Author: Amy Ridenour

Michael King: Murder Most Foul

Project 21 member and blogger Michael King is on the O'Reilly Factor just now. The topic is a woman in Atlanta being given probation for murdering her infant daughter. Read Michael's blog, Rambling's Journal, for more on the case ...
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Kyoto: At Least We’re Honest

This U.S. government report says Italian environmentalists are protesting because the U.S. has declined to ratify the Kyoto agreement. Meanwhile, this European Union report says Italy ratified Kyoto, but is not complying with it ...
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Pew Center: Kyoto is Merely Symbolic

The February 16 Washington Post has this quote about the Kyoto global warming treaty: "The greatest value is symbolic," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. No doubt that's just what the citizens of the ...
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Beldar Takes Nuclear Option

Beldar pulls no punches whatsoever writing about Senator Harry Reid, "damned lies" and restoring the constitutional integrity of the judicial nomination process. I don't know what percentage of the voting public genuinely understands the Senate's advice and consent role with ...
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David Brock: Conservatives Lie

David Brock is one to talk... 'The conservatives seem to be particularly vulnerable [to having "lies" exposed] because the quality of their research is particularly low. There is typically self-interested money behind it and of course they are simply willing ...
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The Volokh Conspiracy, The First Amendment, and Mafia Dons

I agree with Judge Sentelle's observations (as covered by Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy) about applying a First Amendment privilege not to testify to reporters: Perhaps more to the point today, does the privilege also protect the proprietor of ...
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Kyoto Can Be Fun

EnviroSpin Watch takes some fun whacks at European compliance with the Kyoto Treaty and recommends Tim Blair's hilarious poll: "How will you celebrate ratification of the Kyoto Protocol?" (To find Tim's poll, look on the left side of Tim's blog ...
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Patrick Michaels: Kyoto is Absurd

If arguments about climate change bore you to sleepiness, this is a week to drink a lot of coffee, because the Kyoto global warming treaty goes into affect Wednesday (for industrialized nations other than the USA, Australia, Liechenstein and Monaco) ...
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What Does An Elephant-Headed God Want With Smashed Coconuts, Anyway?

I was filled with warm fuzzies when I read that Baby 81 is getting reunited with his Mommy and Daddy, until I read what Mommy plans to do to celebrate: Jenita Jeyarajah said the first things she'll do when she ...
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Mark Steyn on Steroids

Says Mark Steyn: "When you cede to the state the responsibility for feeding, clothing, housing you, for your parents' retirement and your own health care, it's hardly surprising they can't see what the big deal is about annexing your sex ...
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