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The Press Gets It Wrong: Our Report
Doesn't Support the Kyoto Treaty
by Richard S. Lindzen
The media has taken last week's report on climate change by the National
Academy of Sciences as an unqualified affirmation of man's role in global
warming. In reality, one scientist who helped prepare the report states
that
"there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long-term
climate trends and what causes them."
http://www.OpinionJournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=
95000606
Kentucky
homeschooler wins victory
A Kentucky circuit court judge overruled a lower court's
decision to force a homeschooled teen into public school until she was 18,
saying home schooling is a fundamental parental right. (06/06/01)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE
_ID=23116
California's
dim bulbs
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by P.J. O'Rourke
"California is in the midst of an enormous stupidity
crisis. Californians have been sitting in the dark
because ... they didn't turn the lights on." http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-07-01.html
Schools
don't have to be public to serve the public good
http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/oped/hall-byrne%20oped
.htm
Time
to form a new nation?
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=
23122
Crime
increases with gun controls
http://www.nraila.org/show.cgi?page=/news/20010613-In
ternationalGunContr
ol-001.shtml
What
is not seen
by Tibor R. Machan
Citing railroads, the TVA, and interstate highways,
Michael Kelley of "The Atlantic Monthly" says
government has done wonders for us. Tibor Machan raises the
question: At what cost? )
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=700&FS=Wh
at+is+Not+Seen
Dead
letter constitution?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr
20010613.shtml
Economists
for price controls?
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=699&FS=Ec
onomists+for+Price+C
ontrols%3F
Bush's
Social Security Commission plans privatization
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26971,00.html
Irish voters reject EU membership
(53.87%-46.13%)
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2001/0609/fro
1.htm
Supreme Court says warrant needed
to use heat-sensing device
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/11/scotus.heatdete
ctor.ap/index.html
Bush affirms support for keeping
arts on the dole
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/11/bush
.arts.ap/index.html
Acquittal of ex-officer in raid
angers residents
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The acquittal of a Lebanon, Tennessee, police officer
for his role in a botched drug raid that led to the death
of an elderly man is sparking protests from the local
community. During the raid, police burst into the wrong
home and gunned down the resident.
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/056982
64.shtml?Element_ID=5698264
California bill would ban handgun
sales
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23
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Killing corporations
by Jesse Walker
Anti-business activists want to revoke the charters of
corporations that won't bend to their will. "The new
movement ... has less to do with ending special
privileges than with restricting freedom of association
and freedom of speech, for individuals as well as
corporate bodies." http://www.reason.com/0107/co.jw.killing.html
Advancing privatization and people
http://www.mackinac.org/3474
Time to end the war against
Yugoslavia
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-11-01.html
British Columbia to cut taxes 25%
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/
20010607/584373.html
Elian's family can sue the U.S. for
excessive force
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A federal judge ruled Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives
can pursue their lawsuit against the U.S. government
on grounds that gun-wielding agents may have used
excessive force during the controversial raid to seize
the Cuban boy.
http://www.miami.com:80/herald/content/news/local/dade/
digdocs/079646.htm
Dr. Laura, once a critic, now
advocates homeschooling
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/52001b.asp
Waco whistle-blower gets probation
Former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston, who blew the
whistle on a government cover-up in the Waco case,
was sentenced to two years of probation for withholding
information about exploding tear gas canisters used
during the 1993 Branch Davidian siege.
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/388365_wa
co_08tex.ART.html
The President's energy plan -- a
step in the right http://www.heritage.org/library/execmemo/em751.html
France's minister Jospin admits
Trotskyist past
http://www.ttc.org/pa10609a.htm
Californians defy smoking ban
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26804,00.html
Backlash to Maryland's 'smart
growth'
Land-use restrictions that basically require people
to work their land as farms without recourse
to alternative uses have sparked a grassroots
property-rights movement in Maryland that sets locals
against state-level urban planners. Similar uprisings
are spreading across the country. http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/11/p3s1.htm
Endangered Species Act puts people
second
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26839,00.html
New Zealand parliament advised to
end the war on drugs
Libertarianz Deputy Richard McGrath told a parliamentary
select committee that "if [it] is serious about reducing
the morbidity of drug-related activity, the crucial step
it must take is to legalize the use of cannabis and all
other drugs, eliminate government involvement in the
health industry where it has no rightful business, and shut
down the health ministry before it does further damage."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/7a/81/20010
6071100.4af28da7.html
Shooter's family wins $8 million by
blaming company
The family of Donald Schell, who went on a lethal rampage
in 1998, hit the jackpot when they went to court to blame SmithKline
Beecham, the company that made Schell's anti-depressant medication.
(06/11/01)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/07/paxil.lawsuit.ap/ind
ex.html
In Atlanta, a debate over charter
school financing
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions
/today/local_news_b3123c702105f15f001d.html
Judge orders man to cease
premarital sex
http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2001/06/11/offenders/ind
ex.html
Campaign finance fantasy land
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-09-01.html
Danforth's Supreme Court gambit
http://www.spectator.org/campaign/bovard/bovard01060
7.htm
Zero tolerance, 100 percent control
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson36.html
Economics 101 or California Gov.
