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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING 2007 You may request any of these articles to Jorge Mata: press@atlanticpacificalliance.com
Trafficking in Persons Office Awards $16.5 Million for
77 Anti-Human Trafficking Programs in 46 Countries / The UN's metastasizing
budget: spending booms while reform wilts / Memorandum of Disapproval of
National Defense Authorization Act / The Politics of Disaster Relief –
Bangladesh, US Navy & Hizb ut Tahrir / The state of the federal judiciary:
salaries, retirements, etc. / The lesson of Bhutto: A time for adults / The
Security Impact of the Bhutto Assassination / Subprime Losses Are Big,
Exaggerated by Some / Ann Curry Dismisses Reagan's Foreign Policy Credentials /
Grassroots Disaster Response: Harnessing the Capacities of Communities / The
Crisis in America's Emergency Rooms and What Can Be Done / Pakistan: Bhutto
Assassination Underscores Need for Political Reconciliation / Russian plane
crosses into Finnish airspace / The Best-Laid Five-Minute Plans of Bill
Richardson – After Bhutto / Top 10 Climate Myth-Busters for 2007 / Does
everything around us cause cancer or some other dread disease?
Russia Wants Iran to Give up Uranium Enrichment / Rein
in
The Other 'New Russia' / Bartlett: The racist history
the Democratic Party wants you to forget + Matthew Yglesias on Bruce Bartlett /
Inefficient credit booms / $cience Mag Jumps on Global Moneywagon / WENN:
Hitler 'Persecuted' Six Million Jews in WWII / Health Panel Names Year's Top 10
Unfounded Scares
Another Ignorant Critic of Originalism / Global
Forecast: The Top Security Challenges of 2008 / Railway a Soft Target for
Maoists / The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds
Russia Back / The Prospects for Democracy in China / Omnibusted: The Top 10
Worst Problems with the Omnibus Spending Bill / Pakistan: Defense and Security
Challenges / The U.S. Must Be Resolute to Avoid Harmful Consequences of the
Bali Global Warming Conference / Cut Shoe Tariffs to Help Low-Income Families /
Why do teenagers take too many risks? / Iraq Seen Plain: al-Reuters / What we
all Know about Press Coverage in
The motives driving Chinese foreign policy remain
dangerously opaque / IDSA on Iran NIE / Re: Linda Greenhouse’s Ethical
In-Fidell-ity / Who Benefits from the Federal Government? / Conservative
Landslide Marks New Era in South Korea / Omnibus Earmarks Out: President Bush
Should Cancel Congress's Pork Spending / "Energy Independence and Security
Act of 2007" requires auto fuel efficiency standards to increase by 40 percent
by 2020 / A teenage terrorist tells his story / A surge of their own: Iraqis
take back the streets: Attacks plummet as Shias join Sunnis in neighbourhood
patrols to tackle militants and reunite communities / The CIA Interrogation
Tapes / America Needs a New Agency to Help Failed States / ABC: 'America's
Inherent Racism' Hinders Obama / Warmer Seas But No Change in Hurricane
Intensity? / Riskometer Tells You What News Stories Leave Out
Climate alarmism hits a brick wall / NATO in Afghanistan
/ Planning for Stability Operations / Problems in Poland / Turkish Airstrikes
in Northern Iraq / The Pentagon's Robots: Arming the Future / There’s a
Huckabee Born Every Minute / Misjudging Judicial Education / Vuitton's new
"Dissonance" line: Energy conservation and hypocrisy / Is the GOP
Heading for a Brokered Convention? / Jack Wennberg: how to spend less on health
care while not making the population any less healthy / Adulterous Candidates
and the Media: Giuliani's Judith Nathan and
President Bush Approves Significant Reduction in
Nuclear Weapons Stockpile / Turkey's Terror Problem Is Ours / Omnibus Prohibits
Oil Shale Development / The Omnibus: "Stealth" Security Provision is
Unnecessary / House Energy Bill Promises Higher Prices, More Deaths, and Big
Subsidies for Unproven Technologies / Omnibus Eliminates Funding for the
Reliable Replacement Warhead Program / Beyond the Presidential Campaign
Spotlight / What Economists Think About Stern / California Healthcare Reform:
Revisiting the Governor’s plan / Except ABC, Outlets Twist Good News on Iraq
Into Bad / Limits on climate sensitivity derived from recent satellite and
surface observations / China's Growing Emissions / The Health of the Nation —
Did you hear the good news?
USAID Hosts First International Faith and Community
Based Initiatives Conference / Stop the War on Drugs / The Mystery of Condi
Rice / Omnibus Spending Bill Busts the Budget to Pay for Pork / Ethanol Loses
Ground at U.N. Climate Conference: Congress Should Rethink Energy Bill Mandate
/ CBO Confirms: Long-Run Fiscal Outlook Remains Grim / What Separation of
Powers Means for Constitutional Government / The Fact Sheet: FISA Legislation
Necessary to Keep Our Nation Safe / If an emission falls and there's no
bureaucrat to mandate it... / Times's reporter on biased climate coverage /
Paul Krugman continues to carry water for Hillary Clinton, with another hit
piece on Barack Obama and his health care proposals / Water and Energy Futures
in an Urbanized Asia / Energy Bill with a Body Count / Japan says
Tamiflu/psychiatric link unclear / Government obesity tests for 4-year-olds
The Washington Post Absurdly Argues Fight To Keep
Spending Low Will Add To Deficit / Watch Out for Budget Gimmicks in the Omnibus
Appropriations Bill / Securing Liberty: The Purpose and Importance of the Bill
of Rights / Contributions the UN Security Council's permanent members can make
to preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism / The War against Big
Pharma: How should we price life-saving drugs? Not the Oxfam way / Vegetarian
pets? / No Connection Between Environmental Crises And Armed Conflict, New
Study Argues / NY Times profiles Michael Savage: Fair and Balanced! / Tropical
Trends Stir Warming Debate / Sun and Warmth Save Lives / The American Lung
Association's Fear Campaign
President Bush Applauds Formation of National Council
of the Damascus Declaration / In Germany, Spain, and other European countries,
the push for corporate tax relief is gaining steam / The AMT Patch: A Few
Months Late and $51 Billion Heavy / Heritage Foundation Statement to the United
Nations Human Rights Council / Providing for the Common Defense: Four Percent
for Freedom / Congress Should Fix the Flawed Wage Determination Process Before
Expanding the Davis–Bacon Act / HOPE NOW: One Step to Resolve the Subprime
Mortgage Crisis / LTTE has to change its strategy / Alternative Futures for
Russia to 2017 / 21st Century Development and Security Assistance / Michigan
RSP: A "cheap" alternative energy mandate / Saluting the National
Guard on its 371st birthday / Conflicts of interest, journalists, Linda
Greenhouse, Fidell, detainees / "[W]e have begun to wage war on the Earth
itself. It is time to make peace with the planet" / Why the World Needs
Riskometer.org
USAID Awards Additional Funding for Oil Spill Clean Up
in Lebanon / Entrepreneurial Philanthropy in the Developing World / Unfulfilled
promises to fight global warming: California "leads the world" on
climate change – Ban Ki-Moon / Five Benchmarks for the Omnibus Spending Bill /
Energy Bill Tax Title Promises More Pain at the Pump / Trojan Dragons: China's
International Cyber Warriors / Joe McCarthy Invented the Internet / The
agreements Israeli and Palestinian leaders made in Annapolis / Misreading the
Iran Report: Why spying and policymaking don't mix / Towards Universal National
Service / How the Private Sector Can Improve K-12 Education / More on Polar
Bears / Riskometer.org Attracting Attention to Differential Hazards
Fact Sheet: Significant, Long-Term Reductions in Youth
Drug Use / Presidential Powers and Sen. Whitehouse / Next week’s South Korean
presidential election may lead to an uptick in relations with the US / The
Election of Anson Chan: A Step Forward for Democracy in Hong Kong / Let the
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) Expire / SCHIP: Congress Must Stop Another
State Bailout / Russian Succession: Putin Prime Minister, Medvedev President /
Medicare Reform: Cleaning Up the Physician Payment Mess / Mind-reading George W
on the Middle East / Would it have helped to give freed slaves land? / Over
Invested and Over Priced: American Higher Education Today / Black Activists
Renew Condemnation of Local Ohio NAACP Chapter for Interference in School Play
/ Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience
/ More California Dreamin': Proposition 65 and Caffeine
Due process for jihadists? / Whitehouse Attacks White
House, to No Effect / More Disregard for Precedent / Trading a firearm for
drugs / Paying More at the Pump: Energy Bill Would Increase Gas Prices /
Pakistan: Credible Elections More Important than Personalities / China and the
USS Kitty Hawk / The Volatility in Global Oil Prices / Barney Frank's
Opposition: It's Not Hank Paulson / Combating Teen Pregnancy / From Kennedy to
Romney: 47 Years of Judicial War Against American Freedom of Religion / How
conservative students and professors are treated in the classroom / Perils of Global
Warnings / JAMA vs. YouTube's Anti-Vaccine Zealots
USAID Increases Funding for School Rehabilitation
Program in Lebanon / Statement by White House Office of Management and Budget
Director Jim Nussle / Gitmo, detainees, NYT's Linda Greenhouse & Justice
Kennedy / CAFE hike: The fine print / Getting Beyond Stalemate to Win a War /
Media takes off on TechSAR, but no takers / Why the Worst Is Probably Over in
Iraq / Don't Be Misled by NIE on Iran's Nuclear Efforts / Economic Lethargy:
South Korea Needs a Second Wave of Reforms / Employment Fattens Up During
November / Director's Statement on the Taping of Early Detainee Interrogations
/ Nets Hype 'Cover-Up' Charge Over CIA Video / Felicity Barringer's
“Precipitation Across U.S. Intensifies Over 50 Years” / Precipitation and Flood
Damage / In Defense of the Blue Dogs / Media coverage of 9/11 health issues is
almost always skewed – World Trade Center dust and childhood asthma report
Launch of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation
/ The Flaws In the Iran Report / Democratic Congress' Anti-Growth Agenda
Threatens the Economy / The Rise of Sovereign Business / The Duma Elections,
Politics and Putin: Where is Russia Going? / Expanding SCHIP: Not the Best
Option for States / Energy Bill Must Not Exclude Nuclear from CO2 Fix / Beware
of Cap and Trade Climate Bills / Promises and Pitfalls of Nuclear Energy in
Southeast Asia / Helping American Families Keep Their Homes / Iran's Nuclear
Intentions and Capabilities / The Iran NIE: A Template of Analysis? / No More
USAID Provides Additional $5M for Emergency Food for
Bangladesh / Iran nuke report shows need for vigilance / Indian Diaspora Tale:
A Malaysian Malady / India and the Gulf: Convergence of Interests / The Meaning
of Religious Liberty / The Compromise Energy Bill: Harmful Regulation, Not
Affordable Energy / Europe: No Economic Juggernaut / Around the World in D.C.
