Author: Amy Ridenour

True Blue Mutual Fund IDs “Progressive” Companies

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Can a mutual fund have a political persuasion? Apparently so. Senior Fellow Tom Borelli (who also happens to be affiliated with a pro-freedom mutual fund, the Free Enterprise Action Fund) has shared with me a new development in the mutal ...
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Censoring Climate Change, the Stormtrooper Way

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The staffer at Grist magazine has retracted his statement that those of us unconvinced of the wisdom of the full range of policy prescriptions argued for by Al Gore et al on climate should be subjected to Nuremberg-style trials. I ...
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Peter Beinart Says Spending Hasn’t Exploded; David Hogberg Differs

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David Hogberg sent this over: I noticed this in an article in The New Republic by Peter Beinart about discretionary spending under President Bush: To listen to Bush's critics, you would think that discretionary, nonsecurity-related spending has exploded on his ...
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Nuremberg Trials for Global Warming “Skeptics”?

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Good grief. I suppose I should not be surprised. Some folks just can't stand diversity of opinion. (This reminds me of Britain limiting health care coverage to one of its senior citizens because part of its National Health Service didn't ...
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Earmarks to Help Fight for Earmarks?

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Is our Congress adopting earmarks to help them get approval for more earmarks? Did Frank Wolf Earmark Funds to Aid His Own Legislative Initiative?Group Questions $1 Million Earmark to Journey Through Hallowed Ground Foundation Washington, D.C. - The National Center ...
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Brendan O’Neill: Global Warming’s Chilling Effect

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The global warming debate is having a chilling effect... on free speech. So says Brendan O'Neill, writing in Spiked and his own blog, Brendan O'Neill. O'Neill begins by noting that "one Australian columnist has proposed outlawing 'climate change denial'," and ...
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How the Republican Party is like the Catholic Church, Except It Isn’t, Except It Is

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Vis-a-vis the Foley scandal, in an essay "How the Republican Party is like the Catholic Church" for the New Republic, Andrew Sullivan asks: "What is the closet, after all, if it isn't the steadily crumbling facade of internal psychic damage?" ...
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Washington Post Publishes Smear Obituary for Conservative Member of Congress

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The Washington Post, an altogether shameless publication on many levels, is running this inexcusable excuse for an obituary by Patricia Sullivan for the late Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a great defender of freedom who died in a car accident Monday. The ...
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American Spectator Previews

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A couple of things caught my eye over at the American Spectator Online: 1) Dave Holman has posted the video of Rep. Jack Murtha's 1980 meeting with an undercover FBI agent -- part of what would become the Abscam scandal, ...
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HSA Enrollment of 25-30 Million Expected by Treasury Department

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David Hogberg caught the Commonwealth Fund saying something that is patently false, in Congressional testimony, no less. Sarah Collins, vice president of the Fund, said this about health savings accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs): The U.S. Treasury Department ...
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