By Brian Fraley A MacIver Institute Perspective Last week, I did lunch with the sophisticated and civilized people. I knew the Midwest High Speed Rail Association’s ‘brown bag lunch’ at the Milwaukee Public Market last Thursday was going to be interesting when the first announcement was about how to get your automobile parking vouchers validated.…
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Fight for Freedom: Don’t Take the Money! A new and blatantly transparent effort now underway by the Obama administration promises cities lots and lots of funding – huge amounts – in return for these cities implementing policies which will put them on a “smart growth” path for the future. Smart growth, of course,means all those…
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Texas Defies EPA on Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
By ROBIN BRAVENDER of Greenwire Texas officials warned U.S. EPA this week they won’t change or reinterpret their air pollution laws to comply with federal greenhouse gas regulations, arguing that the Obama administration’s climate rules are illegal. EPA plans to begin regulating stationary sources of greenhouse gases next January and asked states to inform the…
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The Deficit Inheritance Lie
By Gary Wickert On July 27, 2010, the Congressional Budget Office released a startling report entitled, “Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis.” Before we take a look at what the report says, it might be a good idea to remind ourselves exactly what the CBO is. The CBO is a federal agency…
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‘Joe the Plumber’ brings motivating message to Washington County tea party
Nearly a year and a half into the Tea Party movement, the momentum has not slowed. This was evident by the showing of more than 2,000 area citizens at a Washington County tea party held on county fair park grounds Aug. 7. Organized by Americans for Prosperity, the event drew an enthusiastic group of red,…
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The Legality of Settlements By The Committee for Truth and Justice contact@truthandjustice-online.com The Jewish “settlements” in the West Bank have been characterized as illegal by Arabs and many on the left in the media and in politics, but the legal status of these settlements has received little or no attention in the mainstream media. These…