When I started farming 30 years ago, I never dreamed of how technological progress would revolutionize agriculture. We still can’t control the weather. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-6
Opinion -He’s Demanding a Lifetime Subscription to Penthouse A man who uses a wheelchair has sued a Florida strip club because an area where private lap dances are performed is up a flight of stairs and inaccessible to him. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-5
Opinion -Win Big! Lie in Front of a Train The New York Times reports a New York City woman was awarded $14.1 million by a state supreme court jury after she was hit by a subway train.