A Climate of Repression: Interview of Czech Republic President Klaus
On March 2-4, more than 100 scientists, many of considerable renown, attended a conference in New York, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, called...
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Partners Across the Pond
Approximately 50 persons gathered in a plush conference room at the State Department on March 10. They were there for a meeting of...
Read moreIs Making Taxes “Fair” the Answer?
Although tax season has come and gone once again, the various proposals for tax reform are still with us. These tax-reform plans, even...
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The Story of the Pueblo
Several years ago, my youngest son and I were watching a program on the History Channel when the program’s narrator mentioned the capture...
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Has Bush Gone Green?
When President George W. Bush announced a new greenhouse gas reduction goal in his April 16 Rose Garden speech on climate change, environmentalists...
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Pope Benedict XVI’s Comments Give Pause
On April 20, Pope Benedict XVI, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics, concluded a six-day visit to the United States,...
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Transatlantic Two-Step
A few quick showers moved through the Washington, D.C., area on the morning of April 30, 2007, but they wouldn’t stay long. By...
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SPP Moves Forward Under Different Name
The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico met in New Orleans on April 21-22 for the fourth round of annual talks...
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems
A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression...
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Congress Reverses Posse Comitatus Act Changes
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986), which Congress passed on January 22 and President Bush signed into law...
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“Funding Father of the Right” Backs Hillary for President
Neoconservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife has had a change of heart concerning Hillary Clinton. Scaife, the partial heir of the Mellon family fortune,...
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Main Concern Doesn’t Sway Voters
As part of the pulse-taking of the electorate to see what makes Americans’ hearts beat faster as the United States heads toward another...
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Global Food Prices on the Rise
The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than “mass murder,” according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a...
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Will Independent Truckers Survive the Cost of Diesel?
Think you’ve got it tough? Spending up to $80 bucks to fill your tank with gasoline? ...
Read moreGlobal Blowback
Long before 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist activities around the world were being cited as a classic case of “blowback.” Quite obviously, the...
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