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Hysteria's History: Environmental Alarmism in Context
PRI Study
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D, Gregory R. Forbes
9.27.2007
Listening to the global-warming alarmists, one gets the idea that humanity faces a critical and certain danger from the rising global temperature, which will raise sea levels and swamp major cities, reduce arable land to desert, impoverish billions, and end civilization as we know it.
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Memo to Governor: Don't Close the Door on Better Health Care Ideas
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
9.26.2007
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s special session to achieve “consensus” on health reform really comes down to one issue: how much more will we be taxed to fund government control over our health care? The session should consider ideas better than the ones currently on the table.
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Our Porn, Ourselves
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.25.2007
There are doubtless some alarms going off at Focus on the Family, but nobody should call for a new Meese Commission to deal with Porn for Women. This new book is indeed revealing, but in a way not intended.
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Warming and Wheezing
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
9.18.2007
“Mommy, will I always have asthma?” The sad-looking child with the inhaler stands against a smoggy skyline on the internet banner ad. The ad then urges the reader to learn what he or she can do to combat, not asthma, but global warming. Sponsored by Environmental Defense and the Ad Council, the banner is part of a larger campaign launched in 2006 to “motivate Americans” to fight global warming.
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Depression Studies
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.4.2007
During the 1920s the private sector ruled in America, but by the end of the 1930s, the public sector was dominant. The New Deal had clearly changed the country forever. How it did so, who did it, and what remained unchanged, is the story of The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes, billed as a new history of the Great Depression.
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