Author: Amy Ridenour

NAACP Downsizing Because It’s a Dinosaur

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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie is scoffing at the NAACP's explanation for its financial woes, reports Randy Hall at CNSNews.com: Massie laid much of the blame for the NAACP's financial problems on Julian Bond, director of the organization's board of ...
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NHS Blog Doctor: A Tale of Two Cancers

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I read this two months ago, and didn't blog about it, but I find I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. It's a blog post by a doctor in Britain. He sees two patients with similar ...
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Family Investigated for Sending Child to College

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An ace student who skipped high school to complete college was prevented from receiving the associate's degree she earned while still a teenager. Because the child prodigy was not 19 years old, state education regulators in New York did not ...
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462,000 Dead

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The Glasgow, Scotland Daily Record says: Poor [National Health Service] treatment has led to almost half a million Scots dying in the last 30 years, a new study has revealed.Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a ...
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In Britain, Where You Live Can Determine Whether You Live or Die

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Speaking of problems with government-run health care in Great Britain, Glasgow's Herald has a few things to say in a June 5 staff editorial: The idea of rationing medical treatment is one we instinctively find difficult. The National Health Service ...
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Parents Lose Legal Custody of Home-Schooled Children

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The Massachusetts Department of Social Services took legal custody of two children, not because of any allegation of abuse or neglect, but because their parents were deemed "unfit" relating to home-schooling their children. Parents Lose Legal Custody of Home-Schooled Children ...
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Home Schoolers Banned in Calvert County

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Calvert County, MD bans the use of a county building by home-schooled students on the grounds that such instruction, though open to the public, would duplicate county services and waste taxpayer dollars. Activities Banned From Community Center: Alcohol, Crime... and ...
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Christians Debate Global Warming

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From Peyton Knight: Yesterday, the Family Research Council hosted an event titled "Faith and Science in the Global Warming Debate."The debate featured global warming "skeptics" Dr. Calvin Beisner, associate professor of historical theology and social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary, ...
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CAFE Standard Increases: Here’s Why Not

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute has written a superlative op-ed on the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, that were approved by the Senate Commerce Committee in May. Among the CAFE facts Furchtgott-Roth shares with her readers: ...
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Free Transportation Service Shut Down by Government

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The Santa Barbara City Council drove pedicab operators out of business by requiring that they get a driver's license, undergo a criminal background check, obtain a business license and carry insurance. City Council Shuts Down Free Transportation Service Imagine a ...
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