Author: Amy Ridenour

Green Economics

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A few pieces to recommend on education: Nick Cheolas says: "Affirmative action allows those responsible for the failures of urban education to shirk accountability with a simple, ineffective solution..."Deneen Moore says : "In Harlem, at last, there is now a ...
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On Global Warming: Who’s Censoring Now?

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Next time you hear U.S. government physicist James Hansen claim the government is trying to censor him, consider this (paid subscription required) from Environment & Energy Daily (7/21/06): A chronic illness only partly explains why James Hansen decided to skip ...
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Sebastopol Meadowfoam-Gate?

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I suppose it was inevitable that it would come to this. In California, the Endangered Species Act may be being manipulated to stop "sprawl." ...
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Advisor to Soros, MoveOn.org Headed to Bush Administration?

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The Prowler is reporting in the American Spectator that new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is "expected" to fill a senior advisory position on his staff with "a current aide to MoveOn.org and Bush hater par excellence, George Soros." P.S. The ...
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Not for It, No Sir

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Leftie blogger Glenn Greenwald is expressing apparently heartfelt concern that conservative bloggers fail to show sufficient vigor in denoucing death wishes when such sentiments are expressed by fellow conservatives. I was heretofore unaware of our responsibility as conservative bloggers to ...
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Some People Just Don’t Like Good News

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When husband David sent out an op-ed version of this paper to newpapers, a lot of them ran it... ...and boy did he ever get hate mail. Addendum, 7/13/06: Mick at UNCoRRELATED adds: "Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with saying ...
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Corrupting Influences

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"Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has been spent since 1990 to research global warming. If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how ...
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Is It “Invidiously Discriminatory” to Call Black Conservatives “Uncle Toms”?

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note some irony in the decision by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson to use the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP to sue top White House officials in part for supposedly being motivated by "an invidiously discriminatory animus," since, on ...
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The Only Consensus on Global Warming is that the Sun Warms It Every Day

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Media Matters seems to be refuting itself. In the summary of an article criticizing the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell Wednesday, Media Matters said: Summary: L. Brent Bozell III misleadingly suggested that there is no scientific consensus on the existence ...
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Should Congressmen Make $850,000?

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Should members of Congress be paid $850,000 per year? According to Roll Call, after adjustments are made for inflation, they essentially did in 1873: Relative to per capita income, 1873 was the highest point Congressional salaries ever reached. According to ...
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