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How will Roberts Rule on Clean Water?
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Jan. 12, 2009 (Opinion)
In the mining case being argued today, the Army Corps of Engineers granted a permit for a gold mine north of Juneau, Alaska, to Coeur Alaska which allows the company to ...
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Foreshadowing the Bush Legacy on Coal
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Jan. 8, 2009 (Opinion)
To assess what has been handed down from his [George W. Bush] eight years in office is doable. To write about what will last long- term is harder. One exception, though, comes ...
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New FBI Guidelines: More COINTELPRO?
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Sep. 4, 2008 (Special Report)
[Disclosure: author is a NewsTrust staff member. The portion quoting Jeanne Roberts was added after her review and hence there is no reference to her relationship to the ...
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The Big Tent in Denver
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Aug. 28, 2008 (Opinion)
[Disclosure: The is a post from the blog of a NewsTrust staff member.] It seems some of the more serious conversation on the future of the Democratic party in Denver this ...
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Ecoterrorism, not
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Jul. 31, 2008 (Opinion)
[DISCLOSURE: This piece is from the private blog of a NewsTrust staff member] But Blue Ridge Earth First! activists as eco-terrorists? Five folks who blockaded Dominion ...
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Filibuster Threats Stops Energy Votes...Again
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Jun. 12, 2008 (Opinion)
What's causing the "pain at the pumps?" Like me, you may have read the oil companies and the Bush Administration's arguments that demand from China and India is responsible. ...
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McCain's Health Plan embraces troubled model
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Jun. 5, 2008 (Opinion)
Although the Journal would be expected to be sympathetic to Mr. McCain, it actually pointed out that the plan has more problems than those of his Democratic rivals. While all ...
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Cap and trade: "inefficent and ineffective"
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - May. 7, 2008 (Opinion)
Over the weekend, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two Oakland, CA EPA attorneys, speaking as private citizens, sent an open letter to every member of Congress indicating that ...
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Mr. McCain goes to Inez (KY) and tells us what women need
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Apr. 30, 2008 (Opinion)
April 23, the press covered Senator John McCain's stop in Inez, KY on his "It's Time for Action" campaign tour, seeking to emphasize his attention to powerless in our country. ...
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The Pennsylvania Presidential Primary
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Apr. 23, 2008 (News Analysis)
Yesterday, McCain senior adviser Mark McKinnon told USA Today reporter David Jackson, We're for anything that keeps it going. Jackson added that Senior McCain ...
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More on the FY2009 Budget and the Unitary Executive
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Feb. 19, 2008 (Opinion)
[T]he theory of the "unitary executive" ...has been used...since Nixon's time when "modern presidents have had a difficult time relying upon the traditional powers of ...
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Security, Privacy & Government Accountability
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Nov. 2, 2007 (Opinion)
As the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up its consideration of the currently proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) laws, advocates for the ...
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FCC Holds "Public" Hearing on Localism Today. Why the Short Notice?
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Oct. 31, 2007 (Opinion)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says that promoting "localism " is one of its key goals of its ownership rules, along with competition and diversity... Despite ...
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John Tanner comes to Congress (finally). What the fuss is about
The Writing Corner - by Beth Wellington - Oct. 30, 2007 (Opinion)
John K. Tanner has headed the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice since 2005... Tanner, of course, is not the only problem at ...
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