Cabs / Media promote government bailout, downplay 80-percent home price gains /
[Anthony] Lewis' Lunacy – Supreme Court / Fact Sheet: Meeting the Health Care
Needs of Uninsured and Underserved Americans / How many vehicles actually meet
Speaker Pelosi’s 35-mpg fuel-economy standard? / Senate: New Ethics Proposal
Isn't Perfect, But It's a Solid Step Forward / The National Intelligence
Guesstimate + Behind the Iran NIE / The Secret to Raising Smart Kids / BBC
spending $2 million to learn how to tell the truth / NYT: Our Logic-Challenged
Supreme Court Takes on Age Discrimination / EPA vs. Toxicology (and Its Own
Procedures)
Ledeen on
Making sense of Eliot Spitzer’s troubling,
tantrum-filled year / The SCHIP Bill: Why the Premium Assistance Provisions
Won’t Work / The SCHIP Negotiations: A Backdoor Approach to Expanding Medicaid
to the Middle Class? / SCHIP Expansion: More Birth Control for Minors, Less
Involvement by Parents / Dispelling Myths About Nuclear Energy / SCHIP Bill
Increases Illegal Immigrants' Access to Medicaid and Undermines Welfare Reform
/ National Intelligence Estimate Key Judgments: Iran: Nuclear Intentions and
Capabilities + Statement by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley / Politics
Posing as Science: A Preliminary Assessment of the IPCC's Latest Climate Change
Report / New Video: What if We Decided to Consume Nothing? / A Return to Fiscal
Discipline / Hillary on trade / Do They Or Don't They? The NIE and
Modern Transit System Comes to Cameroon, Thanks to
U.S. Company / Fact Sheet: World AIDS Day 2007 / Democracy Network Created for
the Americas: High-level group aims to promote democracy / US-Iran Standoff:
Sanctions and Reactions / NOAA Inflating Storm Numbers and Aiding Political
Campaign for Carbon Restrictions, Group Says; End of 2007 Hurricane Season
Shows NOAA Forecasts Wrong for Second Year in a Row / Just the Facts: 2007 War
Funding by the Numbers / The intent behind the PLA’s ‘Joint-Military Exercises’
/ Sovereign Wealth Funds No Cause for Panic / Combating Insurgencies: Past,
Present, and Future / Confirmed: Sen. Boxer's Impeachment Grudge / The Problem
of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood / WaPo Promotes Cuban 'Election' Fiction in
News Brief / Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming / Chemoprevention: The
Latest Strategy in Reducing Breast Cancer Risk
USAID and Partners Discuss the Future of Information
Sharing for Global Development / Joint Press Release of the Council of Economic
Advisers, the Department of the Treasury, and the Office of Management and Budget
/ Security of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons / Henry Hyde, Champion of American
Constitutionalism / Advancing Freedom in Russia / More Ideas and Initiatives
for Better, Faster, and Cheaper Border Security / Nicaragua: Is Daniel Ortega a
"Vegetarian" or a Carnivore? / Health Care Tax Credits: The
USAID Pledges Over $10M for Emergency Food for
Bangladesh / Despite Federal Reserve's expectations of no recession in 2008,
journalists can't get enough of the word / Statement by the President on Energy
Security and Climate Change / NYT: An Undocumented Newspaper / ASEAN's Midlife
Crisis / A Federal Terrorism Court / Debt: Networks blame business, not
borrowers, for America’s spendthrift ways / Searching for (perfect) safety /
Trans-Asian Railway brings benefits for Bangladesh / Conservative Pigs and
Liberal Bonobos: On Paul Krugman’s book / The China Currency Conundrum / Annual
inventory of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases in the US / NBC
Misleads about Housing Problems / How not to measure temperature, part 38 /
Terminating Warming? A Look at
USAID Sends Emergency Assistance to
USAID Provides $2 Million in Flood Aid for Mexico / At
Last, a Simple Exercise to Ward Off Obesity / Insurers would have the
opportunity to obtain an optional federal charter and thus avoid state rate
regulation / A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness / Why don't American kids
respect their parents more? / LAPD’s efforts are reviving Skid Row —and the
homeless industry is hopping mad / Petrodollars are fueling an
unprecedented-but precarious-prosperity in
USAID Provides Emergency Assistance to Papua New
Guinea / White Paper on China’s Political Party System / Sino-German relations:
Not all hunky-dory / CSIS Global Forecast 2008 / Obama Is Right on Iran /
Archbishop of Canterbury calls US 'Worst" Imperialist / Fixing the
Department of Homeland Security / Maryland senators threaten to block a
qualified candidate from a federal appeals court, Rod J. Rosenstein / Dan
Rather & 60 Minutes/National Guard story / HonestReporting.com: New York
Times 6 Month Study / Australia to sign Kyoto...again / Regulators slate Roche
'lack of knowledge and understanding' in Viracept contamination case / It may
come as a shock to you that even an all-natural holiday feast comes replete
with chemicals / Termites suggest route to new biofuel bioreactors
Monday Nov 26, 2007
Is the time for rapprochement with North Korea Coming?
/ Eight reasons to be optimistic about today's economy / U.N. Climate
Distractions / On the WSJ's interview of Theodore Olson / Time Mag Rejected
Hiring Karl Rove, Saw Him as McCarthyite Felon / ABC's Sawyer: 'Vigilantes'
Going 'Too Far' to Combat Illegals? / MBH98-Style Error Bars for Loehle /
Emile-Geay and Verification r2 Statistics
Friday Nov 23, 2007
U.S. Sends Ships, Supplies to Cyclone-Devastated
Bangladesh / Reexamining the U.S.-Turkish Alliance / Seizing the Opportunity
for Change in the Taiwan Strait / The Annapolis Peace Conference: Cloudy
Prospects for Success / The environmental consequences of the public transport
strikes are significant / In Search of a Dollar Policy / NYT: Suicide Manual
for Dems / Proclamation of Pardon For European-Americans / Matthews plays
Fantasy Hardball over McClellan 'Bombshell' / Times Snaps Fingers: Presto! New
Antibiotics Soon Appear
Thursday Nov 22, 2007
USAID Administrator Fore Visiting Bangladesh / The
Tribal Option: Lessons Learned in Iraq Might Help in Pakistan / Abortion
Politics 2008 / AIDS: UN's 'tendency toward alarmism' exposed / Willem Buiter
Cries "Doom! Doom!" for the Dollar / Economics in many lessons: A
better brew for Rwanda / Iranian Bomb "Intolerable" / U.N. Further
Weakens Human Rights Council / Who's Who in Russia's Parliamentary Elections /
The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for
Limited Government / Health Care at the Crossroads: Personal Freedom or
Government Control? / Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted? / Chinese movie
piracy is overestimated / MarketWatch
Editor's E-mail Enthusiasm for Economy Disappears in His Journalists' Reports /
The Big Secret: Climate Bills Result in No Meaningful Impact on Global
Temperature / U.N. to Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007
USAID Airlifts Emergency Relief Supplies to Bangladesh
/ North Korea: Diplomacy With the Devil / Targeted programs are much less
expensive and, if properly focused, can do as much and perhaps more good / AIDS
Denialism vs. Science / Paul Samuelson: Pessimism and desire to blame /
Domestic Factors Driving Russia's Foreign Policy / Making Thanksgiving
Meaningful Again / Race, IQ and Education / AP Plays Loose With FBI Hate Crime
Statistics / NBC and CBS Jump to Showcase Rise in Army Desertions / Iraq Movie
"Curse" Is a Myth Worthy of Hollywood / IPCC report: The green iron
triangle / The IPCC's "new ethic" / Changes in European Storminess? /
One more time: fatness not linked to overall cancer risks
Tuesday Nov 20, 2007
FY 2008 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Programs
Assisting Refugee Populations in Thailand / Revitalizing U.S. Efforts in
Afghanistan / The U.S. and Mexico: Taking the "Mérida Initiative" Against
Narco-Terror / U.S.-Japan Cooperation on Energy Security, Clean Development,
and Climate Change / President Bush and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan in
Joint Statements / A Real Insurance Fraud / Obama & the driver's license
question in the latest CNN-staged debate / Fred Thompson's Defense Diatribe /
Interest Rates and Dollar Fundamentals / Top 10 Reasons that Lou Dobbs Should
Run for President / Clinton Campaign Copying Nixon's Tricks, Novak Says / US
Military Strike on Iran: Implications for American Strategic Interests in Latin
America / All six of CNN's "undecided voters" were Democratic
operatives / The (Non)Mysterious Orbs / Publicly-owned companies should be
required to disclose to shareholders the financial impacts of global warming? /
E-Prescriptions
Monday Nov 19, 2007
Large U.S. companies increasingly “donate” workers /
Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes / Obama
Plays the Race Card – Hans von Spakovsky / Countering Oil Rogues: Target the
Price or Volume? / Confirmation Fights Kill Judiciary, Judge Thomas Says /
Three Ways To Make America Safer / Auto Efficiency Standards Change Little;
Auto Efficiency Changes Much -- and New York Times Doesn't Notice / ‘John of
God’: Healings by Entities? / Image of pharmaceutical companies as greedy and
callous, profiting from the sick and the helpless
Friday Nov 16, 2007
Chairman Leahy's FISA Modernization Substitute: A Step
Back for Our Nation's Security / Congress Should Not Overlook Benefits of
Nuclear Energy / H.R. 3915 Would Impose New Burdens and Limits on Moderate
Income Borrowers / President's Budget Vetoes Put Needed Brake on Congressional
Spending / Green "Competition" / Musharraf: The Tolstoy of the Zulus
/ Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007 / Voucher
Wars: Utah Says No / New Research Documents Liberal Bias in Universities / The
NY Times Attempted Smear of Rudy Giuliani / War of the Words: The True but
Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO / Secondhand Smoke Exaggerations Challenged
Thursday Nov 15, 2007
USAID Employee Wins Award for Advancing the Role of
Women in Foreign Policy Development / U.S. Thwarts 19 Terrorist Attacks Against
America Since 9/11 / Hunger Hysteria: Examining Food Security and Obesity in
America / Bush Tax Cuts Exploded Clinton-Era Deficit Myth / More Turbulence for
Wind Energy / Georgia's Great Leap Backwards / BANANA & Powerlessness: San
Diego almost blacked-out / Three New Ideas to Close the “Security Gap” /
Teacher Unions' Gain Is Children's Loss / WWF rhino rescue plan decimates Asian
antelopes / Vaccines' Lifesaving Benefits Confirmed Again
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007
A Treasury study refutes populist hokum about
"income inequality" / The Vice Presidency "isn’t worth a bucket
of warm spit." Vice President John Nance Garner / $3 gas? Truck sales
still strong / Why conservatives should join the left's campaign against
nuclear power / Palestinian 'cultural exchange' backfires in Connecticut / She
survived a feminist mother / The (Anti-Religious) Bigotry of the Elites / Why
We Trade / Build Passenger Rail Where the Demand is — on Short Routes / NY
Times Columnist thinks Al-Jazeera 'Balanced' / Daily Kos claims a victim:
Rachel Marsden, a Toronto Sun columnist / Centuries of Yellow River Climate /
The Rehabilitation of Beta-Carotene?
