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Gas Prices – Walter Williams  Some Americans are demanding that the government do something about gasoline prices. Let's think back to 1979 when the government did do something. The Carter administration instituted price controls. What did we see? We saw long gasoline lines, and that's if the gas station hadn't run out of gas. It's estimated that Americans used about 150,000 barrels of oil per day idling their cars while waiting in line. …If I were an OPEC big cheese, I'd easily conclude that I could restrict output and charge higher oil prices if somehow U.S. oil drilling were restricted. I'd see U.S. environmental groups as allies, and I would make "charitable" contributions to assist their efforts to reduce U.S. output. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050831.shtml

The state and the flood http://www.mises.org/story/1902

Restoring the Republic by Paul Weyrich --  As the Founding Fathers understood, we cannot both seek empire and preserve liberty. Our liberties are only safe in the hands of a republic, a limited government with limited objectives, responsive to the American people, not just to the Washington Establishment and special interests with lots of money.  (Includes proposals for restoring the republic.) http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/pweyrich/2005/pmw_08301.shtml

The human price of California housing policies – Thomas Sowell http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4383

Hurricane Katrina and global warming  Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when such storms averaged 9 per decade. In the 1960s, there were 6 such storms; in the 1970s, 4; in the 1980s, 5; in the 1990s, 5; and for 2001-04, there were 3. Category 4 and 5 storms were also more prevalent in the past than they are now. As for Category 5 storms, there have been only three since the 1850s: in the decades of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s.  http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4391

Ben Franklin had the right idea for New Orleans http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03tierney.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fJohn%20Tierney

Foul-mouthed tirade by New Orleans Mayor http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46128

John Bolton’s pen begins UN cleanup http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Crouse20050903.shtml

Time and money and housing – part 2 People who own a home in a community do not own the community. They paid only for their own property -- and so did those who would sell to a developer. It is amazing how often lofty talk is used to try to deny others the same rights one claims for oneself. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050901.shtml

Just one question for opponents of the war – Dennis Prager http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20050830.shtml

Why aren’t cloning advocates happier about stem cell breakthroughs? http://worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=10996

Who would Jesus assassinate? http://worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=10994

The food police finally get their smoking gun – Tom DeWeese http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom34.htm

Bolton resists UN push for global taxes http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff58.htm

Voters in Northern Kentucky may get to vote on school tax increase http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/NEWS0103/508310373/1059/NEWS01&template=printpicart

Hatred of America is irrational and undeserved http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4386

America is a laggard in the tax reform revolution http://www.thevanguard.org/r/resource.asp?url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007174

Steven Moore:  The Wages of Prosperity Workers earn in less than four days a week what their parents earned in five, and they make in three days on the job what their grandparents earned in five. http://www.thevanguard.org/index.asp?url=http://www.thevanguard.org/thevanguard/other_writers/moore_steve/050829_steve_moore.shtml

The 9/11 connection to Iraq http://www.thevanguard.org/r/resource.asp?url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/996ssjsb.asp

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