Turning the Tables on Abusive Tort Lawyers At long last, there’s good news in the fight against “jackpot justice” tort claims and the nefarious law firms that file them. In courts and legislatures across the country, fraudulent lawsuits are being exposed, and the abusive tort lawyers that file them are finally getting a taste...

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Brookes News Update The US economy: past and present: Although President Bush’s capital gains taxes contributed significantly to the current boom the economic consequences of the Fed’s loose monetary policies have still let loose economic forces whose gloomy outcome is as inevitable as night and day Socialist economist screws up on free trade and...

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BELGIAN STATE GUILTY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES It is attacking the “Brussels Journal” editor via his children In a Report published today by the Libertarian Alliance, the Belgian Government is accused of systematic human rights abuses similar in nature and extent to those in a post-Soviet republic. Journalists and homeschoolers are not safe in...

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MORE ON THE U.N. United Nations deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch Brown has a singular view of what constitutes international diplomacy. He said in a speech recently that the American public is ignorant of the importance and effectiveness of the UN because of the U.S. government’s tolerance of “too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping.” …....

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The Utter Dysfunction of the United Nations A report written by “a concerned group of current and former UN employees” and emailed from IO Watch. Recently Mark Malloch Brown, deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said that “Middle America” did not know how the US is constructively engaged with the UN because of...

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9.9 Million Illegals to Get Amnesty. 1 in 4 Would Be Fraudulent Under Senate Bill Press release from CIS Based on the experience of the 1986 amnesty, we expect that nearly 9.9 million illegal aliens will receive amnesty under the recently passed Senate Hagel-Martinez bill. That is, they will legalize and can apply for...

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THE LATEST UP ON ICJS Summary report on Human Rights Watch The seductive beat of the militant, Islamic drum Summary of IDF investigation of incident on the Gaza beach About the ABC’s “expert” on Israeli munitions Uncertainty shrouds Gaza beach tragedy As Islamists Grow Confident, It’s Time for the West To Stand Come to...

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“WHY I LEFT THE LEFT” Excerpt from an article by Seth Swirsky What made me leave the Left for good and embrace the Right were their respective reactions to 9/11. While The New York Times doubted that we could succeed in Afghanistan because the Soviets in the ’80s hadn’t, George W. Bush went directly...

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Liberalism on the Couch: In search of root causes (Excerpt from Mark Goldblatt) The first factor I’d suggest in the causal chain that leads liberals to their politics is abject failure. People who are frustrated by their lot in life are often drawn to liberal ideas because modern liberalism’s contempt for the free market...

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THE SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL JUST PASSED: The media have reported on the sections that grant illegal residents amnesty (aka path to legalization or earned citizenship). But the media have censored out of their news reports the sections that are 10 to 20 times more costly and far more dishonest than playing games with the...

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HAPPINESS I have been thinking and reading about happiness ever since I came across the work of Michael Argyle on the subject in the 1970s. And I think I can finally summarize the facts about it very simply. It seems that happiness is to a quite extraordinary degree a trait rather than a state....

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THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND PREFERS POLITICS TO RELIGION Peter Hitchens responds to episcopal pronouncements on poverty and the Leftist solutions the bishops put forward “Here’s what we should really be worrying about: the dismal conditions of the British ‘poor’ are often the result of their moral and educational deprivation, and of the collapse of...

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WHAT THE MEDIA WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE USA Excerpt: Social Indicators: We are witnessing a remarkable cultural renewal in America. Violent crime rates remain at the lowest levels in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ survey (which started in 1973). We are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in...

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FOR THE RECORD There’s hope yet. I posted a comment on the site of the academic journal (Pediatrics) in which the “Parenting Styles and Overweight Status in First Grade” article (by Rhee, Julie C. Lumeng, Danielle P. Appugliese, Niko Kaciroti, and Robert H. Bradley) appeared. The comment has been passed and now appears there....

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THE DEEP IRRATIONALITY OF THE LEFT The lack of interest in rational argument that pervades the Left is one of the most striking things about them. As Jeff Jacoby points out, even such senior Leftist figures as Ted Kennedy seem to think that a constant spew of hate-speech suffices as an argument. And, as...

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LEFTIST NARCISSISM Excerpts from Dennis Prager Virtually every news report about President George W. Bush’s support for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman describes it as “pandering” to the “far Right,” the “radical Right” or, less pejoratively, “social conservatives” of the Republican Party. Democrats regularly describe...

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ANOTHER SHONKY “STUDY” “Shonky” is a very useful word much used in Australia which is ROUGHLY translatable as “fraudulent”, “misleading” or “a confidence trick”. In academe, political correctness is a great source of shonky research reports. An article in “The Times” of London drew my attention to this study. The basic claim of the...

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Dubious link between strict parenting and overweight kids Those who did the study excerpted below admit that they left out a couple of important factors but they fail to mention the factor that REALLY explains their results “Clean your plate or else!” and other authoritarian approaches to parenting can lead to overweight children, a...

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THE DILEMMA OF THE POST-SOVIET LEFT After the collapse of the Soviets, the Left have no alternative to capitalism so they deny reality instead. Some excerpts below from an article by George Watson on their sad state: The commonest form of subjectivism in our times, moral or cultural, is to deny that any value...

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HOW SIMPLE IT IS! In the debate over immigration reform in the United States, some citizens have called for a halt to illegal crossings of the U.S.-Mexico border, while others contend it is impossible to completely stop the flow of poor migrants across the 3,000-km. (1,864-mile) line. But a new Border Patrol pilot program...

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