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Blogs of the Right:
Blogs of the Middle & More
July 22, 2009
July 22, 2009even former Census Bureau directors, as well as hundreds of members of the statistical community and Census Bureau employees, witnessed Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke publicly swear in Robert M. Groves today as the 23rd director of the U.S. Census Bureau. Full release.
House Democrats use words such as "choice" in stump speeches on behalf of their recently introduced health care legislation, but according to an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF), the actual text of the bill tells a different story. NTUF determined that the words "choice," "options," and "freedom" appear just 85 times in the mammoth 1,018-page legislation, while three restrictive words -- "require," "limit," and "must" (and variations) -- were nine times more prevalent. Full release.
Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate rejecting an amendment to a Defense bill authored by Senator John Thune (R-SD) related to concealed weapons permits. Full release.
he U.S. Postal Service celebrated another example of its environmental leadership as it dedicated its first and New York City's largest green roof high atop the Morgan mail processing facility. Full release.
BRAC is leading a $15 million initiative to rebuild war-torn communities in West Africa, four organizations supporting the effort announced today. Full release.
With a new academic year quickly approaching, NAFSA: Association of International Educators and a diverse group of 18 organizations today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to remove current restrictions on academic travel to Cuba. Full release.
Leon Cooper, a WWII Naval officer who took part in six battles during his three years in the Pacific, says the above headline is America's Shame. According to the Department of Defense, there are currently 88,000 missing and unknown American military dead from WWII, Korea and Vietnam, with 90% from WWII, 8% from Korea and 2% from Vietnam. Full release.
Struggling for purpose in light of the election of the first black president, the NAACP moves in the wrong direction, says a group of black conservatives, when it endorses a climate policy in tandem with the World Wildlife Federation that is opposed by a majority of black Americans. Full release.