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	The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is a think tank concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. ACSH is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. ACSH is guided by a board of 350 physicians, scientists and policy advisors - experts in a wide variety of fields. ACSH was founded in 1978 by scientists who had become concerned that many policies related to health and the environment did not have a scientific basis. These scientists created the organization to add reason to debates about public health. Visit ACSH.
	Founded by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. in 1967 at Indiana University, The American Spectator is a leading conservative magazine. In 1985, the magazine and its staff moved to Washington, D.C., where it remains headquartered today. Recognized as a leader in training young journalists, writers for the Spectator over the years have included Tom Wolfe, Thomas Sowell, Robert Novak, and Malcolm Muggeridge. Current writers include Ben Stein of Ferris Bueller (Bueller) fame, politics columnist John Fund, and movie critic James Bowman. Launched in 2001, The American Spectator’s companion website is visited by tens of thousands of people a day. Visit The American Spectator.
	The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan, national security policy organization committed to the time-tested philosophy of promoting international peace through American strength. The Center accomplishes this goal by stimulating national and international policy debates involving regional, defense, economic, financial and technology developments that bear upon the security of the United States. The Center specializes in the rapid preparation and real-time dissemination of information, analyses and policy recommendations. The principal audience for such materials is the U.S. security policy-making community, corresponding organizations in key foreign governments, the press, the global business/financial community, and the public at large. Visit the Center for Security Policy.
	City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine, published each quarter by the Manhattan Institute and edited by Myron Magnet. The magazine offers a stimulating mix of hard-headed practicality and cutting-edge theory, with articles on everything from school financing, policing strategy, and welfare policy to urban architecture, family policy, and higher education. Since urban policy encompasses almost all domestic policy questions, as well as the largest issues of our culture and society, the magazine views its canvas as very broad indeed. Visit City Journal.
	The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. These principles can be found in the Declaration of Independence and are set forth in the United States Constitution. With over a quarter of a century of experience, we have built a national reputation as the foremost defenders of these two important documents.  Our projects and activities include a number of educational programs and the publication of the Claremont Review of Books.  Our scholarship extends from strategic to literary studies—in short, to all those subjects upon which free men must draw to preserve and perfect their liberty. Visit the Claremont Institute.
	Commentary is America’s premier monthly journal of opinion. Visit Commentary.
	The Competitive Enterprise Institute is dedicated to advancing free markets and limited government. We believe that individuals are best helped not by government intervention, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace. We are recognized as a leading voice on a broad range of regulatory issues—from free market approaches to environmental policy, to antitrust and technology policy, to risk regulation. In addition to reaching out to the media, policymakers, and other opinion leaders, we also take our arguments to court when necessary. This "full service approach" makes CEI an effective and powerful force for economic freedom. Visit the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
	Dynamist offers commentary on economics, politics, business, and design by Virginia Postrel, author of THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES and THE SUBSTANCE OF STYLE. Visit Dynamist.
	Eduwonk.com provides daily news, analysis, and commentary about education policy and politics. It is written by Andrew Rotherham, co-founder and co-director of Education Sector a national non-partisan education policy think tank. Rotherham is also a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and a member of the Virginia Board of Education. He previously served at the White House as special assistant to the President for domestic policy in the Clinton Administration. Views expressed on Eduwonk are his, or those of any guest authors, rather than organizational or institutional viewpoints. Visit Eduwonk.com.
	The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. Visit The Federalist Society.
	First Things, a journal of religion, culture, and public life, is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society. Visit First Things.
	Heritage.org is the flagship Web site of The Heritage Foundation, the nation's leading conservative think tank.  A cornucopia of public policy analysis, Heritage.org addresses virtually every major issue of the day.  Terrorism... Taxes... National Security... Federal spending... Health care... Immigration... Education... Heritage.org covers it all through daily postings of Heritage research and commentary, notes on breaking news and comments via the ever-lively Policy Blog. Visit The Heritage Foundation.
	Founded in 1992, the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is a non-partisan, non-profit 501 (c) (3) research and educational institution focused on issues of concern to women. Our mission is to rebuild civil society by advancing economic liberty, personal responsibility, and political freedom. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., IWF is unique among national women’s organizations in that IWF embraces the notion that individualism and free markets contribute to women’s equality rather than lead to their oppression. IWF is home to the next wave of the nation’s most influential right-of-center women scholars advancing, supporting, promoting, and defending economic opportunity and political freedom. Visit Independent Women’s Forum.
	InstaPundit is the blog of law professor Glenn Reynolds, author of "An Army of Davids," and revolves around politics, the war, technology, and music, with occasional forays into other things that interest him. Besides firsthand reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, handson gadget reviews, and references to interesting books and films, the site also features pointers to a wide variety of other blogs, and regular podcast interviews with all sorts of guests. Visit Instapundit.
	A comprehensive Web site run by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball contains analyses of presidential elections, Senate, House and gubernatorial races. Featuring political maps, an interactive newsroom, regularly-updated commentary on every major contest in 2006, as well as a frequent email newsletter, the Crystal Ball is provided as a free public service to help increase public awareness of national politics. All content may be used by educators, press and others with proper attribution. The Center for Politics is a non-profit, non-partisan public service organization located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball.
	The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research institute. Our mission is to seek innovative free-market solutions to public policy problems, relying on the strengths of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector rather than government regulation and control. Our Motto - Making Ideas Change the World - reflects the belief that ideas have enormous power to change the course of human events. The NCPA seeks to unleash the power of ideas for positive change by identifying, encouraging, and aggressively marketing the best scholarly research. Visit the National Center for Policy Analysis.
	The New Criterion, founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, is a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life. Written with great verve, clarity, and wit, The New Criterion has emerged as America’s foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars. A staunch defender of the values of high culture, The New Criterion is also an articulate scourge of artistic mediocrity and intellectual mendacity wherever they are found: in the universities, the art galleries, the media, the concert halls, the theater, and elsewhere. Published monthly from September through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today. The Times Literary Supplement declares, "As a critical periodical, The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English." Visit The New Criterion.
	Overlawyered "explores an American legal system that too often turns litigation into a weapon against guilty and innocent alike, erodes individual responsibility, rewards sharp practice, enriches its participants at the public's expense, and resists even modest efforts at reform and accountability". Its founder/editor is author and Manhattan Institute fellow Walter Olson, with added posts by Ted Frank of the American Enterprise Institute. Visit Overlawyered.
	The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. By focusing on public policy issues such as education, the environment, health care, entrepreneurship, regulation, and technology, the Institute strives to foster a better understanding of the principles of a free society among leaders in government, academia, the media, and the business community.  PRI publishes books and studies, provides commentary to leading media, hosts public events, and conducts comprehensive grassroots and community outreach. Visit PRI.
	PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center) is a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets. Located in Bozeman, Montana, PERC has a network of affiliated scholars around the country. Research is at the heart of PERC's work, followed by education and outreach. Visit PERC.
	RealClearPolitics. Visit RealClearPolitics.
	Reason Foundation is a nonprofit think tank dedicated to advancing free minds and free markets. Reason Foundation produces research that offers innovative and practical solutions on a wide variety of policy issues and publishes the critically acclaimed monthly magazine, Reason. Visit Reason Foundation.
	The Volokh Conspiracy -- A center-right weblog on law, public policy, current events, and more, cowritten by several legal academics. Visit the Volokh Conspiracy.

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