Gray Davis
http://www.cfif.org/5_8_2001/Free_line/current/free_line_
economic_liberty.htm
Environmentalist says Kyoto Treaty
is a waste of money
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27062,00.html
Legal experts rip U.S. campaign
finance bill
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010612/pl/politics_
finance_dc_1.html
Judge says private health plan must
cover contraceptives
(Whatever happened to freedom of contract?)
http://www.nando.net/healthscience/story/25370p-4631
91c.html
Privacy rules to turn doctors into
criminals?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
ICLE_ID=23215
Forty states may ban cell phone
driving
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/06/12/cellphoneban.a
p/index.html
Truth in labeling: a one-way street
http://www.recordnet.com/daily/business/articles/1bi
z061201.html
Postmodernism and the Jefferson-Hemings
myth
by David Mayer
"Many proponents of the Jefferson paternity accusation
have unleashed an inquisition that casts a pall over contemporary
Jefferson scholarship, with the result that scholars feel pressured to
accept the myth as truth."
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/pubs/nav_4_5_com
_postmodernism_and_the_jefferson-hemings_myth.asp
The politics of 'science'
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-12-01.html
Laissez Faire and economic growth
http://www.mackinac.org/3479
Antonin Scalia, civil libertarian
While he has a far from consistently libertarian track
record, Antonin Scalia's writing of the pro-Fourth
Amendment Supreme Court decision in the recent Kyllo
case continues a thread of concern for the sanctity
of the home and the person.
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/lawandorder/article/0
,9565,130509,00.html
Electronic cash advocate fights the
good fight
For the last six years, Robert Hettinga has been
agitating for the world to listen to his ambitious plans
for digital money. While other firms have unsuccessfully
trod this ground before, Hettinga sees a bright future
for anonymous online money. (06/14/01)
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44507,00.html
A peasant revolt in the making in
rural China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7
792,505675,00.html
Judge deals blow to Alaska soft
money ban
http://www.adn.com/nation/story/0,2360,274451,00.html
U.N. police involved in misconduct
http://www.ocregister.com/nation_world/bosniacci.shtml
Macedonians denied means of
self-defense
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23231
The conservation myth as latest (sub)urban
legend
by James K. Glassman
Scaremongers want to use government prohibitions
and taxes as a means to stop Americans from making
their own choices. The freedom to cool, heat, drive
and listen to music disturbs them. (06/11/01)
http://www.techcentralstation.org/NewsDesk.asp?Form
Mode=MainTerminalArticles&ID=68
Collateral damage
by Jacob G. Hornberger
"[I]t's important that we not forget that McVeigh is
not the only one who has little or no concern for the
innocent children he kills... how much did U.S.
government officials care when they killed Randy
Weaver's teenage boy. ... How much did they care when they
put a bullet through the head of Weaver's wife
as she held her baby in her arms?"
http://www.fff.org/editorial/ed0501e.htm
FBI sniper won't face Ruby Ridge
prosecution
Despite a victory in federal court allowing for the
prosecution of the FBI sniper who shot and killed the
wife of Randy Weaver, the Idaho prosecutor says he won't
pursue the case. A special prosecutor in the matter
attributed the decision to "temporary corruption."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27300,00.html
Armey of one takes on Carnivore
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27271,00.html
Forest Service may scrap
Clinton-era regs
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27307,00.html
New FTC head indicates change on
antitrust
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44485,00.
html
Outside smoking bans spread
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/15/fp1s4-
csm.shtml
Two more studies find marijuana
'safe'
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Two studies released this week examining the health effects
of marijuana use found no significant risk to health or mortality. The
Journal of Public Health Nutrition showed marijuana smokers' nutritional
health as equal to that of their non-smoking peers. A second study in
"Circulation," associating marijuana smoking and heart attacks,
showed negligible risks to healthy subjects. http://www.norml.org/news/archives/01-06-14.shtml
Indian sex workers hold up traffic
to protest raid
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/15mdel4.htm
Broad-based revolt gains momentum
in Algeria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A280
5-2001Jun14.html
Political parties become more
ideological
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The defection of Senator Jeffords from the GOP and threats of
similar jumps is part of a process by which the major parties are becoming
more ideologically cohesive and actually coming to stand for something. http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/15/fp1s2-
csm.shtml
National Term Limits group keeps
close eye on Maine legislature
http://www.termlimits.org/Press/Press_Releases/20010
612.html
Ten thousand commandments
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-14-01.html
Big Brother's bait-and-switch on
medical privacy
http://www.pacificresearch.org/action/action70.html
The religious rapture of shortage
http://www.acton.org/research/comment/2001may/3
0.html
Curbs on steel trade reflect
special interests
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/14/business/14SC
EN.html?pagewanted=print
A room and a view
by John Tierney
Joan E. Mazzola is paying $1,847.77 a month for
a rent-controlled apartment worth five times that,
subletting a room for $2,200 -- and she's surprised
that her landlord is upset.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/nyregion/12B
IG.html?searchpv=day02
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