Author: Amy Ridenour

Barbara Boxer’s Mean Left Hook

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From husband David, some personal observations from the most recent hearing on global warming in Senator Barbara Boxer's committee: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said that she wanted to continue hearing from all sides of the global ...
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Veteran Taking on Chris Matthews is Project 21’s Kevin Martin

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David Almasi reports on the "veteran who took on Chris Matthews" after the Matthews-Edwards "civility" debate on Hardball earlier this week, noting that the black veteran in the video that has been circulating rather vigorously on talk radio and the ...
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The Senate’s Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

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Gary Witzenburg, writing on The Car Connection, explains the difficulties car manufacturers and consumers will have if Congress adopts into law the Senate Energy Bill's requirement that Corporate Everage Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, reach 35 mpg by 2020 for ...
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City Destroys One Auto Business to Make Landscaping for Another

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Claiming it was trying to save 4,900 area jobs, the City of Toledo, Ohio evicted 83 homeowners and 16 businesses so that carmaker DaimlerChrysler could use their condemned land to expand its manufacturing plant. City Destroys One Auto Business to ...
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CAFE Standards Hypocrite

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the prime sponsor of legislation adopted by the Senate Thursday that will require automakers, under Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), to drastically increase fuel economy to 35 mpg for cars and SUVs over ...
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Carbon Offsets: Why Pay More?

Get your discount carbon offsets here. (Yes, it's satire... I think!) Speaking of carbon offsets, am I the only one irritated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to "green the Capitol," in part by using taxpayer money to purchase carbon ...
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The Global Warming Scam

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Melanie Phillips has a great post on, as she puts it, "the global warming scam." Her first sentence captures the zeitgeist surrounding the issue perfectly: You know how we're told sixty times per minute that man-made global warming is no ...
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In Detroit, All Eyes Are Fixed on Congress

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Writing on TownHall.com, our Eric Peters examines the many challenges faced and (so far) surmounted by the Big Three domestic automakers, GM, Chrysler and Ford, in light of what may be their biggest challenge yet: A Senate energy bill that ...
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Rising Gas Prices, Tony Soprano-Style

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The Senate Finance Committee today approved $29 billion in new taxes on the oil industry. Some of the funds will be given to corn growers, who will continue to receive new taxpayer monies as long as the Iowa Caucus lives ...
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Black Conservatives Mark “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

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Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are asking that the oldest and most recognized commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States - "Juneteenth," observed on June 19 - be used as a day for reflection ...
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