Author: Amy Ridenour

The Health Care News is Mixed

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Writing in the American Spectator, David Hogberg and Jeremy Taglieri relate hopeful developments in the battle to "move our health care system away from one that is mismanaged by the government and toward one that is more market driven." Jeremy ...
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Four of the Continental U.S.’s 15 Longest Hurricane-Free Periods Occurred Since 1983, Despite Global Warming Alarms

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David Ridenour takes another look at hurricane records: Global warming alarmists have repeatedly warned us that if we don't act now to stop global warming, we place our lives at increased risk. Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National ...
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2007 Hurricane Update: Have Records Been Broken?

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Putting the 2007 hurricane season in proper context, in light of environmentalist and newsmedia hype, is the focus of this post by David Ridenour: Hurricane Felix was the second category 5 hurricane this season. The newsmedia and global warming alarmists ...
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Being PC More Important Than Welfare of Children

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This pathetic story shows what happens when people -- in this case, local government employees in Britain -- place a higher priority on being politically correct than being morally right. I hope the people who put their fear of being ...
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Congressman Jefferson’s Racial Sensitivities…

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...are decidedly one-sided. He has had his attorneys file a motion (subscription may be required) asking a federal judge to move his trial on corruption charges from Virginia to either the District of Columbia or to New Orleans. Jefferson's motive ...
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Congressmen Supporting Clean Water Bill Should Remember Katrina

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Peyton Knight looks at Rep. James Oberstar's Clean Water Restoration Act, and wonders why Congress doesn't seem to have learned much from Hurricane Katrina: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) and many of his colleagues traveled ...
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114 Groups & Leaders Write Congress About National Heritage Areas

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The National Center for Public Policy Research on Tuesday delivered to the Congressional leadership, as well as the members and leadership of the natural resource committees, a letter signed by 114 organizations and leaders calling on Congress to stop creating ...
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Earmarks & the Kelo Decision Rolled Into One

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The Hill newspaper's Congress Blog covered the letter we organized, signed by 114 organizations and local leaders, calling on Congress not to support the creation of additional national heritage areas or federal funding for heritage area management entities, support groups, ...
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Would Ronald Reagan Support the Law of the Sea Treaty If He Were President Today?

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Supporters of U.S. ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty often claim Ronald Reagan would support ratification of LOST (also referred to as UNCLOS, short for "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"), were he with us ...
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Global Warming Comment of the Year

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After Steve Outing of Editor and Publisher wrote a column encouraging journalists to abandon any effort at objectivity when covering global warming, reader Tim Estes of Phoenix, Arizona wrote in response: Your whole contention about newspapers giving up objectivity, so ...
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