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Russian media learn lesson: don't criticize
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04
/23/fp7s2-csm.shtml
Narrow election win hampers Montenegro independence
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1339
5,00.html
American missionary and infant daughter killed in Peruvian drug war
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/
DailyNews/peru_americanplane_010421.html
Criticizing, then legalizing (New Mexico’s Governor on the use of
marijuana)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1257
8,00.html
Leaders affirm free trade zone
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/
A50174-2001Apr22.html
Oklahoma City's lost information on the federal building bombing
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ART
ICLE_ID=22518
Where choice is taking hold, schools are now marketers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/natio
nal/20CHOI.html
Amtrak's bad trip
http://www.reason.com/ml/ml041901.html
Save us from the 'new-new' math
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by Tony Snow
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/111/o
ped/Save_us_from_the_new_new_math
_P.shtml
The perils of success: environmentalism at a crossroads
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA333.html
Why Latin America needs a free trade zone
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-21-01.html
Quebec crackpots
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j042301.html
I love global capitalism -- and I'm under 30
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-20-01.html
Conservative disconnect on drugs and guns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/a
rticles/A44782-2001Apr21.html
CIA failed to identify drug
war victims' plane
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/article
s/A54261-2001Apr23.html
Accounts differ over downing of missionary plane
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/
0,1038,500475768-500730660-50416
1061-0,00.html
Cell phones to have location-tracking by 2005
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,14
395,00.html
Global warming still causes scholarly debate
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001
/04/23/magazine/watch23.htm
Gore pal sues WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?A
RTICLE_ID=22516
Court battle brewing over religious zoning law
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/04/20/go
odfaithzoning.ap/index.html
Texas House OKs hate crimes bill
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The Texas House gave tentative approval to a bill to increase punishment
for crimes motivated by hate or prejudice. While the bill criminalizes
thoughts, opposition comes chiefly because of the proposed laws
protections for gays.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/p
age1/887246
It takes more than money to educate
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"Spending more on education doesn't mean students learn more, says a
new study on student achievement" by the
American Legislative Exchange Council.
http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?id=96
1&xsectionid
Attack of the global tax police
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by Deroy Murdock
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
wants to get rid of "tax havens" like the
United States, where a little less than half of your income is confiscated
by the government. http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/
murdock042301.shtml
Cutting taxes for the environment
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by George Pieler
"Tax cuts are good for the environment? You bet they are,
particularly sweeping changes like cutting everyone's tax rate, as
President Bush proposes."
http://www.cei.org/OpEdReader.asp?ID
=1447
Truth, lies, death, and the U.S. drug war
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/an
derson32.html
Give grandma an Uzi
http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/e
dmonds24.html
Gun registration in Canada: a model for California?
http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/gunr
egistration.html
Libertarian Futurists announce Prometheus finalists
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Five books made the finalist cut for the prestigious Prometheus Award,
presented annually for the best libertarian speculative novel:
"Lodestar," by Michael
Flynn; Ken MacLeod's "The Sky Road"; "The Truth," by
Terry Pratchett; L. Neil Smith's "Forge of the Elders";
and "Eagle Against the Stars", by Steve White. Smith's trilogy
was Free-Market.Net's 2000 Freedom Book of the Year.
http://www.lfs.org/RELEASES.HTM
Environmentalism refuted
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by George Reisman
A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change
is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it, if
and when it
comes. Capitalism and the free market are the essential means of doing
this, not paralyzing government controls
and "environmentalism."
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?con
trol=661
Bush walked into environmental trap
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0
104/19/cf.00.html
Mexican Indians may get self-government, but lose individual rights
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/200
1/04/25/fp1s4-csm.shtml
Danforth defends Waco report
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Stung by a Cato Institute report saying he botched the investigation of
the 1993 tragedy at Waco, Texas, and that federal actions during the
incident were
"criminally reckless," former Sen. John C. Danforth lashed out
at the report's author, Tim Lynch. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,
15496,00.html
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa395.pdf
'You fly, you die' approach to drug war faces scrutiny
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20
010425/t000034832.html
Impasse continues in case of golf range owner in jail for zoning
violations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn
/articles/A61188-2001Apr24.html
D.C. politicians plan to repeal their term limits
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metr
o/A61052-2001Apr24.html
Tobacco ad free speech to be decided
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1
5615,00.html
Cato calls for private internets
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1
283,43216,00.html
Arab world wary of Net
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1
284,43260,00.html
Buckleyite warmongers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/g
ottfried10.html
The international campaign for high taxes
http://www.washtimes.com/commentar
y/20010423-82075856.htm
My regulator, my competitor
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by Tim Richard and Robert Franciosi
"In order to protect taxpayers and entrepreneurs, cities should not
be in a line of work if private companies are
willing and able to provide the same service."
http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/pers
pectives/0108.htm
Constitutional propaganda (jury nullification)
by Vin Suprynowicz
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/A
pr-22-Sun-2001/opinion/15916384.html
Lawyers want to ban cheap legal advice
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/20
01/04/26/fp2s1-csm.shtml
Ventura urges libertarian Ed Thompson to run for governor
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In a face-to-face meeting, Minnesota's independent Gov. Jesse Ventura
urged Ed Thompson, the brother of Tommy Thompson, a former governor of
Wisconsin, to make his own run for that state's chief executive office.
Thompson is expected to run for the Libertarian
Party, which arranged the encounter. http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/ap
r01/ed26042501a.asp
Australian
civil liberties group slams DNA database idea
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/20
01/04/26/FFXCVGCEZLC.html
Indiana passes charter school law
http://www.edreform.com/news/2001/
010425.htm
Could school systems survive their own rules for charters?
http://www.edreform.com/forum/2001/
antonucci.htm
A new China policy
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by Rep. Ron Paul
The pro-peace, pro-liberty congressman calls for free trade and peaceful
relations between the United States and China.
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/paul4.html
A new day for Japan
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j042501.html
Globalization serves the world's poor
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-25-01.html
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