Sunday, May 25th, 2008
U.S. House Democrat Maxine Waters during a hearing concerning gas prices.
I suggest she read the Constitution she swore to uphold, think a bit about property rights, and watch this video by John Stossel. My favorite part is the graph showing that tax revenue from the tax on gasoline exceeds ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I posted the following on the health care blog at Bell Policy Center, a left-leaning think tank in Colorado. I look forward to their comments.
This week's 20/20 will be about health care in the United States. The story on the ABC News website reads:
Healthy in Cuba, Sick ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
As a long-time Sprint customer, I am eligible for "benefits" resulting from the Benney Lundberg settlement, which concerns allegations that Sprint was fraudulent, deceptive, etc. about their billing policies. Yet, given what I've read about class action lawsuits, for example, by Peter Huber and John Stossel, we are generally "overlawyered." ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
Two cool articles this week:
Nestle chief rejects the need to `give back' to communities, via e-mail from Heather. it's about time. The CEO must have read Milton Friedman's article from 1970 or the new CSR Watch website.
Also, John Stossel did a report on modern "art" last week.
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
John Stossel has an article about Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, which is critical of whether human acitivities are causing global warming. Crichton also has a speech on the subject, Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he gave at Caltech. I have not read this one yet, ...
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