Author: Amy Ridenour

Cut Spending, Reform Entitlements Now: Category 6 Fiscal Hurricane Coming

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A scary article by Richard Wolf in USA Today says, in part: From the political left and right, budget watchdogs are warning of fiscal trouble:* Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, dispassionately arms 535 members of Congress ...
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Just Barely Inside the Beltway: The Ambiguous Postal Rate Hike of 2006

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Maybe Congress is planning to tell the Postal Service to build a few bridges in Alaska. Nice of them to make the 37-cent Ronald Reagan postage stamp obsolete so soon. It didn't even get a full year ...
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Tony Blankley: The Stench of Defeatism

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Tony Blankley is in fire. Topic is the Senate and Iraq. An excerpt: Monday, for the first time, the foul odor of the Vietnam War denouement wafted through the Senate chamber during the debate on Iraq. The Democrats called for ...
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Weenie Hugo Chavez Whines Again

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The news in this BBC story strikes me as a big deal: Mexico and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries. Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the move minutes after Venezuela said it was ...
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Maxine Waters Has It Right

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From the November 15 Wall Street Journal: Post-Kelo, conservatives made the case that the Supreme Court's ruling was a dangerous interpretation of the Constitution's takings clause. Now some liberals are catching on. "We don't need you on this one," said ...
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Men Are More than Sex Objects, Maureen

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Based on this transcript excerpt published on the Political Teen blog, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times appears to be spending a lot of time thinking about George Bush's and Donald Rumsfeld's bodies ...
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Jeff Jacoby: The Real Oil and Gas Profiteers Are the Demagogues on Capitol Hill

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Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe nails Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) for the latter's attacks on oil companies: What would you call a return of $850,000 on an investment of just $20? A windfall? A rip-off? If such a killing ...
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Kelo v. New London: Scandalous Updates

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Based on my casual conversations with folks who are familar with Kelo v. New London (the case in which the Supreme Court claimed governments can take private property from one private entity and give it to another), few folks who ...
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White-Hating Segregationists Master Photoshop and a Few Big Words — Will Other Skills Follow?

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The white-hating segregationists are at it again. Last week, one of their number put Maryland's black Lt. Governor Michael Steele in blackface, crudely attempting to claim that since Steele is conservative he's not truly black but a white man in ...
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Just Barely Inside the Beltway: New Tool Avoiding Traffic Congestion

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Just Barely Inside the Beltway reports on a new possibility: Cell phones could be used to monitor traffic congestion, building a picture that could be used to help drivers avoid congested roads ...
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