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The Defective Right   By William R. HawkinsFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 27, 2007 Last weekend, the John Randolph Club held its annual meeting in Washington, DC. It is a project of the Rockford Institute, a group with which I have been associated for a quarter century. The JRC was founded eighteen years ago to bring together traditional conservatives and right-libertarians for a dialogue on issues of common concern. As Rockford President Thomas Fleming noted in his opening speech, the libertarians don’t much attend the JRC these days. Unfortunately, they have been replaced by left-wingers (libertarian and Marxist) whose mission...

CHICAGO Total advertising revenues for Journal Register Co. fell 4.7% in the four weeks ended Aug. 27 compared with the same period a year ago, the Yardley, Pa.-based publisher said Monday. For period eight, ad revenues were $32.2 million, compared with $33.8 million for the four weeks ended Aug. 28, 2005. On a year-to-date basis, Journal Register said ad revenues are lagging last year by 3.0%. On a pro forma basis, assuming it owned the same properties during period eight this year and last, Journal Register ad revenues decreased 5.9% from last year. Journal Register said this reflected continuing softness...