Author: Amy Ridenour

Congress is Returning

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Thought folks might be interested in seeing the following announcement, which was put out within the last hour by a member of the U.S. House Leadership: In the next few minutes, the President will have a conference call with the ...
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Congressional Action: Senator Frist on Katrina

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On September 1, Senate Majority Leader gave the first speech as the Senate reconvened on account of Hurricane Katrina: Mr. President, on behalf of my colleagues and fellow Americans, I come to the Senate floor to extend my heartfelt sympathies ...
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Katrina

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Let's keep everyone in the path of Katrina in our prayers. Addendum: Michelle Malkin has information on private relief efforts, and how to help the victims of the storm and flooding ...
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Endangered Species and Military Bases: A Call for Eco-Sanity

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Peyton Knight, who joined The National Center's staff Monday as our new director of the John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, is making a plea for eco-sanity on our military bases. Our brave men and women ...
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Priorities

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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post found itself able to editorialize about Katrina's devastation without making wholly irrelevant digs at President Bush for being on vacation before Katrina hit Mississippi and Louisiana ...
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Los Angeles Times: Hurricane Flattens Mississippi Coast

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This Los Angeles Times story about Katrina devastation really brings home just how awful the post-Katrina situation is in Mississippi ...
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Cindy Sheehan’s Apologist Allies

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I see in the Washington Post that Cindy Sheehan is using the same PR agency the Nicaraguan Sandinistas used. Perhaps understandably, Fenton Communications doesn't brag about its work promoting Nicaragua's pro-Castro, anti-U.S. communist government. At least, not on its website ...
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Jesse Jackson: First Amendment? What First Amendment?

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In light of Pat Robertson's publicly-expressed view that the U.S. government should "take... out" Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Jesse Jackson says the Federal Communications Commission should ban discussions of assassinating foreign leaders on U.S. "airwaves." Robertson's comments, of course, were ...
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On John Roberts and Martin Luther King: No Apology Necessary

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Says Project 21's Mychal Massie: I neither apologize for nor shrink from my comments comparing the beliefs of Judge John Roberts, James Madison and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To suggest that I have in some way discredited Dr. King ...
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General Electric Thinks Regulation Needed for Innovation?

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As long as I am writing about the National Journal's coverage of global warming, here's a perplexing quote from the chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt (2004 salary: $8.5 million), as reported in the National Journal cover story ...
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