Author: Amy Ridenour

ExxonMobil on Gas Prices: We Couldn’t Manipulate the Price Even If We Wanted To

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On behalf of this blog, The National Center's Peyton Knight participated in a blogger conference call this afternoon with ExxonMobil Vice President Ken Cohen. The following is Peyton's report: Along with eight representatives from various other weblogs, I participated in ...
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Caveat Emptor, Magazine Readers

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Writing for the American Spectator, David Holman notes that a writer for the New Republic made stuff up. Holman appears to be surprised, but it is a habit over there. Addendum: The New Republic says it wasn't fiction, but hyperbole ...
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National Fuel Economy Standards to be Raised by Some Guy in California Who Thinks He Knows Best

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This gentleman was merely elected to a statewide post in California, yet believes he should set national law -- in this case, on the matter of national fuel economy standards. Perhaps he believes legislatures are such inefficent bodies that we ...
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What America Needs: More Goof-Offs

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Could this AP report on the illegal aliens' goof-off day be any more one-sided? Not easily. My best idea for making the AP report even more favorable to the illegal alien cause would be to decorate the text with a ...
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Jean-Francois Revel’s Extraordinary Contribution

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Via Michelle Malkin comes the news that Jean-Francois Revel has died. Had he done nothing more than write his Cold War wake-up call "How Democracies Perish," his contribution to the world would have justly been called extraordinary -- yet he ...
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Parents May Be Fined for Helping Their Own Son

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The Cleveland Bar Association has made an outrageous decision: It is attempting to get an Ohio couple fined because they went to court on behalf of their minor son without hiring a lawyer. Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The bar ...
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Limbaugh Drug Charge Settlement Mischaracterized in Talking Points Memo

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Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall has posted commentary to the effect that the settlement of the state charges in the Rush Limbaugh case is actually a plea agreement, implying that Limbaugh must have confessed guilt: Don't get bamboozled. In criminal ...
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When Will Politicians Learn to Stay Away from Anything Related to the Watergate?

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From TPM Muckraker : It's me-too time for Hookergate. The AP filed its story on the scandal last night, with no new details. The WPost, no doubt burned up that they missed the biggest Watergate-related scandal since, well, Watergate... Second-biggest? ...
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Deroy Lives in New York. I Guess You Can Tell.

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Josh Marshall does not seem to be entirely won over by Deroy Murdock's latest column. On the other hand, I loved it. A bit of advice from Deroy to the White House: "Don't leak; speak." Or another: "Leaking to the ...
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Bill Bennett v. Howard Kurtz

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Noel Sheppard on Newsbusters has posted a transcript of a debate between Bill Bennett and Howard Kurtz on the question, as phrased by Noel, "should journalists that report leaked military secrets during a time of war receive Pulitzer Prizes or ...
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