Author: Amy Ridenour

Squaring the Boston Globe: A Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving message was written by Harry Forbes at the Squaring the Boston Globe blog. As I read it, my mind's ear (if there is such a thing) began to hear it in Ronald Reagan's voice. It is that Reaganesque ...
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The White Ann Coulter and Her Clone

I find it interesting that the journalist from the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot who called Michelle Malkin an "Asian Ann Coulter" used those words. Why didn't he just refer to Michelle as "another Ann Coulter"? After all, if Michelle Malkin is an ...
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Arctic Warming — Or Not

Wondering if there is anything to the latest bit of Chicken Little global warming alarmism, to wit, the "news" that the Arctic is melting? Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong tackles it for you ...
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Fighting Words – Oh, Never Mind, It’s Just Not Worth It

As Sean once said about a screed by an American leftist, sometimes these left-wing communiques just fisk themselves: I have sensational news for everybody who thinks that the general European Anti-Bush "movement" is simply created by biased media, and that ...
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Commonwealth Conservative: Worth a Visit

If you are interested in Virginia politics, as we DC-area conservatives tend to be, this blog may interest you. Actually, it may interest you even if you don't care about Virginia politics ...
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Sparse Matrix: Politics is Ugly, Politics is Dirty, Politics is War

David at The Sparse Matrix provides a Cliff's Notes version of the debate between Professor Bainbridge and I over the House GOP rule change. He then concludes we're both wrong. Interesting. I'd love to say he's wrong about politics, but, ...
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I love Jet Noise: Offended on Condoleezza Rice’s Behalf

The I Love Jet Noise blog has a good post about the way Dr. Condoleezza Rice is being treated. Good comments in the comments section, too ...
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Strengthen The Good: Building a Future by Building a Library

Strengthen The Good's newest charity is a book-donation project. Visit here to read the story of a little school in a land that once was communist, where the children are trying to build a library of books so they can ...
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Shocked

A college student writes us to say she is shocked, shocked to find that not every aspect of the policymaking arena is controlled by the federal government: Hi, I'm a college student who recently accessed the Envirotruth website while researching ...
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CBS: No DeLay Indictment

CBS News reports (almost sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn't it?) that all the kerfluffle about the House GOP changing its rules for Tom DeLay was just that: Kerfluffle. Says CBS: The powerful GOP chieftain is unlikely to ...
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