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- April 11, 2000
The facts are as follows:nbsp; Fidel Castro runs Cuba.nbsp; His government is communist.nbsp; As in all communist countries, the guns on the borders are aimed inward.nbsp; Cubans trying to leave without permission are hunted down, killed, or imprisoned.nbsp; Castro has sent helicopters to drop sandbags onto makeshift rafts crowded with people trying to escape his
READ MOREMedicare Reform Must Precede A Prescription Drug Benefit:0
- April 6, 2000
Usually the Independence Institute only publishes documents written by Independence Institute authors. We made an exception here because this material is an excellent explanation of the tremendous public health problems that would be created by President Clinton’s proposal for price controls on prescription medicines. Thus, even though we have no position on the author’s proposal to expand Medicare to include out-patients, we think that the author’s description of disaster that price caps would create is very much worth reading.
READ MORELeftist Actions Speak Louder Than Words0
- March 28, 2000
The peculiar mix of doublespeak and intransigent intolerance that characterizes the Left was on full display in three separate incidents last week.
Before Charlton Hestons March 21 speech at CU-Boulder, the Colorado Daily reported that 2nd Amendment defenders protested loudly but peacefully outside Macky auditorium until a large contingent of gun-control advocates arrived. [1] Tensions rose. Mr. Robert Howell threw a punch at another man, scuffled briefly, and was wrestled to the ground by police officers. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported that Mr. Howell is vice-president of the Boulder chapter of the Bell Campaign.[2] Charitably speaking, the Bell Campaign consists of utopian dreamers who would consider even complete gun prohibition a reasonable restriction, and who believe that when guns are outlawed not even criminals will have guns. Its accuracy can be gauged from its web page where, as of this writing, it calls Boulder a suburb of Denver.[3]
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The Public Housing Mess in Denver0
- March 28, 2000
The old Arapahoe Courts public housing project in Denver has been demolished; all that remains are six blocks of dirt along Arapahoe Street, from 27th to 33rd streets in Denvers Curtis Park neighborhood. The barracks style project was demolished by the Denver Housing authority with the help of a hefty grant (read tax dollars) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Having provided the money to tear down a failed public housing project, the federal government is ready to pay for the construction of a new public housing project.
READ MOREExtremists Create Stress for Gain0
- March 21, 2000
According to the chattering classes, modern times are the most stressful ever.nbsp; Im stressed excuses everything from forgetting appointments to neglecting the kids.nbsp; People spend billions on stress remedies and are said to be desperate for stress relievers.nbsp; According to Pam McCracken, director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Education at Colorado State University,
READ MOREIs Mental Health Treatment A Fraud?0
- March 14, 2000
According to Robyn Dawes, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and a distinguished researcher on psychological evaluation and decision-making, the evidence is quite clear. Mental health practitioners possess no special insights into the individual human condition.
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