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007
USAID Supports Emergency Health Services for Flood
Victims in the Dominican Republic / California v. EPA / Why are so many top
terrorists engineers? / Is the American economy taking too much risk? Stiglitz
/ Performance-pay Perplexes / Why are Hollywood Unions Powerful? / The economic
consequences of Mr. Bush? / The Bush-Merkel Summit: Washington Must Pressure
Berlin Over Iran / The Wrong Path to Sub-Prime Reform: Barney Frank's mortgage
reform bill / CSIS Commission on Smart Power / Sri Lanka’s Human Rights
Imbroglio / Gitmo Observation Deck / Thorpe, the hoaxer with the fake climate
science journal, now writes for The Guardian / CNN's Blitzer Asks Richard
Armitage About Valerie Plame Leak / Kerik 'Poster Child to Why Giuliani
Shouldn't Be President' / Snow and Ice Surprises / Role of "environmental
chemicals" in putting children at risk of disease / Facing the Facts on
Fat
Monday Nov 12, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Recovery Assistance to Mexico /
McCarthyism: The Rosetta Stone of Liberal Lies / The Homeowners Defense Act:
Bad Policy and a Dangerous Precedent / No Way Out: The Fruitless SCHIP
Negotiations / The End of Pro-Growth Tax Policy: How the Rangel Tax Bill Could
Affect the U.S. Economy / AMT Fix Becomes Massive Tax Hike Via Misleading CBO
Baselines / The Comcast Net Neutrality Controversy: A Discussion / Socialist
Oil Death Spiral / A Blow to Dynastic Politics in Bangladesh: Dissidence within
the BNP is a positive development for Bangladesh’s politics / A Simple Fix for
Social Security / An Unconventional Warfare Command / Idea of the Week: Making
Work Pay For Men / Do monkeys self-deceive? / Global Warming's Senseless
Consensus / Southeast drought culprit: Not enough hurricanes? / A Steak in
Causing Cancer? / India overtakes China in Bt cotton race
Thursday Nov 08, 2007
USAID Airlifts Additional Relief Supplies to Dominican
Republic / Missile Defense: Debunking Arguments Against the Third Site in
Eastern Europe / Arms racing: Middle East nations rush to shore up
sophisticated weapons stocks / The New Fellow Travelers / Modernisation of
Chinese Special Forces / The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform / Proliferation
of Climate Scepticism in Europe / Climate scepticism has now gained a firm
foothold in various European countries / CSIS Report: The Age of Consequences:
The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change
/ The Free Clinic Movement: Where the uninsured get help / President Bush and
President Sarkozy of France Exchange Toasts / Expanding Opportunities for
Working Families to Save / Documents Show Joe McCarthy Was Right, Author Says /
Gas Prices Rise - Congress Provides Only Bandaid Solutions / Green is
Universally Silly (and Irresponsible) / Hillary's "fuel-efficient"
Model T / "'Everywhere chemicals' in plastics alarm parents" / New
counterfeit report highlights worrying trends
Wednesday Nov 07, 2007
USAID Assists Flood Recovery in Slovenia / JTF-GTMO
head attorney sets record straight on detainee abuse allegations / The Urge to
Constitutionalize Everything / Is Jammu and Kashmir Ripe for a Political
Solution? / President Bush and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Discuss Global War
on Terror / The Advantages of Expanding the Nuclear Navy / Musharraf's
Emergency Rule Will Only Fuel Pakistan Crisis / Improving Educational
Opportunities for Foster Children / Europe's Strategic Dependence on Russian
Energy / The Senate Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity / The Rise, Fall, Rise, and
Imminent Fall of DDT / Reconcilable Differences / Taxes, Taxes, Taxes / Did the
Allies in World War II "lower themselves to the level of their
enemies"? / Redistricting: Nearly That Time Again / Cosby: 'Brother Lite'
Thomas 'Doesn't Want to Help Anybody' / Shattering Intelligence: Implications for
Education and Interventions / We're all rockers now / Greenland Climate: Now
vs. Then, Part II. Record Greenland Melt Area? / Money, Fats, and Science /
Apitope vaccine stops MS in its tracks?
Tuesday Nov 06, 2007
Joint Task Force Bravo deploys to Dominican Republic /
USAID Assists Flood Recovery in the Dominican Republic / Russia’s Nuclear Power
/ October 2007 Marks Record 50th Consecutive Month of Job Growth / Russia’s
Nuclear Power / Anti-Photo ID Legislation Would Promote Election Fraud, Black
Leaders Say / Miles/Sunstein Reply on Judicial Activism / Post-Halloween Jobs
Report Is a Treat / The Costs of a Failed U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Deal / SCHIP
Will Not Improve Quality of Kids' Health Care / Semantic and Normative
Originalism: Comments on Brian Leiter’s “Justifying Originalism” / Child
mortality drops 90,000 in Afghanistan / Abrupt displacement of the Myanmar
military could very well result in utter chaos / India at 60: The India-U.S.
Nuclear Deal on Hold - Crash, or Course Correction? / Sen Boxes linked global
warming to the San Diego wildfires, Darfur, the imminent loss of the world's
polar bears and even a poor 14-year-old boy who died from "an infection
caused after swimming in Lake Havasu," because its water is warmer / Commerce Department Study Finds "Unprecedented"
Arctic Melting / University of Delaware has dropped an ideological reeducation
program that was referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment”
for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs / Safe and Useful Chemicals Under
Attack, Again, as Endocrine Disruptors / Second Expert Report just issued by
the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research
Monday Nov 05, 2007
U.S. medical team provides care in Honduran villages /
CSI Honduras: JSF teaches crime scene processing to Honduran police / Taming
the Budget / A Free Trade Agreement With Peru / The debate about the role of
women in combat has been settled – permanently / France: Europe's
Counterterrorist Powerhouse / The Global Economic Decoupling Myth / President
Bush's Remarks on the Global War on Terror / IMF Report: U.S. Economy on Track
for a Soft Landing / Making Good Policy Out of a Bad AMT / AgJOBS Immigration
Bill Is Stealth Amnesty / Grading Cybersecurity Initiatives: Six Necessary
Components / A Moral Case Against SCHIP Expansion / Is global capitalism making
the poor even poorer, or is it in fact rescuing millions of people out of their
misery? / Cristina Kirchner's effortless presidential campaign and victory
reveal a troubled democracy / Coughenour, Mukasey, the case of Ahmed Ressam in
2001 and Guantanamo Bay’s prisoners / The Impact of Milton Friedman on Modern
Monetary Economics: Setting the Record Straight on Paul Krugman’s "Who Was
Milton Friedman?" / Come on Cosby: It's Time to Come Clean about AIDS /
Fires Contribute to Global Warming? / New Abuse-Resistant Medications May
Combat Rise in Prescription Drug Misuse / Latest Scare: "Landmark Report:
Excess Body Fat Causes Cancer; Panel Also Implicates Red Meat, Processed Meat
and Alcohol" / Cancer Patients Not Aware of Critical Flu and Pneumonia
Shots / Pharma must 'reinvent' itself to survive
Friday Nov 02, 2007
Anti-AIDS Program Scores Successes in Africa: PEPFAR
sets higher targets in war against epidemic / Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Tests Move Forward / The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Information Center / The Democratic Congress's 2008 Budget: A Tax and Spending
Spree / Trade and Globalization Assistance Act (HR 3920, TGAA) & Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) / Bernanke, instead of cutting interest rates,
should control the growth of the monetary base and defend the dollar / A
Dangerous Opportunity: American Defense Policy at a Crossroads / Wind Power's
other unreliability problem / The American Academic of Pediatrics has now
offered its expert analysis of climate change and the urgent need to combat it
/ Global warming or paranoia? / Pakistan’s Political Future: The only
institution that will survive all uncertainties is the Pakistan Army, with or
without Musharraf / SiCKO - The End of Socialized Medicine? / FISA Law
Irrelevant, Unconstitutional, Critics Say / Williams Suggests Obama Will Be
'Swift-Boating' Victim / ABC: Iraqis Adapt to 'New Normal' as 'Violence on
Downward Trend' / CNN and Washington Post Play Up 'Bitter' Soldier's Words on
Iraq / Building a Bridge to the Faith Community / Arctic Sea-Ice: Another
Hockey Stick? / Comments on Westerling & Bryant’s Climate Change and
Wildfire in California / Global Warming Not a Factor in Wildfires / The Health
of Nations: America’s health outcomes compare favorably to Canada’s, a new
study shows / Way to target viral antigens deep inside a cancer tumour
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007
Aid Efforts Continue Well After Devastating 2004
Tsunami / The Revised SCHIP Bill: Still Bad Health Policy / The Federalist
Society Online Debate Series: Abigail Alliance v. von Eschenbach / Winning One
Battle, Fighting the Next / A Watchful Eye on Kashmir / Bruce Bueno de
Mesquita: The New Nostradamus / Green Conservatism: A New Way of Thinking About
the Environment / Syria Update II: Syria Buries Foundation of Suspect Reactor
Site / Extend Family and Medical Leave / NBC Frets Over Income Gap, Touts
Advocate for Higher Taxes on Rich / “Adults today are more active than their
parents were” / The gains of GM crops won't be felt with over-regulation /
Akamai to Launch HD Portal: Debut will feature dramatic video from the BBC,
NBA, MTV & CBS
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Costa Rica /
Waterboarding and Torture: Jonathan Turley’s irresponsible attack on Judge
Mukasey / But Who Will Surveil the Judges? The FISA court and its failings /
Paul Krugman’s latest work (The Conscience of a Liberal) lacks serious analysis
/ We'll Always Have Putin / Martin Meredith's Diamonds, Gold, and War: The
British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa / The UN's Eco-Socialist
Agenda – UN Environment Programme’s GEO-4 / Monopoly Vs. Markets: The Empirical
Evidence on Private Schools and School Choice / A One-State Solution:
Advocating Israel's Destruction / Building Colorado’s Green Economy / Fame
Game: Plame Protests Too Much / Former Senator Timothy Wirth (D., Co.) &
the first "global warming" hearing, chaired by Gore in 1988 (1998) /
Settling on an unstable Alaskan shore: A warning unheeded / Positive Attitudes
and Cancer
Monday Oct 29, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Nicaragua / USAID
Provides Flood Assistance to Costa Rica / Winning Asia: Washington's Untold
Success Story / America's Strategic Opportunity With India / The New Battle of
Algiers: Bouteflika has the upper hand, for now / Damn Those Humans! Don't you
just hate it when people live where they want to live? / The Rangel Tax Bill:
Roses Among the Thorns / Red Army Dreams / Top Five Reasons the Democrats'
"New" Schip Bill Is Actually More of the Same / More on Justice
Ginsburg’s Political Activism / New Home Sales up in September / Torture Logic:
Where to draw the line / Giuliani Too 'Hawkish,' 'Hard Line' and 'Neocon' for
NYT and NBC / Counter-terrorism trainer sued by Egyptian Muslim for creating
“hostile work environment” / School Reform That Can Work / / Roe and Baker: Why
is Climate Sensitivity so Unpredictable? / Everyone Wants to Be Below Average
-- in Cancer Rates / GM foods are safe, healthy and essential if we ever want
to achieve decent living standards for the world's growing population
Friday Oct 26, 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt fire at the Israel lobby but hit
their own credibility instead / Encouraging Freedom, Justice, and Prosperity in
Cuba / National Disaster Planning Slowed by Inadequate Interagency Process /
Freedom of Religious Schools and Employers Threatened by ENDA – Employment
Non-Discrimination / Cuba at the Crossroads / Why Reagan Would Still Reject the
Law of the Sea Treaty / Consolidating Peace and Security in the Great Lakes
