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Blog Archive 2008

A few items the House of Representatives wants to put on the taxpayers’ credit card, from Citizens Against Government Waste’s recent report on pork in the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bil More...

Dumpster-Diving Government Lectures Citizens About Waste

Politicians love the proverbial “free lunch,” a way of solving a problem that doesn’t appear to involve any costs. In Britain, politicians have found a new version of the free lunch: This one is liter More...

Blame Government, Not the Market for the Food Crisis

Rising food prices, which have pushed millions into poverty and provoked riots around the world, are easily identified as a major global problem. But rising food prices ought to be the solution, too. More...

NGOs Complicit in Terrorism?

Colombia’s operation to rescue hostages held by FARC suggests that some NGOs are more than meets the eye. Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a More...

India Won’t Stay Poor for the Planet

If global warming activists want to limit worldwide carbon emissions, they’ll just have to figure out how to do it without India. India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change, released on June 30, p More...

Congress Tackles National Scourge of Bed Bugs

There might be an answer to the question: “Is there a problem Congress doesn’t think can be solved by a federal program?” Bed bugs, however, won’t be one of those answers if the bill H.R. 6068 becomes More...

Jesse Helms: Honor, Duty, Country, Family

Some thoughts on Senator Jesse Helms who died Friday, July 4, at the age of 86: John Dodd, President of the Jesse Helms Center Foundation: Jesse Helms understood both the value of teaching by exam More...

Growing a Food Problem

Growing grain for fuel instead of food has been a larger factor in food price increases than previously thought, according to a new, unreleased report by the World Bank. The British newspaper The Guar More...

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Sound Transit Officials Give Public Money to Special Interest Groups

Source: The Washington Policy Center

In 1996, voters in Pierce, King and Snohomish counties authorized Sound Transit to pursue the first phase of a regional transit system known as Sound Move. In the process, Sound Transit received the authority to impose a sales tax, rental car tax and an excise More...

When the Price of Bad Policy Is Hunger

Source: The American Enterprise Institute

The past year has seen an explosion in the price of food that has plunged hundreds of millions of people into poverty and privation throughout the developing world. Protest in thirty-four countries—from Mexico and Indonesia to Egypt and Côte d’Ivoire—has follo More...

China's Energy Woes

Source: The Cato Institute

As China’s economy grows and diversifies, the capacity for success with the old formula is becoming more doubtful. There are too many interests to balance; too many signals to manage. Yet the leadership’s response to rising energy prices—the most pressing econ More...

The United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Deserves a Vote

Source: The Competitive Enterprise Institute

The United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement deserves a speedy vote. The U.S. Congress is holding up the agreement—indefinitely. Congressional leaders say that President George W. Bush did not follow “protocol” in sending the agreement to Congress over mem More...

Still 'Dirty' After All These Years

Source: The Progress & Freedom Foundation

Thirty years ago this week, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark First Amendment decision, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. Spurred by a Pacifica Foundation radio station airing George Carlin’s infamous “seven dirty words” monologue, a splintered 5-4 court he More...

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