By oversimplifying the costs and benefits of recycling, these leaders are encouraging action that results in unnecessary energy consumption, fewer choices for consumers, higher local taxes, and one more infringement on our civil liberties. What a pity that something as innocent and popular as recycling should be hijacked by those who have an agenda. If you were one of the hundreds of people who tried it for the first time, thank you . . . If you still haven't given it a try, check out the PolicyFax Update inside this issue of Intellectual Ammunition . A Picture of My Own Starting with this issue, the photo on this page will be of me and of recent vintage, rather than a childhood picture of a member of Heartland's staff.
Readers deserve to know whose words they are reading.
We could bring the baby pictures back, though, perhaps in a different place in the magazine, if enough readers requested it. Letters accompanied by checks will be given special attention.