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Bernie Siegan’s idea of freedom Sometimes it seems that the rich, like the Kennedys, support never-ending government meddling because they can afford to. The Kennedys always coveted power. And, because rich, they had and have access to power. For the rest of us, less connected to power, it's nice to have a Constitution to protect what property we have. Which is what Bernie Siegan understood, and helped thousands understand better. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/pauljacob/2006/04/23/194746.html

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Kentucky politics really are local Kentucky’s Third District, which encompasses Louisville and the Derby, is also the site of a less reverential competition, which takes place every other fall and is certainly not respectful. The participants? Not horses, but 5 term Republican Congresswoman Anne Northup and whichever well funded Democrat attempts to topple her. …Either Andrew Horne or John Yarmuth will emerge as the donkey running against the Anne Northup dynasty in this derby. Who will cross the finish line in November? Will it be a photo finish?  http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/EliotPeace/2006/04/20/194108.html

Saving Africans from Malaria - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, and hundreds of physicians, clergy and human rights advocates have joined me in demanding that DDT be put back into the malaria control arsenal. …Sprayed in small quantities, just twice a year, on the walls and eaves of mud-and-thatch or cinder-block homes, it keeps 90% of mosquitoes from entering and irritates any that do come in, so they rarely bite. No other insecticide – at any price – does that. Of course, it also kills those that land on walls. …malaria deaths since the 1972 DDT ban may exceed the entire World War II death toll. It is a travesty worse than colonialism ever was, a human rights violation of monstrous proportions.  http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/RoyInnis/2006/04/22/194350.html

Is there a federal deficit?  Walter Williams The fact of business is that the true measure of the impact of government on our lives is not the taxes we pay but the level of spending. The founders of our nation would be horrified by today's level of American servitude to their government. From 1787 to the Roaring '20s, federal government spending, as a percentage of GDP, never exceeded 4 percent, except in wartime, compared to today's 20 percent. …This situation differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery. After all, a working description of slavery is the process where one person is forcibly used to serve the purposes of another. The difference is a slave has no rights to what he produces each year, instead of just four months. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/04/19/193985.html

Hidden costs – Thomas Sowell Preferential access to jobs, government contracts, and college admissions are among the many welfare state benefits that add to the costs of immigrants which are not paid by employers of "cheap labor" but which fall on the general public in taxes and in other ways. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/19/194218.html

Why not everybody? – Thomas Sowell The welfare state has made immigrants of all sorts, wherever their origin and whether they are legal or illegal, a major burden beyond what the immigrants of a century ago were. Few of the enthusiasts for more immigration seem to want to talk about these high hidden costs of "cheap labor." …Even people who have been railing at Wal-Mart for not paying their workers "enough," claiming that the taxpayers are subsidizing Wal-Mart employees' health care and other benefits, never seem to apply the same reasoning to illegal immigrants. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/20/194353.html

Death by a thousand cuts – Larry Pratt The UN has been attempting to impose a gun control treaty on the US. It would require registration of all guns, and the stated intention of the promoters of this treaty, on the record, is to keep guns out of all private hands (or "non-state actors" in UN-speak). That means that if your government is trying to wipe you and the rest of your minority group out (for example, 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda), it is wrong for you to take up arms because you are not the government.   .. The immediate problem concerns 9,800 Karen refugees whose main crime, other than not being ethnic Burmese, is that many of them are Christians. To keep from being exterminated, some of them have taken up arms (as a "non-state actor!"). The Department of State has given a green light to allowing the Karen refugees asylum status in the United States. The DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) refuses to issue a waiver (which is necessary under our PATRIOT and REAL ID Acts). http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry59.htm

An ugly reality – Thomas Sowell Today's immigrant activists and the politicians who kowtow to them have just the opposite agenda, to keep foreigners foreign and to make other Americans accept and adjust to that. It will be a national tragedy if they succeed. Just what problem will amnesty solve? Illegal aliens will benefit and politicians will benefit by sweeping the illegality under the rug by making it legal. But how will American citizens benefit? America can lose big time. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/18/193984.html

All Americans must see “United 93” – Dennis Prager For five years, America has been battling people who are dedicated to destroying every value that Hollywood claims to care most about -- freedom, tolerance, women's rights, secular government, equality for gays -- and Hollywood has yet to make a film depicting, let alone honoring, this war.  Finally, a major studio comes out with a film reminding Americans about the nature of our enemy, about what really happened (to the best of our ability to reconstruct) on one of the 9-11 planes, and the press wonders if Americans are "ready" to see the movie….Teenage and older children in particular should see this film. If the younger teens have nightmares, comfort them. But young Americans need to know the nature of whom we are fighting. If they are attending a typical American high school or college, they probably don't know.  http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/04/18/194005.html

Se habla entitlement – Star Parker Hearing "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish just doesn't provoke my sympathies. I don't buy that, along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, our Creator endowed anyone with the right to sneak into the United States, bypass our laws and set up shop. Maybe our immigration laws do need fixing. But this is a discussion for American citizens. In English. …Although Mexico is a democracy, for some reason Mexicans seem to need to be north of the Rio Grande to get politically active and demand the benefits of a free society. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/StarParker/2006/04/17/193823.html

Media ignores Mexico’s brutal treatment of Central American illegals While most countries including the United States have some police corruption, the level of corruption in Mexico is shocking. To many, the only difference between Mexican organized crime gangs and the police is that the cops wear uniforms and badges. http://www.newswithviews.com/Kouri/jim47.htm

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