Author: Amy Ridenour

SUVs: How Safe Are They?

National Policy Analysis #453 /
Fasten your seatbelts for some politically incorrect news: You are most likely to survive a motor vehicle accident if the vehicle you are in is big. Size and weight equals better occupant protection - it is basic physics - and ...
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Say “No” to Terrorists By Saying “Yes” to ANWR

National Policy Analysis #451 /
American television viewers recently received the dubious treat of television commercials telling them that if they drive SUVs, they support terrorists. The ads, produced by such renowned terrorism experts as the producer of the film "Pulp Fiction," claimed that SUV ...
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Liberal Senators Critique Bush Environmental Policy

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Liberal elected officials, including Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton (NY) Dick Durbin (IL), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Patrick Leahy (VT), Barbara Boxer (CA), and independent Senator Jim Jeffords (VT), have recently issued alarmist criticisms of President Bush's environmental record. Sample statements: ...
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McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) plan to introduce a new anti-global warming bill this week instituting a so-called "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions. McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has scheduled ...
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McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of Ecoactivists With New Legislation on Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #446 /
It's a peculiar and pervasive phenomenon in the nation's capital. Invent a major problem where none exists, then propose a complicated and costly solution, create yet another bureaucratic fiefdom and hand out scads of federal grant money and patronage positions ...
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Organized Labor’s Campaign Against Wal-Mart: No Altruism Here

National Policy Analysis #443 /
A group calling itself People's Campaign for Justice at Wal-Mart -- no doubt armed with battering rams, maces and other 14th-century accoutrements of war -- is preparing to lay siege to some of the huge retailer's 3,200 stores around the ...
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The Fairness Doctrine: Dead, and Justly So

National Policy Analysis #445 /
The Fairness Doctrine isn't fair and doesn't work. Furthermore, it most likely is unconstitutional. Sure, the Fairness Doctrine, which until its 1987 repeal required radio and television broadcasters to cover controversial issues with balancing views, sounds good. So those who ...
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Democrats: No Vision Means No Majority

National Policy Analysis #442 /
It is ironic. The Democrats lost their majority in the U.S. Senate because they haven't learned how to be a minority. If that seems senseless, consider: out-of-power political parties -- as the Democrats, holding but one House of Congress, surely ...
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ESPN: Hypocrites, and Yes, I Can Prove It

I'm posting very little of my email on the Rush Limbaugh controversy because there is too much of it (a lot of which calls conservatives a bunch of names while complaining about name-calling, amusingly enough), but I will address one ...
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When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is No Defense Department

National Policy Analysis #436 /
The so-called "Chemical Security Act" recently introduced by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) is laboring under a monstrous misnomer. By essentially placing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in charge of security requirement at the nation's private and public chemical facilities, the ...
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