Liberty Matters News Service
April 8, 2003
ALERT!
S.
476 Heading to Senate Floor This Week
S.
476, the CARE Act of 2003, also known as the President’s Faith Based
Initiative, is scheduled for a vote Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
Your calls and letters have been working since Senator Don
Nickles (R-OK) has indicated he will be amending the offensive Sections
106 and 107 of the bill, to allow any charity organization, not just
environmental groups, the ability to offer sellers a 25% reduction in
the capital gains of property sold.
However, this proposal still does not resolve the problem, but
thanks to your help they are now focused on these two dangerous
provisions. We need to keep
up the pressure to make sure these two sections are deleted from the
bill in their entirety. These
two sections provide a 25% reduction in capital gains to any landowner
who sells his land to a non-profit conservation group or federal agency
expediting the conversion of private property into wildlife refuges or
parks, taking land off tax rolls and lining the pockets of land trusts.
Call your senator’s offices today and request them to strike
these two sections from S. 476. The
Capitol switchboard #’s are (202) 224-3121, 800-648-3516 or
877-762-8762.
CARE
Alert 2003 Letter
S 476, CARE
Act Of 2003 – Sections 106 And 107
House
Resour
The
House Resource Committee last week, breathed life into a key portion of
President Bush’s national energy policy when it voted to allow oil
companies to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
The measure was narrowly defeated in the Senate when two
Republicans, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Michigan, joined
Democrats to vote against the amendment.
The loss so angered Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, that he vowed he
would not forget their disloyalty. The administration argues that it makes sense to tap into the
vast oil reserves in the Refuge to help reduce America’s dependence on
foreign oil supplies. Foes
of the plan say the area must be kept sacred and undisturbed so that
future generations will be able to enjoy the cold uninviting tundra.
Even with the support of House Resource Committee, the White
House faces a battle to convince both Houses to agree to the proposal.
Global
Warming Not New
Cheerleaders
for the global warming theory have been claiming for years that the
earth is heading for disaster because the harmful activities of humans
are causing the Earth’s surface to warm to unprecedented levels.
Those theories have been questioned many times, but now a study
by a team from Harvard University reveals that an even warmer period
occurred during the Middle Ages. The
team studied “temperature proxies,” tree rings, ice cores, and
historical accounts to determine that a “Medieval Warm Period”
occurred between the 9th and 14th centuries and was followed
by a “Little Ice Age” and that the earth began to warm up again
around the turn of the 20th century. Researchers believe the global warming hysteria is the
result of using temperature change over too short a time. Dr. Phillip Stott, professor emeritus of bio-geography at the
University of London, wonders what all the fuss is over warm
temperatures. “During the
Medieval Warm Period, the world was warmer even than today, and history
shows that it was a wonderful period of plenty for everyone.
When the temperatures started to drop, harvests failed and
England’s vine industry died. It
makes one wonder why there is so much fear of warmth.”
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), lead
agency in charge global warming propaganda, does not concur with the
findings. Dr. Simon Brown
cast doubts on the reliability of using tree ring data and said; “The
conclusion that 20th century warming is not unusual relies on
the assertion that the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon.
This is not the conclusion of IPCC.”
Perhaps the Harvard Team didn’t get the memo about global
warming.
Middle
Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists
Game
Plan, Eliminate Hunting
Hunters
and fishermen are in the sights of extremist animal rights organizations
whose “goal is to eliminate hunting and their game plan is to
eliminate it piece by piece,” said Rob Sexton, U.S. Sportsmen’s
Alliance vice president for government affairs.
There are hunting related issues being considered in at least 15
states this year. And while
some are friendly, such as the South Carolina proposal that will allow
the use of hounds to hunt raccoons and opossums, Maine is considering
banning snare to hunt coyotes and a California law seeks to prohibit
hunters from placing radio collars on their hunting dogs.
On the federal level, Sen. Joe Biden, (D-Del) plans to
re-introduce legislation making it illegal to conduct “canned hunts”
on private property.
Battle
Over Hunting Rights Plays Out In State Capitals