Author: Amy Ridenour

Medicare for All? No Thanks, Part II

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More on AlterNet's prescription of "Medicare for All" from our senior policy analyst David Hogberg: Continuing my deconstruction of Joshua Holland's AlterNet polemic in favor of single-payer health care, let's now look at administrative costs. Holland claims: People grumble quite ...
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Peace Prize Winner Tells Kids She Wants to Kill President Bush

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I missed this story about the Nobel Peace Prize winner who told an audience of children that she "would love to kill George Bush." I've come to believe that anyone who wins a major award is best avoided. Awards seem ...
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Muzzling Facts about the Violence Against Women Act

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Looks like global warming isn't the only issue in which folks try to win by muzzling those who disagree. Trudy Schuett writes to say that it also happened regarding the Violence Against Women Act: Global warming isn't the only issue ...
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The United Nations Legacy of Anti-Semitism

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If the intemperate United Nations response to Israel's defense of its citizens, or U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's off-the-cuff, before-any-investigation charge that Israel deliberately targeted U.N. peacekeepers surprises you, check out a small sample of facts National Center policy analyst ...
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Medicare for All? No Thanks, Part I

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Senior policy analyst David Hogberg takes issue with a health care policy prescription made on the popular leftie website AlterNet: Over at AlterNet, Joshua Holland argues that the way to universal coverage - which he inexplicably supports -- is to ...
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Global Warming and Censorship, Part III

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Continuing the followup to my post about climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, global warming, and censorship (which began here): 1) Commenter Wayne Hall on the RealClimate blog suggests that my blog entry about Hansen is so bad, the entire National ...
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Think Progress’s Double-Standard

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I notice that Think Progress is drawing attention to Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK)'s comparison of the public relations effort promoting the global warming theory to Adolf Hitler's "Big Lie." For those unfamiliar with the "Big Lie," Think Progress describes it ...
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Evangelical Leaders Say Carbon Dioxide Caps Would Harm Poor

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Our Peyton Knight files a report from a Heritage Foundation event he attended today: Today, at an event hosted by The Heritage Foundation, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliancereleased a new paper titled "A Call to Truth, Prudence and the Protection of ...
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On Global Warming: Censorship, or Diversity?

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My Friday post about NASA scientist James Hansen's reported unwillingness to participate in a Congressional hearing on global warming because the Committee included what Hansen calls "contrarians" in its invitation list brought this thoughtful letter of disagreement: Ms. Ridenour, I ...
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Meanness is a Choice

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According to this story in the Salt Lake Tribune, Kallie and Darren Galbraith of Nelphi, Utah are are -- well, choose your own adjectives. The Galbreaths posted a sign in their yard saying "CAUTION, RETARD'S IN AREA" -- a sign ...
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