Author: Amy Ridenour

Weekly Standard: Adrift?

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Quick on the heels of its recommendation that conservatives support the Senate pro-amnesty immigration bill (for political rather than principled reasons, yet), the Weekly Standard is apparently laying the groundwork for a change in the conservative position on global warming ...
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Henry Paulson on Cap and Trade

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Following up my post about the Weekly Standard's green praise of Treasury Secretary-designate Henry Paulson, I'm recommending this Grist article about Paulson, which says "Paulson also worked with environmental groups including the World Resources Institute and the Natural Resources Defense ...
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Whole Foods Founder: Freedom Movement Needs to “Re-Brand” Itself

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Inspired by a daughter who is a serious fruit-and-vegetable lover, over the last year or so I've been shopping semi-regularly at Whole Foods, but I always figured I was probably one of the few non-lefties there. Guess not, as a ...
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Galileo’s Interrogators had a Consensus

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Another noteworthy global warming article appears in Canada's National Post. By Terence Corcoran, this one says, in part: It is now firmly established, repeated ad nauseam in the media and elsewhere, that the debate over global warming has been settled ...
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Media Matters Misleads on CEI’s Horner, Kyoto & Global Warming

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Media Matters is criticizing the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner for saying, on the Fox New Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, that ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty was not a high profile for President Bill Clinton during ...
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Interesting

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Quin Hillyer, writing on the American Spectator Blog, is sharing his notes from a quite candid dinner conversation with Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
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World War II Gasoline Rationing Redux?

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Project 21 Senior Fellow Deneen Moore has a letter in today's Wall Street Journal: Regulate Gasoline, Create a NightmareIn regard to the June 5 editorial-page commentary 'Tradeable Gasoline Rights' by Martin Feldstein: Mr. Feldstein believes that the government should be ...
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Art Gallery Displays Junk, Mistaking it for Art

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A note from Ed Haislmaier, a member of our board of directors, was so funny I had to share it: I give you, below, the modern art world's version of 'man bites dog.'While stories about art gallery cleaning crews inadvertently ...
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Should We Keep Reducing Air Pollution?

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Writing in the Washington Post, Joel Schwartz of the American Enterprise Institute says: ...in the real world, the costs of air pollution control mean higher prices, lower wages and lower returns on investments, reducing the resources we have available for ...
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What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About Immigration

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Brief thoughts on immigration policy for the blog from husband David: When I recently had occasion to see the Sesame Place amusement park's policy on line cutting, I just couldn't help thinking of the current debate over immigration.The policy states ...
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