Author: Amy Ridenour

University Researchers Hide Good News – Why?

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Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program deliberately hide its work? So asks -- and answers -- the National Center's Jeff Stier in an op-ed published today in Newsweek. Take a look ...
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Ex-Im Bank, Scorned as Wasteful, Spends $75,000 to Lease a Car

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Looks like the leadership of the Import-Export Bank is exceedingly sensitive to the fact that little more than a quarter of the public wanted the U.S. Import-Export Bank to be reauthorized. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. If I ran Boeing, General ...
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E-Cigarettes May Soon be Banned in the United States

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The National Center's Risk Analysis Director, Jeff Stier, tells me that e-cigarettes may soon be banned in the United States. This will set up a ludicrous situation in which e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine to users without cancer-causing tobacco carcinogens or ...
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More Indictments for Crime That Doesn’t Exist

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Although left-wing activists claim "voter fraud doesn't exist," prosecutors have somehow continued to find cases to prosecute. Are all these prosecutors right-wing racists? Unlikely. Latest case in the news comes from Florida, where, the Orlando Sentinel reports (hat tip: Election ...
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Starbucks Asked to Protect Employees’ Right to be Politically Active Without Penalty at Work

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Justin Danhof, general counsel of the National Center for Public Policy Research and director of its Free Enterprise Project, addressed the CEO, board and shareholders of Starbucks at Starbucks' 2016 shareholder meeting on March 23, 2016. Shareholders were asked to ...
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Socialism in the Bathroom: Insane “Free Tampons” Movement Wants to Divert Tuition Funds to Tampons?

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I wrote on March 12 about the insane idea that public restrooms “owe” women free tampons if they don’t charge for toilet paper. The logic, such as it is, is that if a toiletry item used by both genders (toilet ...
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Activists Demand Free Tampons Because Men Don’t Menstruate (Seriously!)

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This is truly the age of grievances. Case in point is the new political cause arguing that tampons should be distributed for free in public restrooms, simply because public restrooms almost never charge for toilet paper. From the New York ...
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Project 21 Members Stand up for Sanity at Mizzou

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Project 21 members Stacy Washington and Nadra Enzi, among other Project 21 members, have been taking to the airwaves to counteract some of the more extreme statements by radical activists at the University of Missouri. After Black Lives Matter founders ...
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U.S. Senate Makes Bill to Fight Opioid Abuse a Priority, But Why Isn’t This Best Left to States and Localities?

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Hate to be a skunk at a garden party (as usual!), but I question the conventional wisdom about S.524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, a bi-partisan bill that permits the Justice Department and HHS to make grants ...
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What the FBI Wants Apple to Do

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There's much confusion about just what the FBI is asking Apple to do in the matter of the locked iPhone that was used by one or both of the San Bernardino terrorists. FBI Director James Comey testified today before the ...
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