links for 2008-06-04
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Jun
2008
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Here, he’s from another planet. Here in Silicon Valley, David Kralik is, let’s face it, some strange import. That’s why he’s attracting such buzz one recent afternoon inside Buck’s, the legendary eatery, while lunching on a pulled-pork sandwich.
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Earlier today, I attended a bloggers’ briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation and had the pleasure of hearing one-time Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky speak about his new book, Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy.
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The latest update of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s candidate cost analysis project shows that the race for votes is also a scramble to boost the federal budget.
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Earlier this morning, Anna Burger, the Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU, spoke to the convention and I wanted to highlight her comments about The Employee Free Choice Act in particular.
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We wrote here about the economic disaster that goes by the name Lieberman-Warner, the carbon cap-and-trade system now being considered. We posted a diagram created by the Chamber of Commerce that exposed the ludicrous complexity of the proposal.
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Without a doubt, the Republican primary for California’s Fourth Congressional District was the highest profile legislative race taking place in yesterday’s statewide elections in California.
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For believers in the power of rigorous local coverage to help save newspapers, the Washington Post’s launch of LoudounExtra.com last July was a potentially industry-defining event.
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Bob Barr’s Libertarian presidential campaign is poised to play a serious role in this year’s elections, with early polls showing him taking away enough votes from Sen. John McCain to give Democrats a chance to win states that should be safely Republican.
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As the U.S. Senate debates climate change legislation this week, many have proclaimed the virtue of its “cap and trade” system as a “market solution” to reducing carbon emissions. Nothing could be further from the truth.