Author: Amy Ridenour

Extreme Weather & Global Warming

Iain Murray has a good post on extreme weather events and global warming on The Commons Blog. Quoting Spiked's Brendan O'Neill, the post says, in part: Dr Mark Saunders, a weather expert at University College London (UCL), says we need ...
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Elliot Spitzer: Your Personal Shopper

TigerHawk has a good question about New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and his new taxpayer-funded plan to help New Yorkers shop: If I were a New York politician other than Eliot Spitzer or a taxpayer in that state (actually, ...
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Chris Matthews Theory

Husband David has a theory about Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. He thinks their over-the-top obnoxiousness (see Michelle Malkin's August 20 blog entry and other commentaries all over the blogosphere) is a attention-getting ratings ploy. No one, he figures, is ...
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Saudi Incompetence

Regarding this post about Saudi Arabia's PR campaign, Lionel Waxman writes to say: Is it possible the Saudis don't know any better? How many Americans do you think know better? He may have a point. They may not know better ...
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Media Censors Poll

Davids Medienkritik opines about FoxNews.com silently deleting an online presidential poll showing John Kerry way ahead ...
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Coalition of the Willing Dominating the Olympic Games

From husband David: The Coalition of the Willing countries are dominating the Olympic games. As of August 17, Coalition nations had amassed 90 medals, compared to only 67 for all other nations (over 40% from communist regimes). Nineteen of the ...
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US Basketball Team Stuns US Basketball Team

More musings from husband David: What's next? The United States Olympic beach volleyball team will lose in an upset to the District of Columbia's beach volley ball team? Over the weekend, the US basketball team was reportedly defeated by Puerto ...
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MoveOn.org Swift Boat Ad Moves On News Pages

I haven't actually counted the news articles, but it looks to me as though MoveOn.org's new ad about the swift boat veterans ad is getting more establishment media coverage than the swift boat veterans got when they unveiled their ad ...
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Frustrating Hurricane Reporting

This Reuters story doesn't make sense to me. Referring to Florida residents hardest-hit by Hurricane Charley, on the one hand, Reuters reports: Immediate needs such as water, food and shelter appeared to have been quickly met. Some 4,000 National Guard ...
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Heartwarming

Best Olympic Picture. Maybe best picture of the year. Hat tip: Franco Aleman via Vodkapundit ...
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