Region of Africa / African AIDS Statistics Overblown, Experts Say / The Truth
About the Top 1% / Naval Strategy: Addressing a perceived lack of relevance /
China's syndrome of lawless growth / A Common Educational Standard — Across the
States / NYT pot calls Commentary kettle 'black' / Tropical Cyclones of China /
Why Don't Scientists Speak Up When Science Is Distorted? / Drugs moving into
the clinic, part 32
Thursday Oct 25, 2007
USAID Promotes Gender Equity in Education in Southern
Sudan / Mrs. Bush's Remarks on the U.S.-Middle East Partnership on Breast
Cancer Awareness and Research / The Legacy of Borking / EPA Regulations Could
Bankrupt U.S. Cities: Current standards already protect Americans with room to
spare / Defending America and Its Allies Against Ballistic Missile Attack /
Russia and the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant / The World Needs Less IMF, Not More
/ The DREAM Act: Senate Could Soon Vote on "Stealth" Amnesty Bill /
Does the United Nations Advance the Cause of Freedom? / A Vital Engine of
Economic Growth: private equity / Russia: Nordic Threat / People grow wealthier
when they give more / America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower / Ted
Turner: Global Warming Worse Than Iran, Causing Drought / Clarence Thomas is no
judicial activist / J&K Militants Pledge to Ban Use of Anti-Personnel Mines
/ India's Hydro Power: Can India Achieve its Potential? / CNN debuts
"Planet in Peril" / Without Proof, NBC Presumes Global Warming to
Blame for Wild Fires / Gore's Green academy / Anti-smoking - "ends
justifies the means" approach & the public-health establishment /
Inhalers failing asthmatics
Wednesday Oct 24, 2007
Aid to Mongolia: the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Compact / A Scare for the Web: Will Congress Let the Internet Tax Ban Expire? /
Britain Must Reject the New EU Reform Treaty / National Heritage Areas: Costly
Economic Development Schemes That Threaten Property Rights / Foolishness
Indeed: Line-item veto / Building Coalitions To Deal With the Budget Crisis /
Expanding and Improving Opportunities to Vote by Mail or Absentee / Maintaining
Communist Rule in China / EC pushes off mileage standards / Bangladesh’s Quest
for Nuclear Energy / The Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Indo-US nuclear deal /
China's Posture on the Indo-US nuclear Deal / Reimagining American Schooling:
The Case for Educational Entrepreneurship / Vieira Tougher Than Couric With
Plame, Still Frets Over War With Iran / This year’s record low Arctic summer
sea ice extent / Old-Fashioned Advice Rings True on Heart Disease and Women /
Childhood obesity prevention through intensive school-based education to teach
‘healthy’ eating and avoidance of sodas; and behavioral modification and
social-environmental management / The latest research on actual deaths seen
after surgery for weight loss / US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to
preserve the native mosquito
Tuesday Oct 23, 2007
Executive Order: Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Certain Transactions Related to Burma / The Decline and Fall of the Right to
Property: Government as Universal Landlord / China doesn't own the future / A
Lever of Change in Iran / British 4-year-old investigated for racism / The
Stupid Party: How the Democrats earned the epithet previously reserved for
Republicans / Couric Portrays Plame as Heroic Victim of White House 'Smear' /
Is America's Sovereignty Obsolete? / Medicago announces technological milestone
with production of self-assembled Influenza Virus-Like Particles in plants /
Genetically Engineered Poplar Plants Disarm Toxic Pollutants 100 Times Better
Than Controls
Monday Oct 22, 2007
Debt for Nature Agreement to Conserve Costa Rica's
Forests / USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Honduras / Al Gore’s An
Inconvenient Truth - “the Gore Team” complains of "sensational"
coverage / Free Trade: Media Should Include Facts with Opinion Polls / Cuba at
the Crossroads: The Threat to U.S. National Security / Myths About American
Religion / Enhancing International Collaboration for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism / Armenian Genocide Resolution Bad for Public Diplomacy /
About That Shield Law / What They’ll find in North Korea / Synthetic Genomics:
Options for Governance / Was RAND HIE wrong? / How special is American
inequality? / The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance / Meet the Kirchners
/ Three Reforms For the Housing Market / Turkey's Iraq Threat: Real Fears on
Kurdish Terror / H Clinton: Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first
Century / "Permafrost melting", permafrost thawing / A Potential Breakthrough
in Malaria Prevention
Friday Oct 19, 2007
A Democratic Consensus on Trade / The RESPECT Act:
Congress Should Preserve Balance Between Management and Employees / The Chinese
People's Liberation Army and Space Warfare / Democratic SCHIP Bill Blocks
Insurance Options for the Frost Family / Kyoto, EU: Meet the new plan, same as
the rejected plan / Paul Simon, SCHIP, Dr. Redlener and Elian Gonzalez / New
Republic Author Gets it Backwards on Al Qaeda / Ending the Stalemate on Iraq /
The Attitude to the 'Other' and to Peace in Iranian School Textbooks and
Teacher's Guides / CBS Champions Support for S-CHIP Expansion, But When People
Know Facts... / RFK Jr, NAS, Naomi Oreskes, Al Gore / A Cancer Non-Epidemic /
Part Two of the country’s largest clinical trial on healthy eating /
Fingerprinting the structure of pharmaceuticals
Thursday Oct 18, 2007
USAID Provides Assistance to Lebanon After Forest
Fires / While Gore basks, South America shivers for fuel / Modernize FISA, But
Don't Hobble American Intelligence Operations / Washington Metro Needs Reform,
Not a Federal Bailout / Criticizing Success? The Test of the Long-Range Missile
Defense System / Abortion Consent Laws Also Cut Teen STD Rates / Trade,
Technology, and Middle-Class Jobs / Nuclear Iran – How close is it? / The
Future Calling in Estonia / How to debate health care policy / The art of
information warfare: Chinese intrusions into government computer systems /
Decision in Dimmock v Secretary of State - the An Inconvenient Truth case in
the UK + Real Climate comments / Modest Increase for Industrial Production last
month / NYT’s The Board criticizes Sen Feinstein for her vote in favor of Judge
Leslie Southwick / Greenland Climate: Now vs. Then, Part I. Temperatures / How
to Fight Childhood Blindness: By embracing genetically modified ‘golden rice’ /
Trans fatty acids: "cascade effect"? / Agriculture: Unnatural, And
Proud Of It
Wednesday Oct 17, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Togo / Russian
Trade Associations: Important Partners for America / Congress Should Act on
Social Security "No Match" Sharing for Immigration Enforcement /
Revitalizing U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan / Muslim Integration: Challenging
Conventional Wisdom in Europe and the US / Krugman: hysterical denigration of
Mr. Gore motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the
Bush administration / House FISA Legislation the Wrong Direction for Our
National Security / Despite her best rhetorical attempts to deny this fact, Sen
Clinton proposes a series of changes that are driven not by consumers and the
marketplace, but by government bureaucrats / After Nobel, Gore Should Go for
Next Big Prize / Buried Victories / Hillary eavesdropped on her husband's
opponents? / On Ron Paul’s position on Cuba / The End of Socialized Medicine:
The new pharmacopoeia offers people too much knowledge and control for
one-size-fits-all health care to cope with / A GI Bill for the 21st Century:
Loan Forgiveness for Public Service / Fear is the Missing Ingredient in
Government Schools / Newsweek Makes Multiple Errors in Simple Piece on Rudy
Advisers / Gen. Sanchez Hits Biased, Agenda-Driven Coverage of Iraq War / The
big one — results of the biggest clinical trial of healthy eating ever / Statin
Helps Prevent Heart Attacks Long-Term
Tuesday Oct 16, 2007
USAID Supports Efforts to End Child Marriage in
Ethiopia / USAID Provides Assistance to Lebanon After Forest Fires / U.N. Panel
Sharing Nobel Prize Is Fundamentally Flawed, Expert Says / Russian Mind Games /
China Promotes Taiwan-Focused Military Officers / Emma Coleman Jordan:
Attacking Clarence Thomas and Proving Him Right / Candor on How CAFE Overrides
Consumers' Preferences / The Polish Elections: Implications for the
Washington-Warsaw Alliance / Gordon Brown's Wrong Move on Iraq / Global Climate-Change
Bills Before Congress / Security Challenges Involving Pakistan and Policy
Implications for the Department of Defense / Congress Loads Spending Bills with
Pork and Earmarks / Lessons from the latest intelligence leak / WaPo surrenders
to General Petraeus / Challenging the higher education plutocrats / What would
a progressive trade agenda look like? / In Sudan, A Search for Comprehensive
Peace / The New Girl Order: The Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle / Lomborg on the
Nobel award / Days and Counting: No Annual Spending Bills Sent to the
President, No House Conferees Even Named / Why Clinton’s College Plan Will Work
/ No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB / USS Cole
Anniversary Today: Media Silent / NBC Champions 'Global Force' Gore as Nation's
'Potential Savior' / DDT Backlash Continues / Improved infrastructure key to
cheaper drugs
Monday Oct 15, 2007
USNS Comfort treats 98,658 patients during
humanitarian mission / New Homeland Security Strategy Misses the Mark /
Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal / How much higher than European gas
prices should we have to pay? / Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a key
al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader, a second cousin to the former Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein / Hamas Haven: Gaza / Mukasey Should Declare Where He Stands on
Second Amendment / China Promotes Taiwan-Focused Military Officers / Hitler,
Mussolini, Roosevelt: Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals: Reflections on
Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933 – 1939 /
"Insults to Islam": a cube-shaped building under construction in New
York City and the sacred Meccan "Kabaa" / Jimmy Carter Derides Cheney
and NBC's Brian Williams Jumps / Not True That Thousands Died for Lack of
Health Insurance, Critics Say / Three Ways to Reduce Federal Spending / Court
finds truth inconvenient for Gore / Drought Update / The Toll of Unhealthy
Health Care Practices / ZP1609 (GAP-134): first orally available 'gap junction
modifier' for ventricular and atrial arrhythmias – on animals
Thursday Oct 11, 2007
USAID Announces First Malaria Communities Program
Grants / The United States Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Iraqis /
Congress Must Implement CSC Treaty to Reinvigorate U.S. Nuclear Industry /
Restoring Regional Equity to the Federal Highway Trust Fund / Bjørn Lomborg's
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming / Jonathan
Chait's The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and
Hijacked by Crackpot Economics / Updated National Strategy for Homeland
Security / Zoning Ourselves to Death – City Planning Departments, denser
population centers, gentrification and reduction of CO2 / US Experts Head for
North Korea as Nuclear Test Anniversary Marked / The Middle-Class Flat Tax /
Rush Limbaugh, Vindicated / Does Alcohol Cause Breast Cancer? / Diet and Fat: A
Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus
Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
U.S. Agency Funds Climate Change Projects in Nine
Nations / Calabresi v NYT on the Supreme Court / Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and
Rush / The evidence for Neocommunism / Coalition Letter on the Clean Water
Restoration Act (Oberstar-Feingold bill) / A Dutch Retreat on Speech?
