Author: Amy Ridenour

President Obama: Subpoenas for Thee But Not for Me

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From CNN.com: The White House counsel refused Friday to comply with a subpoena issued by a House panel regarding the failed solar energy company Solyndra, claiming the initiative "was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct ...
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Obamanomics and the Economics of Repaying Student Loans

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President Obama is barnstorming a randomly-selected portion of the country today to announce he is reducing repayment requirements for people who have taken out student loans. He is doing this in two ways: reducing the amount ex-students have to pay ...
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Do Democrats Want a Vote on the Jobs Bill? It Seems They Can’t Decide

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From Talking Points Memo, an incoherent comment by White House spokesman Jay Carney on the President's jobs bill... Congress can take it up, vote on it... then if there's a desire to take things out, we would accept that although ...
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Child Burned Alive in Effort to Help Rich People Buy Carbon Offsets

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An eight-year-old-child reportedly was burned alive to, in the words of the New York Times article (alternative link here) that exposed this, "protect the environment and help fight global warming." The Times adds: "The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar ...
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New Video Betrays NAACP’s Bizarre Logic

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Addendum, September 26, 2011: The interview described in the post below no longer appears in the video above. The MRC alerted me this afternoon that it decided to shorten the video post-publishing. I trust, however, that my post contains sufficient ...
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Obama Needs Advisors with a Record of Achievement to Stimulate Growth in Private Sector, Not Failed “Crony Capitalists”

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The National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project has just released a press release criticizing President Obama's decision to highlight "crony capitalist" Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric at the President's jobs speech last night. "Obama's failure to create ...
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National Center Experts to Speak at Wall Street Rally Today

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Two policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research will speak today at a rally on Wall Street opposing a new cap-and-trade threat: a decision by ten northeastern states to auction carbon credits under their own Regional Greenhouse ...
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MSNBC Can’t Tell a Congressman from a Senator

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If Rep. Joe Walsh "won election to the Senate by 291 votes," why is he in the House of Representatives? In the video from which this is taken, Rep. Walsh does a great job eviscerating MSNBC's Martin Bashir's moronic and ...
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Now He’s Done It… NASA’s Hansen Violates Code of Conduct

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Earlier this week, Hansen was arrested along with Daryl Hannah (note to Daryl: The ditsy blond thing doesn't work when you're over 50), for acts of civil disobedience outside the White House. Hansen and a few hundred others were trying ...
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Andre Carson Should Be Censured

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U.S. Representative Andre Carson (D-IN) accused fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives of wanting not only to restore Jim Crow but also of wanting to see him lynched. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love ...
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