Author: Amy Ridenour

The Donald Rumsfeld I Know

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Not me, but former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith, writing in the November 12 Washington Post. Gee, the picture Feith paints is nothing like the one we've seen on the news pages ...
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Inside the Beltway on Defunding the Mysteriously Anonymous Front Groups

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John McCaslin's popular Inside the Beltway column takes a look today at our criticism of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe for calling on ExxonMobil to defund 29 unspecified "Climate Change Denial Front Groups": Burning Rex More reaction to the sharply critical ...
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Environmentalists Run from Their Own Issues

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Some environmental groups are claiming House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) lost his bid for re-election because he fought to improve the Endangered Species Act (not that they phrase it that way, but that's what he was doing), and ...
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Don’t Worry, Mr. Minister, It Doesn’t Much Matter

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Britain's climate change czar doesn't ride the bus. From Britain's Daily Mail: Environment Secretary David Miliband has been accused of double standards after being forced to admit that while telling motorists to switch to public transport to stop global warming, ...
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COP-12: Surviving the Carbon-Neutral Life

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In honor of the Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year, I introduce to you the latest in tools for a carbon neutral lifestyle: the Kyoto Survival Kit. As an accredited United Nations NGO (yep, really), The National Center is ...
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COP-12 Report: Environmentalists in Nairobi Issue Dire Predictions of Drought Even as Rain Falls on Conference

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Husband David, head of the National Center's NGO delegation to the COP-12 U.N. global warming conference in Nairobi, files his first COP-12 conference report for the blog: We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday to heavy rains. On Sunday, it ...
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Has Pelosi Seen Murtha’s Abscam Video?

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The news that Speaker-presumptive Nancy Pelosi is backing John Murtha for House Majority Leader amazes me, given what is on this FBI undercover video from 1980's Abscam investigation. Of course, there's a very good chance that Nancy Pelosi has never ...
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Senators Ask ExxonMobil to Cut Funding to 29 Unspecified “Climate Change Denial Front Groups”

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Apparently taking a page from Britain's Royal Society (if you missed that controversy, Prometheus has a thoughtful discussion of it here), Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympa Snowe (R-ME) are urging (pdf) ExxonMobil to stop funding organizations and individuals who ...
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Rationing Goods and Services to Fight Global Warming?

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The Guardian is running a column by Lucy Mangan today calling for worldwide rationing of consumer goods to combat global warming: You could be forgiven for feeling slightly overwhelmed at the literally planet-sized task ahead of us. I felt the ...
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British Foreign Secretary Compares Global Warming Theory Skeptics to Islamic Terrorists

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The British Foreign Secretary has compared people who disagree with her on global warming to terrorists: ...let us deny the terrorists the historical importance they claim to themselves. They have no right to speak for the great and noble faith ...
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