Author: Amy Ridenour

Environmentalists are Hypocrites

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Environmentalists scream bloody murder when the Administration involves itself in the preparation of government science-related press materials and reports, mistakenly screaming "censorship" when government scientists are required to follow even the most benign procedures. On the other hand... Environmentalists also ...
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Kennedy Mum on Chavez?

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Now that several days have passed since Venezuela's "legislature" gave Hugo Chavez a dictator's powers, I thought I'd visit the website of his American buddy, former Congressman and Citizens Energy Corp CEO Joseph P. Kennedy II, to see if Kennedy ...
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300+ Years of Activity Will Lead to Results 100 Years From Now

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Check out the math in this AP lede: Global warming is so severe that it will 'continue for centuries,' leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Turns 25

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I wouldn't want to let the day go by without -- rather self-indulgently -- wishing a happy birthday to us. Although the National Center for Public Policy Research was legally incorporated on September 14, 1981, our first day of business ...
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Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad?

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The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this ...
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Enron’s Green-Fingered Successors

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I won't let the week end without a fisking of the Washington Post's silly global warming op-ed Monday by in-house writer Sebastian Mallaby. Mallaby says: "While the White House was sorting out its message, the rest of Washington was busy ...
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Los Angeles Times Runs Kitty Kelley Op-Ed Blasting Bush Family Without Fact-Checking

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The Los Angeles Times and Harper's have a bit of egg on their faces. The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Kitty Kelley last week claiming that no one in George W. Bush's extended family -- daughers, neices or ...
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If You Think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Presents Objective Science…

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read this. Labels: Climate, Environment ...
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Social Security: A Quick Definition

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Willisms describes our current Social Security system: The government confiscates your money, keeps it for decades, gives you back a terrible return on your money, then taxes you for the privilege. (Until the system goes bankrupt, that is.) Labels: Social ...
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Global Cooling Again

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If you follow global warming debates, you've heard how environmentalists and their media allies predicted global cooling in the 1970s, only to reverse course in the 1980s. Well, everything old is new again. Russian scientists are now predicting global cooling, ...
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