Author: Amy Ridenour

Mace Might Be Called For

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Why did the Senators have to dim their lights to have a closed session? Did anyone keep a flashlight centered on Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd? ...
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Manny Miranda on Samuel Alito

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Manny Miranda of the Third Branch Conference has this to say about President Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito: The nomination of Samuel A. Alito to service on the Supreme Court is consummately in keeping with President Bush's trust and mandate ...
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Spinning Wheels

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From Britain's Daily Telegraph: A mother spent two hours waiting with her sick baby on a hospital children's ward while the doctor they were due to see was passing in front of them on a unicycle. After Paula Dadswell complained, ...
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Horace Cooper: Rosa Parks, Where Have You Gone?

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Law professor Horace Cooper, a member of The National Center's board of directors (and a founding member of Project 21), has a column on Rosa Parks posted at Townhall.com that I like a lot. An excerpt: But Rosa Parks was ...
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Pathetic Bozo Alert

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I read the papers this morning thinking that there is nothing more pathetic than journalists decrying the culture of leaking that goes on in Washington while playing the leak game themselves with zeal, but then I read this ...
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Tactical Genuises — And Some Who Aren’t

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Quote of the Day: Rome cranked out military worthies faster than the Clintons created scandals. Speaking of Clinton scandals, several Clinton defenders have been on cable TV lately, saying the Libby legal matter is more serious than the Clinton perjury ...
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Krauthammer on Realism, Oppression and Scowcroft

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Charles Krauthammer hits another home run with this zing on Bush 41 National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft: Realists prize stability above all, and there is nothing more stable than a ruthlessly efficient dictatorship. Which is why Scowcroft is the man ...
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Five Best Books on Environment

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Bestselling author Michael Crichton, writing in OpinionJournal.com, recommends five books that "question the conventional wisdom on the environment": "Playing God in Yellowstone" by Alston Chase "The Culture Cult" by Roger Sandall "Man in the Natural World" by Keith Thomas "The ...
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Heritage’s Gardner: U.N.’s Defining Moment?

The Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardner takes a look at the role of the United Nations in the "missing" explosives controversy and speculates: The 2004 Presidential election may be not only a defining moment in American history, but also a defining ...
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Good Thing They Aren’t Teenage Girls

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The story "Right's Victory in Miers Case Backs Bush into a Corner" in the Globe and Mail begins: The Christian right is ecstatic. Their campaign to scuttle the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court succeeded yesterday, demonstrating ...
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