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http://www.fee.org/iol/01/0104/lee.html Economic Notions by Dwight R. Lee   Economics The Problem of Environmental Protection Dwight Lee (dlee@terry.uga.edu) is Ramsey Professor at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, and an adjunct fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis.     A common belief is that economists don’t care much about the environment because they are preoccupied with money, markets, and material wealth. And when economists do consider ways to protect the environment, they emphasize benefits and costs, trying to express all values in terms of cash. This view is angrily expressed ...

Harvard sit-in asks for a 'living wage' By Stacy A. Teicher(The Christian Science Monitor) 4-24-2001 - The picketers were a loud crowd, if not a huge one, circling around the shrubs in front of Harvard University's Massachusetts Hall. "Harvard, Harvard, you've got cash, why do you pay your workers trash?" Inside the 18th-century brick building on the edge of Harvard Yard, President Neil Rudenstine and the provost have first-floor offices - and, since last Wednesday, about 40 uninvited guests. Members of Harvard's Progressive Student Labor Movement made their way in with sleeping bags and stashes of food, prepared to ...

Greens urge boycott of big U.S. oil brands By CNN's Grant Holloway CANBERRA, Australia -- Green political groups are pushing for a boycott of oil companies Texaco, Exxon and Chevron as a protest against the U.S. pullout from the Kyoto protocol on global warming. European Green delegates are leading the drive for a boycott resolution to be adopted at the Global Greens 2001 conference being held in Canberra, Australia. Many Greens believe that the decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to abandon the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was dictated by Bush's connections with, and political backing ...

FUNNY GIRLYenta Barbra Streisand's other letters. BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Friday, April 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT Barbra Streisand has sent a three-page memo to top congressional Democrats, accusing them of being "paralyzed, demoralized and depressed" since the election, Ms. Streisand's publicist confirms. "We have a President who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities," the singer-actress charges. "I hope you're through arguing among yourselves and distancing yourselves from President Clinton." Yesterday Ms. Streisand's publicist also confirmed she had ...

Confiscating Guns from America’s Past by Clayton E. Cramer Clayton Cramer (www.ggnra.org/cramer) is the author of Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform (Praeger Press, 1999). B y now you have probably heard about the new book by Michael A. Bellesiles, professor of history at Emory University. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture 1 is receiving all sorts of positive attention from the usual figures in the academic community and the media. For these reasons, it is important to understand what Bellesiles claims, and why he isn’t just wrong—he is ...

April 7, 2001 Wage-Gap Equation Is Calculated On Spurious Assumptions Gender feminists may as well go ahead and admit they're communists. It'll make things so much easier if we understand our terms. By "gender feminist," I mean those who believe in equality regardless of obvious differences. "They" want equal outcomes, period. The rest of us - Normal Feminists and Other Great?Americans - want fairness but understand that "gender" connotes differences and that equal outcomes aren't possible without draconian (read: communistic) government intervention. In other words, "they" believe in equality even if it isn't fair; "We" dirty rotten capitalists, who sometimes ...

More proof the liberals are getting hysterical. President put our children's future at risk By Richard Whiteford Energy crisis! Energy crisis! So go the cries from the Bush administration. Excuse me, but for years the conservative Republicans pointed their accusatory fingers at the Sierra Club and the scientific community when we decried the advent of global climate change, declaring us "hysterical alarmists crying that the sky is falling." Well, global climate change is very real, and it's here now. You know why? Because our energy source is carbon-dioxide producing fossil fuels. What's President Bush's remedy for solving his bogus energy ...

Commentary What would death of Kyoto Protocol yield? By Patrick J. Michaels Kudos to President Bush, the first world leader whose administration has publicly pronounced the Kyoto Protocol stone-cold dead. It's about time, and it's about mathematics. Kyoto was probably the dumbest international instrument ever signed by an American chief executive. Strong words, but easy to back up with a little primer on climate change. If we just continue on our merry way, doing nothing and with no specific attempt to proliferate technologies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the earth will continue to warm. Averaging up all of the ...

