Author: Amy Ridenour

Activism v. Originalism

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Although this is an editorial, it makes for a snappy faux debate between Justice Ruth "Snoozer" Ginsburg and Chief Justice John "Dapper John" Roberts. If you read nothing else, read this paragraph: Ginsburg also offered the best definition of judicial ...
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Questioning the United Nations

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Japan is increasingly frustrated that it has not been granted a permanent membership on the U.N.'s Security Council. Japan pays more in U.N. dues than every permanent member except for the United States. Brett Schaefer and Janice Smith, writing for ...
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Senate Social Security Demagoguery

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The Social Security Choice blog has done an end run on the media near-blackout of the U.S. Senate's vote against the DeMint-Crapo amendment. The amendment called for an end to continuous raids on what millions of Americans mistakenly believe is ...
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Apple Vexed at France

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Apple Computer may decide to stop selling iPods to France. Seems the French government wants to tell Apple how to run its business, yet the amount of trade france generates isn't worth the trouble ...
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Deroy Murdock: Hating Bush at Home, Hailing Our Troops Abroad

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Deroy Murdock has a powerful essay on NRO detailing the savagery of the left's hatred for George W. Bush. Deroy also links to this New York Post story in which the mayor of Tal' Afar (Iraq) thanks the troops of ...
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Uninsured Americans, Part II

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More on a topic from Monday, specifically, the number of people without health insurance. John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute writes: A report from UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research figures that 900,000 Californian children are eligible for government ...
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The Endangered Species Act: Why Protecting Property Rights Is Good For Landowners And Species

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The National Center and Capital Research Center are co-hosting a briefing on the Endangered Species Act in the Senate Russell Building Monday, March 27. It is open to the public. Panelists include: Terrence Scanlon President, Capital Research Center IntroductionDavid Hogberg ...
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Global Warming Research Fears: Galileo Would Have Recognized the Feeling

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Kudos to the Canadians, as the Ottawa Citizen has published an article about University of Ottawa Science Professor Jan Veizer's new global warming theory. The article begins: A prominent University of Ottawa science professor says what we know about global ...
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Uninsured Americans: How Many, and How Do We Help?

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Matt at the Center for Faith in Politics blog disagrees with me on health care issues I raised when criticizing a New Republic editorial that makes this claim: Government isn't the best way to provide all Americans with health security ...
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Recycling Nuclear Fuel

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Physicists Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford, who are the star contributors of our Nuclear Policy Center, have a letter in this week's edition of the journal Nature (Nature 400) . The letter begins: We believe that your worry ...
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