Our View: Government crusades grow as power expands
Opinion piece argues post Cold War era sees fewer justifications for big government yet warns agencies grow unchecked. It critiques crusades from tobacco regulation to internet surveillance, gun control, and anti monopoly rhetoric, citing Clinton’s cyber warfare warning to question liberty threats. The author asks whether cyber threats or expansive agencies pose a greater risk.
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Tobacco
America
Congress
Microsoft
Justice Department
Justice
Bill Clinton
India
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U.S. Naval Academy
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Experts misdiagnose late talking children says Hoover senior
Thomas Lowell reviews how misread evaluations label late talking children as mentally retarded. He cites professor Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt and his study of bright late talkers, noting heredity patterns, common traits in mathematicians and musicians, and the danger of hasty diagnoses in high IQ kids.
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Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt Medical School
Albert Einstein
Edward Teller
Richard Feynman
Cal Tech
Tur
Professor Camarata
Camarata
Lowell
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Barry Goldwater remembered as ideological godfather of modern conservatism
Cal Thomas reflects on Barry Goldwater’s death and rereads The Conservative of a Conservative noting his libertarian stances on abortion and gay rights, his call for limited government, and his prophetic nine point plan against communism. The piece links Goldwater to Reagan and the rise of global conservatism.
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Soviet Union
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Pope John Paul II
Barry Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
Vietnam
America
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