Author: Amy Ridenour

Liberal Congresswoman Calls for Federal Drug Tests for Farmers If Food Stamp Recipients Get Them

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Why shouldn't farmers have to get drug-tested before they receive agricultural subsidies or participate in federal agriculture programs, if people on various welfare programs, including food stamps (SNAP), do? So asks Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in a Colin Taylor article ...

Hollywood Specializes in Fiction – Beware of Following Its Policy Advice

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As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets tonight in California to give awards to itself, it is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that there's a reason Hollywood specializes in fiction. Example #1 is ...

Apple Shareholders Reject Shareholder Proposal Claiming Board is “Too Vanilla” (aka, White)

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Lack of diversity has long been a problem among the many Silicon Valley companies that employ mostly white men. Apple has said previously it would work to address gaps in employee diversity. -Time, "Apple Shareholders Reject Plan to Recruit Minorities ...

Starbucks May Soon Have the World’s Largest Menu

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Does the fact that there are 36,000 possible Frappuccino combinations at Starbucks mean that Starbucks soon must print the calorie count for all 36,000 combinations on its menu, under little-known regulations brought to us by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? ...

Liberals, It’s a Lie to Say Criticism of Obama Is Because He’s Black

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To hear MSNBC tell it, Obama is prohibited from doing many things because of his black ancestry. Case in point is an on-air discussion between MSNBC employees Joy Reid and Chris Matthews, in which Reid alleges that Barack Obama "uniquely" ...

Nannystaters Try Censorship Again, Put Lives at Stake

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The National Center's Jeff Stier is in Salt Lake City today, where he and a group of about thirty people politely, and silently, held signs opposing a massive 86.5 percent tax hike on e-cigarettes, the tobacco-free devices that permit people ...

Obama and Friends Cry False Racism for Supreme Court Battle

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I wrote yesterday about President Obama's attempt to cast the coming Supreme Court confirmation battle as being about him personally, so he can cast it as an issue of mostly white Senators opposing the nominee of a (half) black President ...

It’s Not About You, Mr. President

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Handing more ammo to people who suspect he's a narcissist, President Obama in his news conference today referred to Senators who might choose not to give consent to a future judicial nominee of his as doing so because they "don't ...

Genital Checks: Not Coming to a Restroom Near You

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Left-wing websites have in recent weeks been running false stories that Republican legislators in various states are introducing bills to mandate "genital checks" - literally, genital inspections, on the public to make certain their anatomical gender matches the restroom they ...

March for Life: Will the Washington Post Cover It As It Did in 2014 (Fairly), or 2015 (Not)?

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It's no secret that the mainstream media under-reports the massive "March for Life" held every January 22nd in Washington, D.C. Will it do any better this year? In 2013, the National Center for Public Policy Research's David Almasi took the ...

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