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Bunning’s backing of Northup blasted http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS02/701270323/1014&template=printpicart

Praise for Generals Lee and Jackson -  Chuck Baldwin Unlike his northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, General Lee never sanctioned or condoned slavery. Upon inheriting slaves from his deceased father-in-law, Lee immediately freed them. …As those who are familiar with history know, General Grant and his wife held personal slaves before and during the War Between The States, and even Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free them….Jackson said he wished to see "the shackles struck from every slave." …   http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin342.htm

Enjoy the warm while you can We are currently about 11,000 years into the naturally ocurring warm interval that separates one ice age from the next. Data from the Vostok Ice Core shows regular warm intervals between ice ages. Scientists call our current warm interval the Holocene Epoch. The recuring cycle of ice ages and warm intervals presents an inconvenient truth to people who believe that humans caused global warming. http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/issues06/125106/opinion/125106le1.html

Minority View – Walter Williams The environmental extremists' true agenda has little or nothing to do with climate change. Their true agenda is to find a means to control our lives. … Last year, 60 prominent scientists signed a letter saying, "Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future. . . . Significant [scientific] advances have been made since the [Kyoto] protocol was created, many of which are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases. If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/01/24/minority_view

Jewish theology and economic theory http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=363&fromemail

The Greed Fallacy – Thomas Sowell Should computer experts tell brain surgeons how to do their job? Or horse trainers tell either of them what to do? One of the reasons why central planning sounds so good, but has failed so badly that even socialist and communist governments finally abandoned the idea by the end of the 20th century, is that nobody knows enough to second guess everybody else. …Now that oil prices have dropped big time, does that mean that oil companies have lost their "greed"? Or could it all be supply and demand -- a cause and effect explanation that seems to be harder for some people to understand than emotions like "greed"? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/01/23/the_greed_fallacy

What they know that isn’t so – Dinesh DSouza Then what are the two groups fighting about in Iraq? Not over religion but over power. Saddam ran a big mafia-style operation for 25 years, and he recruited his thugs from his home town of Tikrit, which is to say he recruited from his own tribe, the Sunni. The Shia, although the majority, were under the jackboot of Saddam’s mafia. Now that democracy has installed the majority Shia into power, the Sunni insurgents are waging a desperate war to get back the power they have lost. It’s a ruthless war, to be sure, but it’s not a religious war and there’s no reason to think it will go on and on. One gang will win. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2007/01/22/what_they_know_that_isnt_so

Global Warming – Science trumped by politics and activism The facts, such as we can observe and calculate them, do not support the idea of man-made global warming. …. Most geologists and indeed, most scientists in the U.S. do not accept the idea that global warming resulting from human activities is a viable theory -because most have an appreciation for the kind of power inherent in natural systems…. Geologists point to a period of much warmer weather prior to the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850 A.D., in which it was possible to farm in most of Scandinavia, Canada and even in Greenland (the name was not a joke). …Carbon dioxide is inert and since carbon dioxide is less dense than ice, the carbon dioxide in the ice near the bottom of the ice is going to be squeezed upward in the ice, i.e., the upper ice layers will have more carbon dioxide than lower ice because it moves upward over time….Temperatures in rural areas of the U.S. have dropped slightly in the last few decades. More than a hundred years of temperature records in the U.S. confirm this. Urban temperatures have increased, but this is a phenomenon local only to urban areas- brought about by asphalt and concrete absorbing more heat than the prior ground cover.

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Another Vietnam? – Thomas Sowell The Maliki government is politically dependent on one of the very Baghdad militias that needs to be disarmed. We can pressure and warn Maliki all we want, but his real choice will be whether he can survive -- either politically or personally -- without militia support.  Our choice may become whether we are prepared to sacrifice more American lives in order to prop up the Maliki government or whether we are prepared to sacrifice the Maliki government in order to restore law and order in Iraq.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=another_vietnam&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=01/16/2007&page=1

How to cure the health insurance crisis – Linda Chavez Maybe if more Americans had to pay their health insurance premiums directly, they'd be more likely to follow their doctors' advice to lose weight, quit smoking and engage in moderate exercise, because their premiums would go down accordingly. But the Democrats' only alternatives to the current system are to force more employers to provide ever more expensive plans to expanding groups of workers -- or have government pick up the tab. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2007/01/26/how_to_cure_the_health_insurance_crisis

Why are some countries rich and others poor? – Rebecca Hagelin [O]ne big-picture message about poverty and wealth consistently shines through, year after year: Wealth and economic freedom go hand in hand. …If a business owner didn’t know that our legal system would fairly, impartially and consistently defend his property holdings, how could he expand his business and ensure that it works as effectively and efficiently as possible? Without property rights, he, and thousands like him, couldn’t concentrate on running a profitable business. You can imagine how this would damage our economy. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2007/01/26/wealth_and_freedom_go_hand_in_hand

Why Shawn Hornbeck didn’t run away – Michael Reagan People who wonder why child victims of sexual abuse remain silent about their experiences have to understand that after that first episode the molester takes ownership of the youngster for a variety of reasons including shame and threats to tell his parents their child is a sexual deviant. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19031

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