Nary a discouraging word from Maxine Waters. No yelps of outrage from Barbara Lee. No righteous indignation from Julian Dixon. No words of reproach from Juanita Millender-McDonald. Not one of California's black congressional representatives has seen fit to respond to a recent speech by the state's second highest ranking official, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, in which he referred to blacks using the "N-word." What made his use of the racial slur especially egregious is that it occurred during his appearance at a "Black History Month" event sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. The lieutenant governor apologized that ...

BETSY HART The activist Democrats shooting at Sen. John Ashcroft in his bid to become America's next attorney general have revealed ugliness about themselves - not the nominee. I'm not talking about their accusations that he's all but put on a pointed white hat and conducted black lynchings. I mean that the left has disclosed something else about itself in the way it has gone after Ashcroft and other conservatives chosen by President-elect George W. Bush to serve in his cabinet: They do not understand the rule of law. Again and again, for instance, I've heard Democrats ask repeatedly how ...

FAIR: Immigration is Much Higher Than Previously Acknowledged, New Census Data Reveal; Immigration Fueling Increase in Poverty and Medically Uninsured WASHINGTON and LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- New data released by the Census Bureau show that immigration to the United States is much higher than the government has claimed. Between 1999 and 2000, the foreign-born population grew from 26.4 million to 28.3 million. These new data belie official claims that the United States admits approximately 750,000 legal immigrants annually, and only about 300,000 illegal aliens settle permanently each year. The Census data also present irrefutable proof that immigration is ...

I remember two summers ago PETA was protesting outside of a local seafood eatery while wearing a giant plastic fish costume in 95+ degree weather. The great part was the joint was closed and the workers were tomenting the 4 PETA protesters. Now they protest with nothing on in 10 degree weather. Stupid must be contagious at the meetings.  

Bush can make world believe in compassionate conservatism By Ron Sider Dear President-elect George W. Bush: Many pundits predict that you have an impossible task. You have no mandate; half the voters doubt your legitimacy, Congress is almost evenly divided, and the economy may be slowing too much. You are a doomed soul. That analysis overlooks the possibility that behind this near-impossible situation lurks a historic opportunity. If you are to avoid a disastrous four years, you must heal wounds and build bridges. You told us you are good at that, and we desperately need it. Perhaps the best way ...

Saturday December 23 12:30 PM ET Clinton Unveils Plan to Integrate Public Housing By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a move likely to spark controversy reminiscent of the furor over the busing of students to desegregate schools, President Clinton (news - web sites) announced on Saturday a sweeping initiative to better integrate the nation's 10,000 public housing projects. Reaching out to minority groups one month before leaving office, Clinton directed public housing authorities across the country to survey their buildings and take steps to better integrate them racially and economically, the first such move in the public housing ...

Jesse disses black achievers Reverend Jesse Jackson recently phoned president-elect George W. Bush. Presumably, Jackson called to begin a working relationship. Remember, the black vote went almost exclusively to Al Gore, accounting for nearly 20 percent of Gore's votes. Why, then, should George W. Bush begin a "working relationship" with Jackson? Only a couple weeks ago, at a pro-Gore rally, Jackson thundered, "Today we stand surrounded, Jeb Bush on one hand, Miss Harris on the other, George W. and Cheney comin' from behind, the Supreme Court of Florida. But we will not surrender. Our hopes are alive. Our dreams are ...

I stumbled onto this article while doing some research on civil society. In reading between the lines, she exposes herself to be very scary. THE REMARKS HERE ARE ADAPTED FROM A TALK SHE GAVE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND. Civil society: the space that matters most. Author: Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1947- Source: New Perspectives Quarterly v. 15 no2 (Spring '98) p. 12-14 WASHINGTON -- As this century ends, any doubt about the effectiveness of organizing the economy along the lines of a free market have finally been put to rest. We now understand ...

Thanksgiving Proclamation George Washington City of New York, October 3, 1789 Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of ...

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful ...

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Offering Poor An Alternative To Vouchers By Richard Rothstein;  email:rrothstein@nytimes.com SUPPORTERS of private school tuition vouchers for low-income families say they only want the poor to have the same options as the middle class. But school voucher plans do not offer the poor a middle-class alternative. They do not permit enrollment in suburban public schools with small classes, attractive campuses, highly trained teachers and student bodies where high expectations rub off and become the norm. But the instinct of school voucher advocates is correct: the poor should have a middle-class education. Yet they are likely to get it only ...