Author: Amy Ridenour

Kansas City Homicide: Media Reports U.S. Health System is to Blame

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The pro-socialized medicine lobbyists like to circulate U.S. health care system horror stories, such as this one they are circulating on email lists today (and which Daily Kos editorialized about here) about a man who allegedly murdered his wife, supposedly ...
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Seeing Right Through This Capitalism Nonsense*

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Drawn by the fact that he quoted the National Center's own Ryan Balis, I read this essay on the housing market by Al Pennam at Conservative Compendium. It's excellent. *Yes, the title of this post, taken from Al Pennam's article, ...
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Possibly Non-Existent Mouse Shatters Family’s Dreams

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A Wyoming family's dream to build an indoor horse-riding arena on their property is on hold because the area on which they want to build is designated critical habitat for Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse - whose existence as a separate, ...
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Fuel Economy Hypocrisy

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed Thursday in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on proposals in Congress to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards. Says Deneen, in part: ...Congress is grappling with raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy ...
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Washington Temperature Records

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From David Ridenour: The Washington Post reports today that "the temperature hit 102 degrees at Reagan National Airport, according to the National Weather Service, breaking by one degree the record for Aug. 8, set in 1930."The trouble is, this can't ...
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Maybe Bill Nelson Should Resign

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From husband David: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) has said he plans to convene a hearing to look into why Everglades National Park was taken off the United Nations’ “List of World Heritage in Danger.”But why bother? The Senator has already ...
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Washington Post Cheerleads Conversion of a Small Number of Evangelicals to Anti-Global Warming Activism

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Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post had a worthy entry in the category of wishful-thinking opinion-newswriting on page A1 of the Washington Post Wednesday, with her story "Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold." Based on the content of the piece, ...
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Power Line Asks About Journey Through Hallowed Ground

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Paul Mirengoff of Power Line has asked Senator John McCain what he thinks about the federal Journey Through Hallowed Ground legislation: Towards the end of the interview, I asked McCain about legislation recently proposed in the House that would use ...
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Missouri River Plan Hurt Local Residents

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In an effort to protect endangered birds and fish, a federal judge restricted the amount of dammed water allowed to flow into the Missouri River. As a result, water levels became too shallow for regional farmers to ship goods by ...
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Legislative Schizophrenia

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Monday discussing a particularly lethal form of legislative schizophrenia. Says Deneen: Congress can't seem to make up its mind: Does it support safer vehicles or oppose them?At ...
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