Author: Amy Ridenour

Larry King on Black Conservatives

ConservativeBlog.org /
I was going through some files from 1993, and ran into a paragraph in a Project 21 activity report from that year that I thought I'd share on the blog, since the man who said it (somehow) remains on national ...
READ MORE

Human Events Online: Corporations Funding Alito Opponents

ConservativeBlog.org /
This Human Events Online article by Timothy Carney caught my eye: Wal-Mart, Ford Motor Co., AT&T, and Fannie Mae are among the major U.S. corporations whose foundations fund the liberal groups now waging war against Samuel Alito.The left-wing Coalition for ...
READ MORE

Peer Review — Or Scant Review?

ConservativeBlog.org /
Those who are wondering how the stem cell scandal could possibly have occured (the apparently-falsified study appeared in the respected journal Science, after all!) should read this post on the Climate Audit blog. Some excerpts: It is unheard of for ...
READ MORE

CRESA: Property Rights at Risk In Senate

ConservativeBlog.org /
Property rights advocates who thought they could relax after the House voted 229-193 September 29 for much-needed relief to small property owners who have shouldered the enormous financial burden of the Endangered Species Act, think again: Senator Crapo's Endangered Species ...
READ MORE

Media Shield Laws and the Case of KPRC in Houston

ConservativeBlog.org /
Dale Lezon of the Houston Chronicle interviewed me the other day about a pending court hearing in Houston. TV station KPRC-TV is attempting to squash a subpoena from the Harris County, TX DA's office requiring the station to surrender unaired ...
READ MORE

ANWR: A Special Session of Congress Might Spur a Decision

ConservativeBlog.org /
Folks on the Hill are saying Congress may not act on ANWR this year. Same as last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, etcetera. Husband David has been saying that President Bush would serve the ...
READ MORE

A Weak and Feeble Woman

ConservativeBlog.org /
Richard Reeb, writing on The Claremont Institute's the Remedy blog, says: "In plain words, women need men's strength and resolution, even as men need women's civilizing." If men truly needed to be "civilized" by women, how could we accomplish it ...
READ MORE

The Commons Blog: Environmental Laws Lead to Ban on Death

ConservativeBlog.org /
Who says environmentalists are anti-people? In Brazil, a new law has caused one town's mayor to propagate the most pro-people plan possible. (Say that three times fast.). The Commons Blog explains how a regulation imposed by Brazil's National Environment Council ...
READ MORE

Mitey Ridiculous

ConservativeBlog.org /
Via Ann's Fuse Box comes news of a story about a British fireman who sued his fire department after slipping on "unseen dust." The fireman won a fairly large sum, and as a result, his firehouse has banned use of ...
READ MORE

Which Christmas Carol Are You?

ConservativeBlog.org /
Via The Night Writer, one of those silly quizzes which I nonetheless took, "Which Christmas Carol Are You?" My result: Apparently, I'm a traditionalist. Go figure. P.S. This is an Australian quiz. No sane American goes to the beach on ...
READ MORE

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.