Author: Amy Ridenour

Clean Water Restoration Act Scheduled for Senate Committee Vote June 18

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An important message from National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow R.J. Smith on the Clean Water Restoration Act, which is less about protecting our nation's waters and more about expanding the federal government's power to regulate private property ...
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Game, Set and Match to the Heritage Foundation

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The National Resources Defense Council has attempted to undermine the credibility of the Heritage Foundation's analysis on the cost of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade global warming bill. The NRDC would have done itself a favor to stay home from work that ...
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In London…

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...it's the 1970s once again.: "" It's a shame so many innocent commuters and businesses are going to be hurt by the London Underground (subway) strike. On a more positive note, perhaps the strike will help bring the world another ...
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Barack Obama’s Just Making Stuff Up

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Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal writes: "Something's wrong when the president invokes a formula that makes it impossible for him to be wrong and it goes largely unchallenged." Not quite. Two things are wrong. The White House shouldn't ...
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We Need the Energy; We Need the Jobs; We Need the Revenue

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In an op-ed appearing in papers nationwide this week, David Ridenour says Congress and the Obama White House are "shunning [an] economic stimulus that would cost taxpayers zilch, yet could create up to 160,000 jobs and up to $1.7-trillion in ...
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“I Think It Might Be A Little Intimidating That You Have A Stick In Your Hand”

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Michelle Malkin's latest column looks at Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to dismiss default judgments the Department of Justice had won against defendants charged with violating the Voting Rights Act in Philadelphia. Project 21's Mychal Massie has called for a ...
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A Somewhat Happy Ending to the Latest Death Threat Story

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...first covered in Climate Depot about the global warming believer and blog writer at the prominent liberal blog Talking Points Memo who asked: "at what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers?" The gentleman appears contrite. "The Insolent ...
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GE’s Jeffrey Immelt Fights Back

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General Electric boss Jeffrey Immelt faced a tough crowd at GE's annual stockholder's meeting in April, and it's just now becoming clear how much he minded. At the meeting, Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli asked if media reports that Immelt ...
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Barack Obama’s D-Day Speech

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I went to whitehouse.gov to catch a transcript of President Obama's D-Day remarks, but it wasn't there (replaced by some incredibly vague but nonetheless supercilious dribble about the alleged need to replace the world's best health health care system with ...
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Move Over Chris Matthews…

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...the "thrilling running up your leg" has just been outdone, and by a guest on Hardball, no less. Newsweek Editor Evan Thomas announces that Barack Obama is "sort of God" (link includes video clip). In the same comment, Thomas calls ...
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