Netherlands and Ayaan Hirsi Ali + Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics –
Salman Rushdie / Sy Hersh's Overactive Imagination / ABC Hits Hillary from
Left, Advances MoveOn's Agenda / Restoring the Purchasing Power of the
AmeriCorps Educational Award / Neil Gross and Solon Simmons' "The Social
and Political Views of American Professors" / Ivory Tower Decay / Credibility
assessments, Washington Post style / Epstein's Overdose: How Excessive
Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation / Young people harmed
from the incessant messages to eat ‘healthy’ and watch their weight
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Mali / Pediatrician
paranoia runs deep / Leaves Fall, But Not Jobs / Was Haditha a deliberate
propaganda ploy by al Qaeda? / Dingell (D-MI) proposing global warming
legislation that would directly and openly increase the cost of gasoline and
home ownership / Brother, can you spare a CHIP? (SCHIP) / Africom Commentary /
The Times: Justice Clarence Thomas's memoir My Grandfather's Son is so suffused
with anger that he should recuse himself in all cases involving the interests
of those who opposed his nomination / Media Dishonesty Matters / Carding Gossip
Girl: Another example of what not to watch with your teenage daughter / Big
Apple Hurricanes / An Assessment of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of
Prescription Drugs / A sense of perspective — hamburger scares /
Pharmaceuticals is top R&D spender
Monday Oct 08, 2007
African Perspectives on China / The media settled on
quantitative hedge funds, or “quants,” as the culprits. New research suggests
they got it wrong / Costa Rica and CAFTA: Chavista Rhetoric Threatens Trade
Deal's Benefits / North Korea: Worrisome Gaps in Six-Party Talks' Joint
Statement / The Right Policy for Industrial Loan Companies (ILCs) / Kos Traffic
Numbers Inflated by 60%? / Hillary Clinton Wants Religion in the Public Square,
Says Author / Senators Hesitant to Use Torture, Even to Find al Qaeda Bomb /
Jobs: Can we trust the Labor Department's figures? + More Than 8.1 Million Jobs
Created In Longest Continuous Months Of Job Growth On Record / A Demographic
Theory of War: Population, power, and the 'slightly weird' ideas of Gunnar
Heinsohn / Oval Office Overhaul: It is time to rethink the structure of the
executive branch / As Enemies Put Innocents at Risk, U.S. Military Must
Continue Efforts to Minimize Civilian Deaths and Be Positioned to Better Inform
the Public When Casualties Do Occur / Mark Daily was killed in January by an
I.E.D. / Catholicism and the Supreme Court / Stop fighting over global warming
-- here's the way to attack it / NBC Sees Scandal in 'Abusive' Interrogations;
MSNBC: 'More Lies' / Global Warming Trillion Dollars: Bingaman-Specter Low
Carbon Economy Act (LCEA) bill / Why organic food can't feed the world
Friday Oct 05, 2007
U.S. troops bring pediatric care to Honduran
communities / New SCHIP: Move Children From Private To Government Insurance +
DLC: Bush's Dishonest Case For Vetoing S-CHIP / WaPo's Ruth Marcus, Anita Hill,
Justice Clarence Thomas / Immigration: Many Questions, A Few Answers / Are We
Winning the "War on Terror"? / With most Sunni factions now seeking a
deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively / Coulter:
Pretend to Be All That You Can Be / Are Congressmen above the law? Staff
Sergeant Wuterich vs Congressman Murtha (D-PA) / How Trade Affects Middle-Class
Jobs / Austan Goolsbee, The Democratic Economist for Barack Hussein Obama / ABC
Paints Bush as Uncaring for Vetoing Health 'for Children' / Flu Vaccine Saves
Lives: Learning Exactly How Many Can Wait / Science by press release: Obesity
and pregnancies / Good Food, Bad Science: Codex Alimentarius Commision and why
the UN’s approach to gene-spliced foods is hopelessly flawed
Thursday Oct 04, 2007
U.S. Government Plenary Statement: UNHCR Executive
Committee / President's International Education Initiative: Ethiopia / The Pride
of Yale: Anita Hill, Justice Clarence Thomas / Regulation Re-think: Politicians
react to an economic slow-down / 3Com & Huawei: China bids for firm that
makes "intrusion prevention" technology for the Department of Defense
/ SEC Should Require Companies to Disclose Risk of Global Warming Regulation,
Study Says / Elections in Ukraine: A Second Chance for the Orange Revolution? /
President Reagan's Six Assurances to Taiwan and Their Meaning Today / Who needs
to be covered by, and who may be exempt from, a post-2012 “Kyoto” agreement:
WorldBank's GNI per capita / Asleep at the Wheel at the IMF / The Trouble with
Taxing the Young / Burmese villages being destroyed: Where Have All the
Peaceniks Gone? / Ion Pacepa: Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet
KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination / "Universal Savings Accounts" to
Supplement Social Security / Helen Thomas the 'Highlight' of Virginia
Democratic Fundraiser / Sean Penn: 'Loons on Fox News are Broadcast There Every
Day' / Hurricane/Global Warming Link Weakened / New high potency conjugation
suite for pharma companies developing novel anti-cancer drug conjugates
Wednesday Oct 03, 2007
USAID Still Assisting in Nicaragua After Hurricane
Felix / USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Burkina Faso / SCHIP Plus a Tax
Credit: A Compromise Health Insurance Plan for Kids / Black liberals, Justice
Thomas, and the "victim" metaphor / Calabresi on Originalism / GM
Strike End of an Era / GM, UAW Find a Cure at Last for "Union Cancer"
/ ElBaredei the Enabler / Horowitz: Matthew Yglesias' Islamo-Fascism Petition /
Jack Cashill's What's the Matter with California?: Cultural Rumbles from the
Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking / Senator Reid, come on
my program and say all of these things to my face and let's go at it / Back
When All News Wasn’t Bad: Global Warming / Booze & Breast Cancer / Evista
for Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer: Better Late Than Never, FDA / Biogen
antibody regenerates MS nerves
Tuesday Oct 02, 2007
USAID Provides Assistance to Democratic Republic of
Congo for Ebola Outbreak / President's International Education Initiative:
Yemen Fact Sheet / Appeals Court Rules Military Judge Has Jurisdiction
Authority in Gitmo Case / Ecuador: Is Correa Following Chávez Down the Road to
Serfdom? / The Link between Economic Freedom and Human Rights / Crisis in
Burma: Choosing Our Friends / Increasing the National Debt Limit Should Spur
Congress to Tackle Entitlements / "Constitution in Exile," the
conservative wing of the Republican Party, counterrevolution by Roberts and
Alito / The Divorce Myth / Inequality and unhappiness / Justice Thomas:
Awesome, not Angry / The Tragedy of Zimbabwe / Counterinsurgency in Pakistan:
Learning from India / Shots Now Fight Future Flu
Monday Oct 01, 2007
President's International Education Initiative:
Honduras Fact Sheet / Fact Sheet: College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007
/ Statement by the President on the Situation in Burma / David Brooks: “The
Center Holds” / Poverty Update: The Long-Term Story behind the New Numbers /
Beyond the Fairness Doctrine: Radio's Fight over the XM–Sirius Merger / Fixing
Flood Insurance Before the Next Disaster: House Bill Takes Several Steps in the
Wrong Direction / Clarifying the Future of AFRICOM / Studies Say Biofuels May Increase
Global Warming / Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver / Ukraine: The country
faces enormous economic challenges as it heads to the polls / Kyoto & WaPo:
White House unearned credit for emissions "reductions" / Embryonic
stem cell research (ESCR) & leftover in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos /
Inner-city schools: Heroes are not Replicable / Matthews 'Warming Up To'
Hillary, Fox's Wallace a Partisan 'Ignoramus' / On CNN, O’Reilly Is
‘Ahmadinejad,’ Juan Williams, ‘Happy Negro’ / Declining Air Pollution over the
Eastern US / Two new books on global warming for kids are out / New asthma
treatment gets US go-ahead / GlaxoSmithKline cancer vaccine 'impressive' /
Cry3Bb1 protein from Bacillus thuringiensis does not persist in soil
Friday Sep 28, 2007
President's International Education Initiative:
Liberia Fact Sheet / USAID Airlifts $2.9M of Emergency Commodities to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo / USAID Provides Additional Flood Assistance
to Uganda / Iran: Time for Sanctions of the Willing / Fukuda May Tack Back on
Japan's Assertive Foreign Policy / Spending Run Amok: President Should Veto
Water Resources Development Act / The Nuclear Renaissance: Ten Principles to
Guide U.S. Policy / Taxpayers, Beware: Record Tax Burden Is Rising / Global Rebalancing:
Global Economy / The Long Petard: The New York Times and Sarbox / Polls are
valuable to a point - but they really cannot be taken as independent evidence
of the state of the race / S-CHIP is socialized medicine / New York Times on AG
Nominee Mukasey and Acting AG Keisler / Fact Sheet: 2007 Nation's Report Card
Shows Minority Students Posting All-Time Highs / Bad Company: For American
Businessmen in the News, the Defense Never Rests / Deep-sea temperatures rose
1,300 years before the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, ruling out CO2 as
driver of the last ice age’s meltdown / How NRDC Continues to Mislead Americans
about Future Air Pollution Levels / Vaccine Litigation over Mercury and Autism
Puts Kids in Jeopardy / News from WiMax World: It Is Real
Thursday Sep 27, 2007
President Bush Addresses The United Nations General
Assembly / The Top Five Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose the U.N.
