Author: Amy Ridenour

James Watt’s Critics Find It Hard to Apologize

Power Line and Daily Standard readers will be familiar with John Hinderaker's work exposing the false accusation that President Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, once told Congress in formal testimony "that protecting natural resources was unimportant in ...
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Associated Press Watch: Channeling Jan Egeland

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Pretty much every loyal American, from the White House on down, scoffed at U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland when he said the U.S. was cheap. I've been critical of AP writer Charles P. Hanley for following the Sierra ...
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Person of the Year 2005 Prediction

Congratulations to the bloggers who held CNN's chief news executive to the same standard to which the news media often holds others. Michelle Malkin has the run-down on who did what. Prediction: Time magazine's Man/Person/Thing/Planet of the Year in 2005 ...
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Power Line: Remembering Mr. Lincoln

Power Line honors Abraham Lincoln on this anniversary of Lincoln's birth ...
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Grassroots Government: Internet Fixes for Government Accountability Problems

I posted Tuesday about Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation's suggestion that Congress should post the complete text of legislation on the Internet before it votes. Mark Tapscott of Tapcott's Copy Desk has taken that idea for a "grassroots government' ...
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Mailbag: No Rebuttal on AP’s Bias

Among the mail received regarding my criticism of the AP's environmental reporting was this: Who provides funding for your operation. It wouldn't be from large corporations would it? Ones involved in the fossil fuel industry? Gee , I wonder if ...
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Mailbag: Smart Growth’s “Agenda of Exclusion”

Among the mail to our post about Ryan Balis's letter on "smart growth" in the Washington Post: I enjoyed Ryan Balis' letter in the Washington Post yesterday and I agree completely with him.Many of the policy makers in local government ...
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Not the Wedding of the Century

Ed Haislmaier has some thoughts about the civil wedding bells that soon will be ringing in Britain: Hearing the news that Prince Charles has publicly announced his intention to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, I immediately remembered that the best take I'd ...
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Gasping for Breath

These folks are encouraging individuals to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. Are signers expected to reduce their personal carbon dioxide emissions by at least five percent under 1990 levels? If so -- word to the wise, whatever else you do -- ...
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The AP’s Biased Global Warming Coverage (or, Dan Rather, Call Your Office)

The Associated Press seems determined to spin global warming, even at the cost of its own reputation. Elsewhere on this website, I have analyzed several recent AP wire stories on global warming, all of which are breathtakingly biased in favor ...
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