Author: Amy Ridenour

Bush’s Wolves v. Reagan’s Bear in the Woods

The Daily Recycler says the new Bush-Cheney ad featuring wolves is better than the 1984 Reagan-Bush "bear in the woods" ad. I respectfully disagree. Bush-Cheney's "wolves" is a nice ad, but it is less ambitious than "bear in the woods" ...
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US — and Russia — Out of UN

Little Red Blog tells the appalling story of how hard it was for the United Nations to rouse itself even to condemn the cold-blooded murder of innocent little children in Beslan. I long ago called for the United States to ...
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Bill O’Reilly a Conservative?

Right Journal makes a good point about Fox's Bill O'Reilly. I agree. If Bill O'Reilly were a conservative, I wouldn't have had occasion to write this, nor this. As O'Reilly himself makes clear -- often -- on his show, he ...
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Walter Olson on Robert Kennedy Jr.

This review of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new book by the invaluable Walter Olson is very nearly a sidesplitter. Sample: "...Kennedy's jackhammer style leaves one yearning for Michael Moore's suavity, Molly Ivins' balance and Paul Krugman's lightness of touch." Hat ...
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Republicans Have Better Sex Lives

I don't have a clue what to make of this ...
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Putin, Bush & Kyoto

Vladimir Putin certainly is an interesting fellow. Recently, for example, in a move widely seen as isolating to President Bush, Putin announced he would send the Kyoto global warming treaty to the Russian Duma for ratification. A Putin-Bush split? Not ...
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Soldier Covered by 286 Blogs Profiled in Stars and Stripes

Since April, by my count, blogs and websites have quoted and/or linked to comments sent to this blog by Army Spc. Joe Roche in Iraq at least 286 times. Now Stars and Stripes has published a profile of Joe in ...
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What Went Wrong in Iraq: A Conservative Perspective

Unless you are a subscriber to National Review, you are likely to find this Redhunter post interesting ...
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Smoking in Restaurants

Peggy at What If? has some thoughts I agree with about government bans on smoking in restaurants ...
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New Junior Blogger

Samantha of Uncle Sam's Cabin and Jeremy of Parableman had a girl. Congratulations! ...
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