Author: Amy Ridenour

Staples – Sinclair – Media Matters: Who’s on First?

A very brief update on our coverage of Staples - Sinclair - Media Matters... This article on the Staples affair ends on a funny note: ...As for how the issue will eventually be settled between Staples - which now says ...
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Peter Roff: Torture and Gonzales

Peter Roff of UPI has a standout opinion column out tonight on torture and Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales. It begins: "Your college-age junior comes to you with plans to spend mid-winter break in Florida rather than come home. Against your ...
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France: Hopeless Even When It Means Well

If the official French attitude toward the United States and the American military has frustrated you, you will very much appreciate this post on Bloggledygook. Appreciate, that is, in a sad and perhaps pitiful kind of way. (It would be ...
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Everything I Know Is Wrong in Philadelphia Inquirer

Congratulations to Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong for being cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a resource on global warming. Despite all the snow at the top of his blog, Sean has had some mighty good posts on ...
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Child Free

I know I just linked to Eric Berlin yesterday, so I probably should not do it again so soon, but he has an eye-popping post up about people who seemingly hate children. He's not kidding, either. I visited the website ...
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Malpractice Crisis is Real

This USA Today editorial says: Chris Heffner, a neurosurgeon in southern Illinois, stopped treating head-trauma patients when his annual malpractice insurance premium doubled to $265,000. With only two neurosurgeons in the area, brain-trauma victims now have to be airlifted to ...
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Interesting Concept, But It Will Never Catch On

Why isn't Al Gore's name on this e-mail? Hat tip: Slashdot ...
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Where is Putin Taking Russia?

Mark McDonald of Knight Ridder provides an unhappy assessment: "We're in a downward spiral, and it's a tragedy," said Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who's now a millionaire businessman and an opposition member of the Duma, Russia's lower house ...
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Rethinking No-Fault Divorce

Boots and Sabers makes a good point about this article on rethinking no-fault divorce ...
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Michelle Malkin: Google News Blackout?

Michelle Malkin is wondering if Google News has a biased algorithm, since the CBS story is all over the Internet, yet the CBS report does not appear on Google's list of top U.S. news stories. Here's my guess, and it ...
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