Author: Amy Ridenour

Of Course, Maybe the Census Bureau Lied

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BizzyBlog has fun helping Neil Cavuto trounce Paul Krugman in a debate over real income. Krugman says it is worse now for the average person and the middle class, as compared to the situation 20 years ago. Bizzy looked up ...
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Project 21 Statement on John Bolton

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Project 21 released a statement Tuesday on the regrettable resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Meanwhile, Claudia Rosett knows where writers can get what seemingly is an easy writing gig for good money: The U.N ...
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Media Coverage of Global Warming Climate Change Debated

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On the eve of a hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on "Climate Change and the Media," Newsbusters is having quite a debate on the topic. For instance, a Tuesday afternoon post by Matthew Sheffield ...
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Smart Growth Legislation Discriminates Against Less Affluent Homeowners

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The Las Vegas Review Journal asks: "...what exactly is smart growth, who's behind it and how does it affect local property owners?" Reporter Hubble Smith's answer includes quotations from a Capital Research Center report by James Dellinger and the National ...
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Tidbits from Blogs I Read II

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Patterico is putting things in perspective. I really liked that post. In a similarly philosophical vein, Norma writes: When [a blogger is] grieving -- and I've read some really heavy, heavy blogs of chronic illness, death, job loss, crashing friendships, ...
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School Admissions Standards Based on Race and Ethnicity are Discriminatory

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Project 21 has issued a press release on the arguments before the Supreme Court Monday on the legality of plans that limit the ability of public school students to attend the school of their choice so that schools meet government-mandated ...
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Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: Please Name the Infamous 29

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West Virginia journalist Don Surber comments on Monday's Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Global Warming Gag Order: Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up," with a memory: As a West Virginian, I am not surprised by the intemperate tone of ...
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DeSmogBlog: A Wrecked Train Under the Big Top, Or Why I’m Not Taking Twenty Bucks from an Anti-Skeptic Attack Site

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For more than a week now I have had a #10 envelope perched on my desk lamp. It has a little sticky on it, with "???" written in inch-high red letters. Someone in my office opened my incoming mail and ...
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Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post Team Losing to a Bunch of Teachers?

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The Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post v. National Science Teachers Association kerfluffle continues, with the Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post team losing ground fast. Watch for the drive by media to lose interest in this story any minute ...
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BBC Reports on UN “Peacekeeper” Rapes

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An excerpt: Soldiers serving with the UN have immunity from local laws and it's up to their home countries to discipline them. More often than not, they're simply repatriated and the UN has little information about what, if anything, happens ...
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