Author: Amy Ridenour

2007 Hurricane Season: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion?

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Husband David Ridenour examines the 2007 hurricane season in light of environmentalist claims about a link between hurricanes and global warming: Environmentalists can't be very happy with the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season so far. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
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A Pet Peeve Post

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I agree with this (though not necessarily the comments!). Why do community pools have "adult swim," anyway? I can see it when done as an opportunity to let adults swim laps, but if that were the purpose, banning kids from ...
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Concerned About Carbon? Use Wood

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Writing in the Vancouver Sun, environmental activist Patrick Moore explains why people who want to remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere should use, and envcourage others to use, wood products ...
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Congress Covering Up Crime?

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Not their own -- donors'. As the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, nearly 800 convictions in si years -- a staggering number -- have occurred as a result of audits and investigations of labor unions conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's ...
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For Michael Vick and Hip-Hop Culture, No Sympathy from Kevin Martin

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Michael Vick and hip-hop culture are the focus of these thoughts by Project 21's Kevin Martin: Hip-Hop Hype Hurts, Just Ask Michael Vick Hip-hop culture has claimed a high-profile victim: Michael Vick. I refuse to have an ounce of sympathy ...
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Mychal Massie on C-SPAN

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Mychal Massie, chairman of Project 21, was a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning, where he took questions from Brian Lamb and callers, and discussed a bevy of public policy issues, his thoughts on race, religion and such subjects ...
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Britain’s Government Health System Rules $5 a Day Too Much for Drug to Battle Alzheimer’s

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I can't improve on Tom Blumer's post about Britain's National Health Service's ruling denying Aricept to people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's -- to save money. In a post last year, I discussed Britain's denial of the drug Herceptin -- a standard ...
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A Message for the Lady Who is Suing Don Imus

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Project 21's Dutch Martin has a few words for the young lady who is suing Don Imus: As a race, blacks endured hundreds of years of slavery and then legalized segregation, brutal racism and other forms of discrimination well into ...
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Rare Identical Quadruplets Born; Already Mistreated by Canada’s Socialist Medical System

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At the end of this sweet story about a Canadian woman, Mrs. Karen Jepp of Calgary, giving birth to a set of identical quadruplets (who were conceived without fertility drugs, the AP irrelevantly tells us) comes this: The Jepps drove ...
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Another Idiotic Environmentalist Opinion

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I don't usually use words like "idiotic," even when appropriate, but this gentleman's correspondence makes the word especially apt. Our position on invasive species legislation, as shown here, is that it "should be case-specific, weigh species' benefits against costs, and ...
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