Author: Amy Ridenour

Kyoto: Browbeating America… Without Result

Here's an overseas perspective on America's decision not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. Worth reading in its entirety, but here is an excerpt: ...in a democracy such as the U.S., it is not possible to browbeat a president into doing ...
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Power Line: “Deeply Contemptible Conduct”

Dittos to Hindrocket of Power Line's opinion regarding the treatment of Jeff Gannon ...
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The Torch: Justice is Blind

This new blog has some things to say about the death of the terrorist who died from a "Palestinian hanging." ...
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Everything I Know Is Wrong: Kyoto, Summarized

Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong has a top-flight post on global warming. Sample: Let me put it more directly: global warming may or may not be happening -- anyone who tells you that they know for certain, one ...
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Blogpowerment

Notice (thanks to Wizbang for the pointer) that when the former leader of Britain' Conservative party, Iain Duncan Smith, wrote an op-ed about the influence blogs could have on Britain, the first example of blog empowerment ("blogpowerment"?) he thought of ...
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A Honeymoon for American Soldiers Based in Europe

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U.S. Army Specialist Joe Roche, whose observations about his experiences in Iraq earned the honor of being quoted by President Bush and by the Smithsonian Institution, among other distinctions, has sent over some new thoughts: His impressions of Europe, where ...
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Holistic

I received this in an e-mail. Don't know if it is true. According to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and ...
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Washington Post on Kyoto: Three Sentences, None Accurate

From Wednesday's Washington Post: The [Kyoto] treaty is aimed at controlling global warming linked to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. It was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. Although the United States helped shape it, President Bush pulled the ...
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Journalists’ (and Bloggers’?) Shield Laws: What is a “Reporter,” Anyway?

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Balancing this favorable article by Joe Strupp in Editor and Publisher about the "reporter's privilege" to be partially except from subpoenas is this excellent one by Dan Ackman in Forbes. Editor and Publisher piece alerts us to bi-partisan legislation in ...
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Honoring Our Escape

In honor of the U.S. escape from the Kyoto global warming treaty, we posted three new short papers on the topic on our website this evening. Each is based on op-eds I had on the Knight-Ridder newswire over the past ...
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