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October:

Policy Analyst James Plummer was quoted in an Oct. 7 Washington Times story on drivers' licenses standards in the "intelligence reform" bill being a de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually.

This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate.
 national ID system.

Oct. 11: Plummer quoted in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times piece on drivers' licenses and national ID.

The New York Daily News New York Daily News

Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S.
 ran Executive Director Frances B. Smith letter on prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug,  prices on Oct. 20.

November:

Smith's taped interview on holiday gift returns ran in several television markets the week of Nov. 22, incluing Chicago, Colombus OH and Columbia SC.

December:

The Financial Times ran Smith's letter on antitrust Antitrust

The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and marketing. They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade.
 policy, 'Consumers should trust markets, not lawyers,' on Dec. 2.

Plummer was quoted in a Reason online article about financial privacy and the intelligence bill on Dec. 5.

Plummer was quoted on shoe-searches of travellers in the Dec. 7 Washington Post.

Policy Analyst Barbara Rippel's op-ed "One Step at a Time" on pharmaceutical research was in National Review Online on Dec. 7.

Plummer's letter'Reform goes too far' about national ID and financial privacy ran in the Dec. 8 Washington Times.

Plummer was quoted about drivers' licenses and national ID in a New York Times article on Dec. 9. The story also ran in the International Herald-Tribune and other papers.
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