Convention on the Law of the Sea / Four Percent for Freedom: The Need to Invest
More in Defense - Selected Writings / Syria Joins the Axis of Evil / A Colorado
Springs, Co., elementary school banned tag during recess / Iran's Friendly
Audience - What's really behind Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN? / Law of the
Sea: Cliff Kincaid discusses why LOST should get lost / The Top Ten (Sixteen)
Lies of Lawyers in Venture Capital / President's International Education
Initiative: Mali Fact Sheet / CBS News' Scott Pelley likens “skepticals” on
Global Warming to Holocaust deniers / Questioning 20th Century Warmth / Young Kids
vs. Flu: FluMist Now an Option / New schizophrenia target found in the
glutamate system
Wednesday Sep 26, 2007
Egyptian sociologist Saad Edin Ibrahim & Mubarak /
Congress Should Add Auto-Enrollment to the Thrift Savings Plan, But Resist
Interfering in Its Investment Choices / The Major Economies Meeting on Energy
Security and Climate Change: A Badly Needed Alternative to the Kyoto Protocol /
SCHIP: Crafting a Better Compromise to Cover Kids / Treatment of Detainees and
Unlawful Combatants: Selected Writings on Guantanamo Bay / Congress Is Right to
Withhold Funds from the U.N. Human Rights Council / Iranian Free Speech: Only
in America / Indian manufacturers need to lose generic mindset / CBS's Pelley:
Ahmadinejad 'Friendly,' 'Incorruptible' and 'Modest' / Olbermann Suggests
'White Wing' GOP Racist, Want to Re-Segregate / Vieira seemed so convinced that
the U.S. had lost the war in Afghanistan she was perplexed when Afghanistan's
President Hamid Karzai didn't share her assessment of failure / The American
Lung Association's Fear Campaign / Sanofi imaging cancer drug 'sensors' /
Viracept contaminant could be widespread, FDA says
Tuesday Sep 25, 2007
Petraeus MoveOn ad: Hillary Rodham Kerry / What
Happened to Liquidity? / Proposed Timetables for U.S. Withdrawal Would Sabotage
Reconciliation in Iraq / The Massachusetts Health Reform: Assessing Its
Significance and Progress / Unionizing Public Safety Employees Threatens
Volunteer Fire Departments and Public Safety / Nanotechnology and National
Security: Small Changes, Big Impact / Rising State and Local Tax Burden Crowds
Federal Tax Policy / A New Federal Broadband Policy / Blaming Capitalism First:
Naomi Klein, gulag denial and the longing for conspiracy theory / The New York
Times has been a driving force in the passage of the unfortunate Bi-partisan
Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) / MoveOn.org Will Pay Full Price for Discounted Ad /
California seeking not regulatory authority but damages in tort from auto
emission-caused global warming / Bush's agreement only targeting the top 15
emitters it covers "a small subset of countries" / Center for Climate
Strategies (CCS), an offshoot of the radical Pennsylvania Environmental Council
/ Climate Insensitivity and AR(1) Models: Schwartz & Mann-Gavin Schmidt-Annan-Grant
Foster / HPV Vaccine Gardasil Soars Past Original Expectations
Monday Sep 24, 2007
Fund Text Books for Ghana's School Children /
Sectarian Violence and the Refugee Crisis in Iraq / Congress's SCHIP Plans
Would Undermine the Family / The Air Force's Cyber Command: Combating
Electronic and Network Threats / Congress Should Link Amtrak's Generous Subsidy
to Improved Performance / Seven Questions: John Bolton Explains the World /
Trial-Lawyer Kowtow / Green journalist: A "deep and bleak" world /
Jeffrey Rosen on Justice Stevens / Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden? /
Hillary Clinton Refuses to Cross MoveOn.Org / A lot of the loss of political
sanity we see today reflects death fears / The New York Times has not published
this article from its wholly owned subsidiary on Salman al-Oadah: “His mentor
turns on bin Laden” / Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby and US
Foreign Policy" / Best of Both Worlds, Better than Either: Let States Lead
the Way to Great Schools / ABC Touts 'Straight Talk' from Gates on Iraq: "I
don't know" / Maher on CNN: Petraeus and Maliki 'Stooges' for President
Bush / Soros & Rosia Montana / Indian senior official to question the
validity of Sir Nicholas Stern’s conclusion / Yo-Yo science and the dangers of
coincidence / Support for biotechnology continues to be high among Canadians /
How Secure Is iTunes? / Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable
across Pacific
Friday Sep 21, 2007
"Iran, the Rainmaker" / The Ag JOBS Act:
Immigration Amnesty Revived / Bush Administration Advocates for Clean,
Affordable Nuclear Energy / Congress Should Stop Environmental Blackmail by
Unions / The House's Anti-Terror Insurance Bill: Unnecessary Corporate Welfare
/ SCHIP and "Crowd-Out": The High Cost of Expanding Eligibility / Not
the Same Pakistan / Supreme Court and business cases / Why Barack, not Jesse,
is the First Potential Black President / NATO's Afghan Deployment Cracks / US
Military: Ready, Willing, and Able / Kiddy Tamiflu for the EU / Paul Krugman
has a new blog hosted at the NY Times, titled "The Conscience of a
Liberal" / Bloggers have performed an invaluable function checking the
accuracy of the media. Now the Washington Post joins the campaign / ‘General
Betray Us’ Ad Violated Election Law, Group Says / U.S. Life Expectancy
Increases / Avesthagen develops male sterile technology for hybrid seed /
today’s climate change activists pose as ‘defenders of science’. Yet not so
long ago, they irrationally rejected the scientific truth about GM crops
Thursday Sep 20, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Uganda / Lead, Then
Follow: The House and Senate Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Appropriations Bills /
Keeping Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Out of the Hands of Terrorists / Public
Diplomacy and the Cold War: Lessons Learned / Bringing the Market to Health Care
/ Zubkov & Putin / Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler / Dissenting
Thoughts on President Bush's Latest Iraq Speech / Jew Conspiracies at
Huffington: Reviving the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- or
variations thereof / Capitalist Imperialism: The (Sadly) False Charge: Osama
and Chomsky's radical fantasy / Coating on coffee cups puts lid on recycling /
Union Fund Embezzlements 'Epidemic,' Analyst Says / Should NASA climate
accountants adhere to GAAP? / What should the next President do about obesity?
