Author: Amy Ridenour

Marine Corps Marathon Congratulations

Congratulations to my baby brother (okay, he's 34, maybe not a baby anymore), who successfully completed the Marine Corps Marathon Sunday morning. It was his first marathon ever, and he placed 6,222 out of approximately 18,000 runners. We made it ...
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Usher and Budden: Violence Isn’t Art

Project 21's Kimberley Jane Wilson is asking why rappers Usher and Joe Budden insist on advocating violence towards women and unborn children in their song lyrics. Says Kimberley: Some may feel compelled to jump to Usher and Budden's defense by ...
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Poisondagger

This is a new blog, and it looks good. Sample of a screed about the link between Saddam Hussein and terrorism: Those who reject the available evidence seem to think that the absence of a big dossier labeled, "My Support ...
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Regarding Serial Commas

OK, Professor Bainbridge, you've convinced me ...
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Heritage Foundation on Russia Policy: Blunt Talk, Good Ideas

Those who have heeded my pleas that Americans need to pay more attention to Russia will find much of value in this new Heritage Foundation paper by Dr. Ariel Cohen. In this paper, Cohen shares more than one very harsh ...
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Corporations vs. Environmentalists

Looks like the moral high ground is with the corporations this time ...
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Al-Qaqaa Tour

Patrick at Liberating Iraq just spoke by phone with a friend attached to the 101st Airborne's Division Command Staff, which spent two weeks last year using Al-Qaqaa as a temporary headquarters. Patrick's friend describes what the 101st saw -- and ...
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The Paragraph Farmer

This is a well-written new blog. Take, for example, this post in which supermodel Kathy Ireland, who used to be pro-choice, tries to convince Fox's Alan Colmes to be pro-life. I've just added this new blog to my blogroll ...
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Putin, Explained

From Moscow News, an editorial that explains Vladimir Putin and the Russian political situation: A year ago Vladimir Putin proved that he was a bad politician but a good power-wielder and a worthy candidate for dictator, who was capable of ...
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Breeding Nuclear Weapons

In just four succinct paragraphs, the Little Red Blog tells some harsh but necessary truths about Iran, the U.N., America, and the spread of nuclear weapons technology. A sample: The real difficulty on this issue may not be the political ...
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