Author: Amy Ridenour

California Could Sue Itself for Building Highways

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I agree with Professor Bainbridge: Summary dismissal is called for. Addendum, 9/23/06: Blogotional notes that "Lockyer 'contributed to global warming' in the very preparation of the litigation itself." Hmmm ...
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In Which I am Unmasked as “PC Brainwashed”

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A correspondent takes issue with my post "No Blue-Eyed Foreigners Need Apply": Amy: I found your article entitled "No Blue-Eyed Foreigners Need Apply" an iteresting piece for your particular site which seems to be anti-socialist. Yet, this article you have ...
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Gore Goes Right-Wing on Payroll Taxes, But Supports Tax on Exhaling

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When Al Gore was vice president, I don't recall him ever saying that payroll taxes amount to "penalizing employment," as he now says: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday suggested taxing carbon dioxide emissions ...
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Global Warming Quiz II

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How many of the warmest months recorded over the last 300 years (central England data) took place during the Little Ice Age (which ended, roughly, in the mid-1800s)? A. Zero -- all the warmest months were recorded after 1880 B ...
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Portrait of a Cad

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From an ABC News story about the book-hyping activities of a past governor of New Jersey: [Former New Jersey Governor James] McGreevey now says his first encounter with [future alleged blackmailer Golan] Cipel, which occurred while McGreevey's wife was recovering ...
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2,996 Project: James Matthew Patrick Remembered

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Two days after he and his wife celebrated their first wedding anniversary, and seven weeks before the birth of his first child, James Matthew Patrick was on the 105th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center. His wedding ...
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No Blue-Eyed Foreigners Need Apply

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A Bloomberg story describing how Hirohito's newborn great-grandson will be under great pressure to produce male offspring has this xenophobic moment: Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma said at a rally in February that 'if Aiko becomes the reigning empress, and ...
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Deroy Murdock on Stethoscope Socialism

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Deroy Murdock covered the perils of socialized medicine in one of his recent Scripps-Howard columns: A national health-care system may be the Holy Grail of American liberalism... Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research sees this model ...
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New Report Warns Against Expansive New Regulation of ‘Invasive Species

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Washington, D.C. - Calls by some federal lawmakers to add burdensome new regulations to quarantine, to control or to kill so-called 'invasive species' are of dubious environmental value and represent a real threat to property owners, says a new report ...
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Real Men Don’t Sell Out

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Regarding this rumor, as reported by Time's Mike Allen... Bush's aides maintain that they're in no funk either. Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to ...
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