Author: Amy Ridenour

The National Center for Public Policy Research is Not a Member of the Cooler Heads Coalition

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Our Jeff Stier's excellent article "With Its Soda Tax, Mexico Repeats The Mistakes Of Mayor Bloomberg" in the Chicago Tribune yesterday drew the ire of a hostile commenter, who responded to Jeff's piece about the usefulness (not) of soda taxes ...
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Job Opening: National Center for Public Policy Research Seeks Assistant to the Executive Director

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The National Center for Public Policy Research is seeking a hard-working, detail-oriented person to serve as an assistant to the executive director. The job is full-time (9-5:30, M-F) on-site at our headquarters a short walk from Union Station on Capitol ...
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Why is the White House Residence Still Open?

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NASA has kicked its interns -- at least one from as far away as Puerto Rico, so you know he's not going to commute from home -- out of government housing due to the partial government shutdown. The federal government ...
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Is it the Onion… or is it Slate?

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Sometimes the left approaches satire in its ongoing propaganda campaign to make the partial government shutdown seem worse than it is. Take Amanda Marcotte's October 1 Slate article "Government shutdown: From WIC to the panda cam, seven ways the shutdown ...
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Another Fun Expose of Famous Climate Activist Who Doesn’t Know Much About Climate

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I wrote yesterday about a famous climate alarmist, Canada's David Suzuki, making a fool of himself on Australian TV last week. It seems Canada's Al Gore has been happy to repeatedly say politicians who "ignore the science on climate change" ...
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Famous Global Warming Activist Says Elected Officials Who Don’t Know Climate Science are Committing a “Crime”; Then Exposes Himself as Not Having Followed the Science

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Global warming alarmists can be absolutely shameless. Take David Suzuki, Canada's Al Gore and a man famous throughout the English-speaking world (except, blissfully for us, in the United States). Suzuki believes it should be a crime for politicians to "ignore ...
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How the Left is Misleading You About Food Stamp “Cuts”

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If you listen to the left, you're probably hearing about food stamp "cuts." "The U.S. House of Representatives debated a bill to slash food stamps by some $40 billion dollars over the next decade." - Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour, 9/19/13 ...
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Top Liberals Refine Terms to Weasel Out of Responsibility

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Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is." John Kerry: "I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it." Former HHS ObamaCare official on ObamaCare exchanges launch: "You may see a redefinition of what 'start' ...
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Man Up, Washington Post!

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How frightened is the Washington Post of being accused of racism? Apparently, very. As the Washington Navy Yard shootings story was still breaking mid-day today, the Post hastened to assure its readers that a witness to the who identified a ...
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Shame on You, Rachel Maddow

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Jesse Helms was no racist. If smearing a dead man who can't defend himself strikes you and your staff as the best way to criticize Senator Ted Cruz, then, arguably, you must think Cruz is pretty darn near perfect ...
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