/ Vigorous exercise and obesity
Wednesday Sep 19, 2007
USAID Provides Earthquake Assistance to Indonesia /
USAID Provides Wildfire Assistance to Paraguay / USAID Provides Assistance to
Lebanon / Fact Sheet: Michael Mukasey: A Strong Attorney General / China's
One-Child Mistake / Government for the Good of the People: Ten Questions about
Freedom, Virtue, and the Role of Government / The Gang Abatement and Prevention
Act: A Counterproductive and Unconstitutional Intrusion into State and Local Responsibilities
/ Murtha: Post-Withdrawal Bloodbath Would Not Be Congress' Fault / For Work and
Country: Universal national service / Nets Lead by Hailing Hillary's Universal
Health Care Plan / New H5N1 pandemic flu vaccine developed by Sanofi Pasteur:
super low dose shot stimulating high immune response in 80% of trial subjects /
UK set to overtake US on cancer funding
Tuesday Sep 18, 2007
U.S. troops continue Nicaraguan relief efforts /
Greenspan: Global Warming regulation will fail / "Cut and Run Lite": Congressional
Iraq Proposal Puts Troops at Risk / The Formation of the Constitution / Bush on
Iraq: U.S. Troops "Return on Success" / Private Equity: Time Is of
the Essence / Fear Factor: Lebanon and the European Way of Peacekeeping / Make
conservatives look stupid: Amodio’s Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and
conservatism / The Scandal of Social Work Education: Losing sight of the
difference between instruction and indoctrination / Julio Pino, professor at
Kent State University advocates jihad -- and no one bats an eye / Brian De
Palma and Rape in Iraq: Redacted / Laffer: Cap-and-Trade Could Cost Average
Family $10,800 in Lost Income / Mandatory Calorie Counting Struck Down by Judge
– New York City
Monday Sep 17, 2007
How Environmentalists and Scientists Mislead Americans
about Air Pollution and Climate Change / Pooling Resources Helps Ugandan
Farmers Increase Production, Sales / Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural
Families Worldwide / A Baghdad Statistician's Perspective on the Positives and
Negatives of Polling in Iraq / A Sleeper Amnesty: Time to Wake Up from the
DREAM Act / Transgenic public relations: Why is it so hard? / An attack on
MoveOn, Hillary, and the New York Times puts Giuliani back in the limelight /
NATO open to return of French military / A Global Warming Primer: A Graph is
worth 1,000 words / Iraq: Bush Buys Time, But For What? – DLC / Defeat at Any
Price: Petraeus's testimony was a nightmare for the Democrats / Deval Patrick:
9/11 “was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to
love each other” / Men at Work, Children at Play: The telling difference
between General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and their congressional
inquisitors / Japan Sweats for Global Warming – The Veizer Nature article / Sea-Level
Slowdown? / Decline in Smoking Not to Blame for High Obesity Rates / Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM / Philippines:
"3-in-1" rice country's first GM rice
Friday Sep 14, 2007
Relief of Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Middle
East and Sri Lanka / USAID Hurricane Assistance to Nicaragua Increases / Abe
Resigns: Washington's Delicate Diplomatic Dance / Expanded Trade Ties with Peru
Will Benefit America / Congress Should Free Essential Bridge Repairs from
Davis-Bacon Restrictions / U.N. Secretary–General's Lack of Leadership
Undermines Accountability / South Korea's Mercurial Political Landscape /
Congress: Members are finding ways to work together and following their
individual instincts to look for common ground / Giving the District of
Columbia a full voting seat in the House of Representatives / The War on
Terror: The German Front / Piereson’s Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How
the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism / The
Neverending Gonzalez Non-Scandal / Huffington’s House of Horrors: A Compendium
of Far-Left Flame-Throwing, Name-Calling, and Attack-Dogging / The business of
counterfeit medicines is exploding, and it’s killing poor Africans / Drug Side
Effects Up, But Benefits Up More
Thursday Sep 13, 2007
President Bush Meets with Bicameral and Bipartisan
Leadership / After the Petraeus/Crocker Hearings: Four Issues for Congress /
Six Years After 9/11: Are We Safe Yet? / New Analysis Shows Voter
Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout / China's Yuan: Manipulated,
Misaligned, or Just Misunderstood? / Way of Darkness / Bin Laden's Mortgage
Calculation / Mandated energy efficiency and washing machines / Russia Tests
'World's Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb' / From the Halls of Malibu to the
Shores of Kennedy / Spoiled: Keeping Tainted Food Off America's Tables / Within
the artificial havens of one-party departments / The Professors: New Preface /
Big media shows bias on climate issue / It's time to silence Silent Spring / 11
'conspiracy' theories challenged by Cambridge research / Soft drinks alone do
not affect children's weight / Sanity Prevails in Menu Labeling Controversy
Wednesday Sep 12, 2007
Mass Transit: Separating Delusion from Reality /
Dealing with Taiwan's Referendum on the United Nations / Understanding Violence
and Civilian Casualty Rates in Iraq: An Insider's View / The Subprime Mortgage
Situation: Bailout Not the Right Solution / The Subprime Mortgage Crunch:
Providing Tax Relief for Ex-Homeowners / Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia?
Part II / An Employment Recession May Already Be with Us / Feds to employees :
"Don't buy SUVs" / Green regs scramble Euro auto market / Walid
Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy / What If? An Alternative
History of the War since 9/11 / The quest for students’ academic freedom rights
continues / It’s what we don’t know that may hurt — CAM in babies and young
children / Increasing Variability in a Warmer World? / Presenting factual,
accurate information that contradicts erroneous beliefs, and encouraging people
to think about issues, not only often doesn’t help, it can actually reinforce
the very myths being corrected / FluMist finally on track / The consequences of
organic farming: Recent rains washed out land made prone to erosion by the
practices that were employed
Tuesday Sep 11, 2007
Congressional Appropriators Should Not Undercut U.S.
Negotiators on Missile Defense in Europe / Court Stops Social Security
"No-Match" Immigration Enforcement: Lessons for Congress / Jack Goldsmith’s
The Terror Presidency / Where’s the War? The placidity of the domestic front /
Bin Laden Unplugged: Analyzing the latest video / Making Progress: What to
Expect from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker's Report on Iraq / Be
Careful What You Wish For in Darfur / The Bush Administration's Health
Insurance Tax Reform Proposal / No Middle Way: The Challenge of Exit Strategies
from Iraq / Fact Sheet: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2007 /
Repeated assertions of a post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in the workplace
are pure fiction / The Worst School in America: Welcome to UC Santa Cruz, where
how to make a revolution is a seminar for credit / The Consequences of
Precaution: Warning Labels May Drive Teen Suicide Up / Sound Science vs. the
Anti-Fluoridation Gang (EWG and FAN) / "Organic Abundance" Report:
Fatally Flawed / Biotech Will Help China Reclaim Land, Grow Food: Diversion of
food crops to biofuels has finally caught the attention of policy makers in
China
Monday Sep 10, 2007
President Bush Condemns Ongoing Actions of the Burmese
Regime / Runaway Climate Captured? / Pyongyang's Upper Hand / Planes, Trains
and Automobiles / Diesel and Green fashion / Chris Roberts, El Paso Times,
interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell & FISA /
Security: The Key To Democratic Victory / Paulson, Bernanke, Bush, and
mortgages / The 2007 IPCC Assessment Process - Its Obvious Conflict of Interest
/ Emissions Trading Tyranny / War was the answer to what ailed Europe in 1944 /
Questioning the CIA's Claim of a Drop in China's Military Spending / Upwards
Leisure Mobility: Americans Work Less and Have More Leisure Time than Ever
Before / Advisory thoughts on the 43rd president – Rove / Vladimir Putin is the
new Catherine the Great / Building Financial Literacy - and Taking Advantage of
the EITC / The August Jobs Report: Mixed Signals Send a Warning to Congress /
How Members of Congress Practice Private School Choice / The media: predicting
job losses, focusing on layoffs and ignoring job revisions throughout nearly
four years of job growth / More Hurricane News / Deferred Forecasts Of Global
Warming - Hansen, J., M. Sato, et al., Climate change and trace gases /
Advocacy In The Guise Of Climate Science - Improved Surface Temperature
Prediction for the Coming Decade from a Global Climate Model. Doug M. Smith,
Stephen Cusack et al. / WaPo’s "The Facts on Emissions, or a Lot of Hot
Air?" / Hormones and Menopause - "bioidenticals"
Friday Aug 31, 2007
USAID Provides Drought Assistance to Moldova / Laboring
Against Working Americans: Congress Should Not Cut the Office of
Labor-Management Standards / Japanese Election Results Hamper U.S. Objectives
in Asia / Painful and sudden as today's credit crunch might seem, it is hardly
without precedent / American Psychological Association threatens to revoke its
members' licenses if they help U.S. interrogators "torture"
terrorists / The Art of (the Long) War: The technology of war may change, but
the nature of war is immutable / The reluctance of many pro-American Iraqis to
help us, because they fear we may cut and run / The inexplicable propensity of
civilized people to deny the existence of evil which time and again threatens
to destroy them / How much inequality growth is due to cross-firm productivity
dispersion? / Renewable Energy Laws Mostly Hot Air / A Hard Look at the No
Child Left Behind Remedies / Hurricanes Down Under / Another Climate Forcing
Effect – Ozone / Marketing rBST-Free Milk Is Misleading
Thursday Aug 30, 2007
US Contributing to the UNHCR/UNICEF Joint Appeal to
Provide Educational Opportunities for Iraqi Children in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
and Egypt / Making America Safer by Defeating Extremists in the Middle East:
President Bush Explains Why Winning The Fight In Iraq Is Key To Countering The
Ambitions Of Al Qaeda And Iran / Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man: A New History
of the Great Depression / Saudi Arabia's Koran Kops: The religious police run
amok / GOP wants a theocracy, but candidates are a once-divorced actor, a
Mormon, and a thrice-married Italian Catholic from the streets of Brooklyn /
Two years after Katrina, New Orleans desperately needs law and order / Gregory
Clark's Farewell to Alms / Tehran Agrees to "Cooperate" with IAEA /
Use and Abuse of the Family and Medical Leave Act: What Workers and Employers
Say / The United States Must Demand Accountability from U.N. Peacekeeping
Operations / The Death Penalty Deters Crime and Saves Lives / Hezbollah's
Terrorist Threat to the European Union / Citicorp chief executive Chuck Prince:
"When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will get
complicated" / The SCHIP Open: Hidden Incentives for States to Spend
Federal Funds / Congress's Ill-Timed Iran Bills / Electoral College Reform /
Wen to Merkel: Mind Your Own Business / DLC: Expanding Learning Time in Schools
/ Shaw: white males, you are an island speck in an ocean of color. The reins of
power will weaken and so will your grip / Morning News Shows 'Promoting'
Democrats, Study Finds / Bariatric surgeries save lives? / GSK drug could prove
unlikely saviour for Vioxx
Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
USAID Provides Assistance to Help Battle Fires in
Greece / Operation Phantom Strike: How the U.S. military is demolishing al
Qaeda in Iraq / Hands Off My Analogy: Liberals object when Bush discusses Vietnam
/ Russia and Georgia: The Message behind the Missile? / U.S. Must Be Firm with
Iran: The widespread belief that Iran wants stability in Iraq is wrong /
Housing Market Crisis May Already Have Passed / Divest Iran / The
Administration's SCHIP Regulations: A Sound Prescription / How Poor Are
America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America / The
Racial Engineering of San Francisco / Everyday Kenyans Taking Stock In a
Growing African Economy / Dingell on GW legislation, Part 2 / Squeamishness Kills:
There are trade-offs in life / Fed rate cuts could lead to a stronger dollar
and a much weaker gold price / Did the Bush administration disregard military
expertise before the Iraq war? / Smart Samaritans: Is there a third way for
development between doing everything and doing nothing? / Very quick lesson in
markets’ speed and central banks’ reply / Instead of school / Alliance for
Climate Protection, the organization formed last year by Al Gore: Media
spending will likely be more than $100 million a year / A Reliable Replacement
Warhead is fully consistent with U.S. nuclear nonproliferation objectives /
Commendably balanced story by Revkin about the recent NASA temperature data
fiasco / Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you
Tuesday Aug 28, 2007
USAID Airlifts Hurricane Assistance Commodities to
Belize, Dominica, St Lucia, and Jamaica / He’s No Dick Cheney: Congressman
Baird calls Iraq as he sees it / The Left Shudders. And Bush leads / Iraq Vets
Respond to the New York Times seven / Ban Ki-moon has made little progress in
restraining the U.N.'s dark side / O'Hanlon: The Work Behind Our Iraq Views /
Rereading Vietnam / "Even I question the 'truth' of 9/11" -- Robert
Fisk / The campaign against "passive smoking" / New book on
affluence, cultural angst and the threat to civilization. A review of Diana
West's The Death of the Grown-Up. How America’s Arrested Development is
Bringing Down Western Civilization / What the NIE Really Says / Reclaim Power
from the Ratings Agencies / Russia Confronts NATO and the US / NASA's Hansen
Reaches Escape Velocity / Do the rich really escape paying their "fair
share of taxes? / Sen. Kerry permits last statute of limitations for defamation
to lapse, forever barring any defamation claim against SwiftVet authors /
Credibility Casualties? / New York Times plays defense for NASA's Hansen /
Further Analysis Of Radiative Forcing / Impact of disturbed desert soils on
duration of mountain snow cover – San Juan Mountains / How real is the crisis
of undiagnosed high blood pressure in children? / Was this really proof that
bariatric surgeries save lives?
