Author: Amy Ridenour

Iraq: More than WMD

Enviropundit reviews the joint resolution to authorize the use of United States armed forces against Iraq with an eye to determining, with 20-20 hindsight, if the justifications hold up ...
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Michael Kinsley: We Hold This Dirt to Be Self-Evident

Michael Kinsley thinks the Bush campaign is so artful it could even turn signing the Declaration of independence into a political minus: President Bush: "My opponent, you see, wrote -- or he helped to write -- this document, this so-called ...
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Why We Fight

Courtest of Bill's Comments, I just visited Allah Ain't In The House. Grim, but (as Bill noted), a necessary function ...
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Debate Parody

David Brooks has a rather funny parody of the debates in his New York Times column today ...
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Bill O’Reilly’s Sexual Harrassment Case

Beldar, a trial lawyer, has an interesting post up today about sexual harassment litigation generally and O'Reilly v. Makris (and Makris v. O'Reilly) specifically. See also an earlier Beldar post on the strategies being employed by the litigants in this ...
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Gin Raisins for Arthritis

Speaking of parodies, check out Dr. Galen's amusing (and, I suspect, accurate) "test of the efficacy of gin soaked raisins in treatment of mild to moderate osteoarthritis." ...
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Voter Intimidation

Various talk radio hosts have spent a lot of time today talking about claims by some interest groups that the 2004 election will be stolen by one side or another. Project 21 was on this story a month ago ...
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Women and Equal Pay

During last night's debate, it was alleged that women in the U.S. are not receiving equal pay for equal work. This helps set the record straight: The left-wing has complained about so-called 'pay equity' for years. As the U.S. Senate's ...
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Paying for Social Security Partial Privatization

During last night's debate, President Bush was asked how the federal government would find the funds to pay current retirees' Social Security benefits if younger workers were to be permitted to privately invest some of the funds they presently pay ...
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American Digest and the Bleat

American Digest says readers of James Lileks's The Bleat don't sufficiently appreciate the fullness of that website ...
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