Author: Amy Ridenour

Pepsi Gets Political

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PepsiCo's political activism is helping to cause elected officials and government bodies (such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors) to call on people not to buy PepsiCo's Aquafina -- America's bestselling brand of bottled water. Pepsi stockholders might wish to ...
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Democrat Leadership Limits Options for Frost Family and Other SCHIP Recipients

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Nancy Pelosi has been critical of people who questioned whether the Frost family of Baltimore really needs other people to pay their health insurance premiums. Yet it turns out she's not so pro-Frost herself: SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice; Democratic Leadership ...
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In Which We Are Condemned As Big-Spending Quasi-Liberals (on SCHIP, No Less)

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Dale Franks at QandO is bitterly complaining about my complaint that the Democrat Congressional leadership and its handful of Republican allies have a provision in their SCHIP expansion bill forbidding SCHIP families from making use of FSAs and MSAs offered ...
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Pete Stark on SCHIP and the War

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https://youtu.be/7lTUB5_l0Mg Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his gang were so, so upset that Rush Limbaugh used the term "phony soldiers." Will they object to what Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) said on the floor of the House? "You don't have ...
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The Debt Tsunami Begins: First Baby Boomer Files for Social Security

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Kathleen Casey-Kirschling became the first baby boomer to file for Social Security retirement benefits today, prompting warnings from those in the know that both Social Security and Medicare are both desperately insolvent. A Fox News report excerpt tells part of ...
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World’s Worst Neighbor

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Parents in Brooklyn were threatened with a $300 fine by New York City because their six-year-old daughter drew a chalk flower on the family' front stoop. It seems a contender for the title of "world's worst neighbor" called the city ...
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DeSmogBlog: Expect Confusion

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DeSmogBlog is attempting to undercut a petition drive by Art Robinson's Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine by reporting that Dr. Frederick Seitz, lead signatory on the petition and a man in his 90s, allegedly was "quite elderly and not ...
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SCHIP Poll

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The folks at Democratic Underground are encouraging each other to visit The National Center for Public Policy Research's new website covering SCHIP. We have a poll there asking the following: What should Congress do about SCHIP? Expand it Modify it ...
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The SCHIP/Frost Affair Continues; Paul Krugman Calls Me a Busybody

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I now have the dubious, but hardly unique, distinction of being the subject of an error-filled essay by the New York Times' infamous Paul Krugman. Subject: The SCHIP/Graeme Frost affair and whether adults on public assistance have a right to ...
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Behind Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize

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What is Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize based upon? Peyton Knight takes a look: Al Gore's receipt of the increasingly politicized Nobel Peace Prize comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for the former vice president. British High Court Judge Michael ...
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