Monday Aug 27, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to Vietnam / USAID
Announces Funding Increase for International Foundation for Education and
Self-Help in Africa / International Partners Tackle Greenhouse Gas Methane /
Jobs, Trade, and the Democrats: Alan Reynolds' Income and Wealth / Ibn Warraq's
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism / Is Europe Doomed
to Continued Economic Stagnation? / Debates That Say Something / Delusional
plaintiffs with crazy suits are just a symptom of a larger problem / Judge
Saundra B. Armstrong of the 9th circuit court has ruled that the Bush
Administration is required to issue two reports on global warming / Courage,
Cowardice and the Wordsmiths / The Cost of Rising Food Prices / National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE): An Update to "Prospects for Iraq's
Stability" / Giuliani: Toward a Realistic Peace / Failure at the CIA: On
holiday from history / Dingell on GW legislation / General Pace, You Can Save
the US - by Arresting Bush for "Conduct Unbecoming" / Pumping Money
into Universities Won't Propel an Economic Surge / Saraa Barhoum: A Palestinian
Star is Born / Feedbacks, the Infrared Iris, and the Role of Precipitation
Processes / Taming the Hurricane / U.S. Temperature Rankings Rearranged,
Problems and Concerns with Temperature data sets / "Is Baby Einstein doing
your child more harm than good?" / The Canadian Obesity Network believes
500,000 Canadians are in need of obesity treatment, specifically bariatric
surgery
Friday Aug 24, 2007
Second Tsunami-Detection Station To Bolster Indian
Ocean System / President Bush's View on Iraq's Elected Government Consistent /
Release of CIA Report on 9/11: Simple Lessons for the Long War / Beijing
Olympics Boycott: A Wake-Up Call / The lessons of the occupation of Japan / Who
Is Allah? Europeans love to mock the salience of religion in American society,
but they won't be laughing for very long / The morality of health care finance
/ Czech Republic Joins the Flat Tax Club / Sockin’ it to Honduras: CAFTA-DR
& CITA / An interview with John Lott on his new book, Freedomnomics: Why
the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't / 1 Down, 11,999,999
to Go / Networks Still Get High on Gas: ABC, NBC and CBS reports mention price
drop only about one-fourth of the time / Kevin Leffler 's Shooting Michael
Moore / Amanpour's war / The Authentic Voice of Green Imperialism – Yvo de Boer
/ California ruling could impact local budgets / Ocean Circulation Slowdown:
False Alarm / Biotech Crops Safe and Pro-Poor Say FAO Economists / Organic Food
Fantasies Never Die
Thursday Aug 23, 2007
USAID Provides Hurricane Assistance to Jamaica /
Defense Dept deploys damage assessment team to Belize / The State of the
American Worker, 2007 / Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest
Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It / Aron-neous Assault on
Judge Southwick + Specter Responds to Attacks on Southwick / Apologizing to the
Missionaries: The Left confronts a nightmare as Papua New Guinea tribesmen
apologize for their ancestors' cannibalism / Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine /
TimeOut editor at large Michael Hodges imagined an Islamic London / Democrats
concede we’re winning in Iraq -- and claim we can’t win / Padilla: We Got Lucky
/ Why the environmentalist agenda has cost thousands of American lives /
Proposed US Missile Defense Assets in Europe / Bored by playing God, Congress
now plays admiral and general / Sarkozy 'Corrects' Chirac's Errors / Professor
Dan Chiasson's review of Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak / India:
The Nuclear Deal and Regional Security / Did most foreign policy public
intellectuals support the Iraq War? / Diversity, Nihilism, and the Anti-Rational
Mind / More FISA Fear-Mongering: The New York Times strikes again / Replication
Policy Re-Posted / Tellus More About Hurricanes / Trans Fat Indiana State Fair
/ Acrylamide not linked to breast cancer in US women – study
Wednesday Aug 22, 2007
USAID Provides an Additional $175,000 to Help Fight
Wildfires in Albania / Newsweek columnist rebuts Newsweek cover story +
Greenhouse Simplicities / Longing for Belonging and the Lure of the State / If
the Real Simón Bolívar Met Hugo Chávez / Is cell phone use while driving really
so dangerous? / Verdict on the Architect – Rove / Talking to Iran: to a
relentless enemy that seeks to dominate or destroy us / Global warming: No
urgent danger; no quick fix / Aron-neous Assault on Judge Southwick—Part 1 /
Greg Clark's A Farewell to Alms / Land of the Less-Free / The Media Mob / On
The Diagnosis and Significance Of Ocean Heat Content Changes / Assessment Of
Relative Risks Of Future Damage From Tropical Cyclones / Hansen and temperature
change out of the U.S. record, a matter now said to be unimportant / Scientists
Verify Predictive Model for Winter Weather / HPV Vaccine Never Meant to Be a
Treatment for Cervical Cancer / Treating AIDS suspicions: AIDS treatment in
Africa
Tuesday Aug 21, 2007
U.S., Middle Eastern Experts Join in Fighting Breast
Cancer / Subprime fact of the day / An economic downturn is associated in a big
increase in the spread between corporate and Treasury yields / ASEAN at 40:
Mid-Life Rejuvenation? / Khomeini's Death to America / Responsibility for the
current mess in Iraq rests primarily with the Iraqi government, not with the US
/ Jose Carranza / Bernanke to the Rescue: A surgical strike by the Fed chairman
/ Qualified to Serve: appeals court nominee Leslie H. Southwick / New York
Times Covers for CAIR / Global Warming Bureaucrat Hansen Lashes Out at Critics
/ Understanding the Limits of Health Insurance / Why Study War? Military
history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict /
The Peace Racket: An anti-Western movement touts dictators, advocates
appeasement—and gains momentum / Low-fat is not for kids / "SIDS risk for
fat babies"
Monday Aug 20, 2007
USNS Comfort exceeds 178,000 patient consultations /
SOUTHCOM medics respond to Peru quake relief efforts / Indonesia Still Not
Sharing Virus Samples for Avian Flu Vaccines / It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp
(II) / The U.S.–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement: Don’t Let Progress Fall
Victim to D.C. Politics / Prudence, Politics, and the Proclamation / Free Trade
with Taiwan Is Long Overdue / U.S. Nuclear Agreement with India: An Acceptable
Deal for Major Strategic Gain / Towards Eco-Affluence: The Meaning of the 21st
Century / Cohen's Curious Omission / A Week is a Long Time in (Environmental)
Politics: Nordhaus report on costs of reducing Global Warming / The Sopranos of
Iran: Why Iran's Revolutionary Guard has been designated a "global
terrorist entity" / The Muslim Honor Killing Hollywood Doesn't Want You to
See: "Crossing Over" / Joe Scarborough Reveals MSNBC Newsroom Booed
Bush Speech / It is the professional norms of journalism that are often tossed
overboard by reporters out to get him / James Hansen's Hacks / Atlantic Ocean
circulation: No New Ice Age for Western Europe, no Gulf Stream failure scenario
/ The Iris Opens Again? / Climate Change Chaos
Tuesday Aug 12, 2007
USAID Provides Flood Assistance to India / USAID
Provides Wildfire Assistance to Croatia / U.S. Africa Command Builds
Partnerships, Fosters Self-Sufficiency / NASA GISS Temperatures: They're not
issuing any press releases about it / Getting Reform Right: The White House's
Immigration Initiative / Libertarianism vs. the Constitution: Abigail Alliance
v. von Eschenbach / The Left's Lust for Revolutionary Transformation / Steve
Hayes’s Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial
Vice President / The Human Cost of Polygamy / Waning Support for
Suicide-Attacks in the Muslim World? Is the Pew Research Center correct? / The
Accessible Adam Smith: On the Wealth of Nations, P.J. O’Rourke / Moroccan
Liberal Denounces Islamism – Abdelhamid Assassi / Dingell's inconvenient plan:
50 cent gas tax increase and elimination of the mortgage deduction for homes
over 3,000 square feet (the average American home is 2,400 sq. ft. / The truth
about Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Beauchamp & Doug Coffey, BAE Systems /
Rove's Brain: Why the White House aide drives his opponents so crazy / Good for
Goldman: Putting its money where its reputation is / Cleansing the ACLU:
Michigan and the case of Muslim footbaths / The Two-Income Tax Trap: A typical
family pays substantially more to the government than its combined mortgage,
automobile and health insurance expenses / The FDA's Deadly Track Record: The
government may have contributed to a million premature deaths by delaying 12
cancer drugs in recent years / Why Europe Has Leverage With Iran: European
resistance to American triumphalism has its uses / Rumble Down Under: A major
ally in the war on terror faces an election this fall / Maria's Mortgage:
Optimism makes the world go 'round / Trichet's Treaty Troubles: The subtle
changes to the EU Reform Treaty are worrisome / Drug Patents in India: There's
a reason Big Pharma prefers China and Singapore / Protectionist sentiment
appears to be rising in Congress / Reviews of "The Bourne Ultimatum"
and the second season of HBO's "Rome" / “Urban heat islands in
China”, by Wei-Chyung Wang et alii / Global Warming: Bad News for Science in
Newsweek / The “Unruly Sunne” cannot be ruled out as a Cause of Recent Climate
Variation – On Lockwood and Frohlich (Royal Society 2007) / Big News About
Plastic Bottles with BPA: They're Still Safe
Monday Aug 11, 2007
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