Author: Amy Ridenour

David Almasi: I Am a Pet Owner

NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi asserts his dominance: My wife and I adopted a dog a few months ago and now have Madison (a corgi/sheltie mix) enrolled in obedience training at a local pet store. After Maddie performed exceptionally ...
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Bloggers: Increase Your Blog Traffic

Blogger Alert: Norman at Expresso Sarcasm has found a sure-fire way to increase blog traffic. What's more, it's free ...
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Federal Payola: Journalists Aren’t Special

If you don't think columnists should receive federal grant money, read this or one of the other studies and papers about the conservative/GOP "Truth in Testimony" proposal that was informally associated with the 1994 "Republican Revolution," and was considered a ...
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Fisking the DNC Blog

What balderdash -- the Democratic National Committee is claiming on its blog that a Bush Administration proposal to pay and promote federal employees based on their work performance rather than seniority amounts to "eliminating their right to negotiate the terms ...
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Pelosi Claims GOP Wants Race-Based Social Security System

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has this sentence in a recent press release: "Republicans... have proposed providing African American and Hispanic workers with different [Social Security] benefits than white workers." So there can be no doubt that I have quited ...
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Conscientious Objector in Harry Reid’s Ranks?

From David Almasi: It turns out one of the protestors arrested for disrupting President Bush's inaugural address was a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. It's interesting the lack of attention this incident seems to be receiving considering that ...
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Let the Dems Speak

The American Conservative Union's Dr. Don Devine is supporting the Administration's new proposals to promote federal employees at the Department of Homeland Security based on their performance rather than their seniority. Don ran the federal personnel system during the Reagan ...
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Repudiating Ann Coulter

Very many conservatives have spent years explaining to their fellow Americans and to people overseas that the United States is not aggressive toward other nations, that our military policy is based on national security and that we genuinely wish other ...
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Blogburst: Holocaust Testimonies

I'm participating in the January 27 Blogburst on the theme "Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz." Polls, such as this one about Canadians and this one about Britons (I could not find a recent one about Americans, ...
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The Diplomad: U.N. Dishonesty

The Diplomad fisks a U.N. press conference on the U.N.'s contributions to tsunami relief refforts. Says the Diplomad: "The dishonesty is breathtaking." ...
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