Author: Amy Ridenour

Fact-Checking? For a Fee, Perhaps

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Finally, a way to get accurate coverage from the press: pay for it. $100,000 up front and $10,000 a month thereafter appears to be the going rate. An interesting thing about this story is that the billionaire the Post staffer ...
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Chicago Defender to Rep. McKinney: Do the Right Thing

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The century-old African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender has this to say about and to Rep. Cynthia McKinney: McKinney has long been a freedom fighter, willing to stand up to oppression and fight for African Americans. She had the courage to ...
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Earmark Scandal? DOJ Reportedly Investigating WV Congressman Following Nine-Month National Legal and Policy Center Investigation

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Despite significant blogosphere attention to the dubious (or, at the very least, excessive) Congressional practice of "earmarking," I'm not seeing a lot of attention on blogs today about this press release from the National Legal and Policy Center: NLPC Complaint ...
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Save the Planet: Drive an SUV

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From Peyton Knight: A marketing research firm has announced the results of a two-year study that shows hybrid vehicles are more "energy expensive" over their lifetime than comparable non-hybrid vehicles and even a Hummer H3. Says Art Spinella, president of ...
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Black Conservatives on Cynthia McKinney-Police Officer Controversy

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Project 21 members have commented on the Rep. Cynthia McKinney imbroglio. Says Deroy Murdock: McKinney should be arrested and prosecuted for assault, just like any other American. That's called equal justice under law. She should look into it.Rather than explain ...
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AFL-CIO Official: “The Whole West Was Part of Mexico”

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The current (April 10) issue of Time magazine features a brief commentary on immigration by an official of the AFL-CIO: BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO The key problem is making felons out of everyone who is here ...
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Appreciating Bush

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Polipundit is feeling pretty good about President Bush. He's right about quite a bit of what he says, including the reminder that conservatives groused rather often about President Reagan back in the day ...
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The U.N. is Really Helpful (Not)

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From a Peter Brookes op-ed distributed by the Heritage Foundation: A blossoming Sino-Russian romance is undercutting U.S. global interests on an unprecedented scale. Indeed, Russia and China seem to have their eyes on restraining European and Japanese power, too. Start ...
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Frist: Medicare Facing Collapse Unless Fundamentally Reformed

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) on Medicare, writing in the Detroit News: With every passing year our nation's health insurance programs for the elderly, disabled, and poor draw closer to a crisis point. Right now, transforming Medicare may help ...
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If Only Walls Could Talk

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This London Sunday Times story is interesting: A pub must pay a fine for a murder on its premises more than 300 years ago.Auditors discovered the long-forgotten penalty for The Swan in Ipswich, Suffolk, while balancing the books for the ...
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