Author: Amy Ridenour

Kim Priestap: Buried by Strangers

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Kim Priestap tells us about a man who was a national hero in his country and a Hindu, who had Hindu parents and a Hindu wife. When he died, however, an Islamic Court ordered that he be buried as if ...
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More on Supreme Court TV Coverage

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says it is "almost inevitable" that the Supreme Court will at some point allow television coverage. Chief Justice Roberts is agnostic on the question, but Justices Souter, Scalia and Kennedy are opposed. There is bi-legislation ...
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If You Live in a Risky Area, Buy Some Darn Insurance

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This Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel series about FEMA wasting public funds during 20 different disasters is infuriating. Two days ago, the House Appropriations Committee approved $19 million in additional Katrina relief, half of which, according to Reuters, will be distributed by ...
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Republican Study Committee Alternative Budget: Methadone for Spending Junkies

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The National Center's Ryan Balis attended the Republican Study Committee's alternative budget proposal press conference today, and filed a report and photo: At a Capitol Hill press conference today, members of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) introduced their alternative ...
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Students at Methodist College Arrested for Burning Baptist Churches

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If this had happened in certain other parts of the world, Baptists would be killing Methodists right now. Addendum, March 9: Please note: This post does not intend to claim that those accused of setting the fires are Methodists. Addendum ...
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Regarding Iran

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Scary stuff, from Varifrank. An excerpt: 'It will take decades for the Soviets to get an Atomic Bomb' - Spoken in 1945. 1949. Boom.'China does not have the economic capability to produce an atomic bomb for atleast another 30 years' ...
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CNN’s O’Brien Telepathic – Or Conspiring to Mislead?

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From David Ridenour: CNN's Miles O'Brien recently asserted that the Heartland Institute "desperately wants us to believe" there's a conspiracy to distort information about global warming. O'Brien said so in his Tuesday story about the Chicago-based group's March 2-4 international ...
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Wither the Line Item Veto?

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BizzyBlog and QandO are discussing the President's new proposal for a line item veto, and why it may -- or may not -- pass the Constitutional test. In my view the Court was wrong to strike it down the last ...
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How Did They Know The Bears Were Episcopalian?

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There is a bizarre story in the Washington Post today about the city of Richmond apparently spending tax dollars to search a landfill for the rotting carcasses of two decapacitated black bears in order to give the bears a proper ...
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On Media Leaks: Accountable Parties Should Answer to Public, Not to Stockholders

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I see from Technorati's data that 99 bloggers already have commented on the March 5 page one Washington Post story by Dan Eggen on national security leaks. I choose to draw attention to this short section of the piece: Leonard ...
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