Author: Amy Ridenour

Guess the Date

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When was this written? The ...investigation of the Speaker of the House has been an opportunity to direct public attention to several issues that conservatives have considered key. Among these: the unprecedentedly heavy-handed tactics of the majority in Congress...; the ...
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And We’re Supposed to Believe Their Positions are Based on Principle?

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Ross Kaminsky, writing for the National Taxpayers Union Government Bytes blog, laughingly notes which eight corporate members of the pro-cap-and-trade U.S. Climate Action Partnership once were members of the anti-global warming-regulation Global Climate Coalition. The Government Bytes post is an ...
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Outrage of the Day: Congressmen and Businesses Supporting Economic Suicide Pact

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In a press release today, the National Center for Public Policy Research makes the point that the Waxman-Markey "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" (HR 2454) is akin to an economic suicide pact: Cap and Trade Bill Economic ...
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No Way It’s Torture, Says Mychal Massie

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No way it's torture, says Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie in his latest independent column for WorldNetDaily. Some excerpts (I particularly like the line about Senator John Kerry): It is a misnomer to call the techniques employed in the extraction ...
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I Don’t Watch Chris Matthews, But…

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...based on this Jeff Poor post over at Newsbusters, I'm guessing that he's never studied the global warming issue well though to engage a guest in a serious conversation about it. There's a great deal that's interesting to discuss about ...
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Outrage of the Day: 9th Circuit Harms U.S. Security

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Writing in the Washington Examiner, National Center for Public Policy Research board member Horace Cooper has harsh wordsfor a recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on "extraordinary rendition." Horace writes: A recent ruling by a three judge panel of ...
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The Extremely Cold Conditions Are Due to Global Warming

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The I Hate the Media blog covers the amusing story of the "ecological explorers" who had to give up their expedition to the North Pole intended to draw attention to global warming, due to unexpectedly cold temperatures. Richard Henry Lee ...
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Ridiculous

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eter Roff's May 18 U.S. News & World Report blog post about President Obama's speech at Notre Dame quotes the President saying the following about global warming: Your generation must decide how to save God's creation from a changing climate ...
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Locker Room Talk

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The John Locke Foundation's Locker Room blog has video of some rare on-camera locker room talk by a Member of Congress talking about Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), energy, and the proposed cap-and-trade bill. Worth a look if you are handicapping ...
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The Folly of Cap and Trade

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Tom Borelli of our Free Enterprise Project is warning against the folly of adopting cap and trade in a column in the recent issue of Power magazine: When the housing bubble burst, it exposed an unseemly alliance between special interests ...
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