Author: Amy Ridenour

Overlawyered Finds Another Doozy

Overlawyered's Walter Olson has found another doozy for his frivolous lawsuit files: Leona Helmsley is suing Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx for $150 million because the "view" from the family mausoleum has changed -- for the worse, she says. I ...
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NAACP: Living Off Its Past

I recommend an essay by Ward Connerly on the NAACP on National Review Online Monday. A brief excerpt: Historically, the NAACP has represented black people who were confronted with the worst kind of racial oppression imaginable: prohibited from eating at ...
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Mamamontezz’s Open Letter to the Troops

Mamamontezz's Mental Rumpus Room blog has posted the following call to action after reading Joe Roche's post about the impact of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 on our troops: A Call to Action: It is up to each of us to ...
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Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy

National Policy Analysis #516 /
The attorneys general of eight states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin -- have filed a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest electricity producers. The attorneys general claim their intent is to ...
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Russia Better Off Without Kyoto

National Policy Analysis #517 /
It is difficult to imagine that someone who maneuvered to the top of the KGB would fail to recognize his own self-interest. That's why it's hard to credit recent reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed his mind and ...
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Stem Cell Research: Legal, But You Wouldn’t Know It

The Notes & Musings blog has a post about stem cell research that provides an excellent quick summary of one side of the debate in less than 250 words. If you don't understand where Bush is coming from on this ...
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Mooreumetaries

A note from Ed Haislmaier: In his e-mail post "Fahrenheit 9/11 and Its Impact on Military Morale, by a Soldier," Joe Roche asks rhetorically: I wonder how damaging and shocking a Moore project would have been in the 1940s making ...
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Ron Reagan’s Cognitive Dissonance

Ronald Prescott Reagan has this to say in the current Esquire magazine about the sentiment within the crowds that honored former President Reagan during recent memorial events: "Misty-eyed with nostalgia, people set aside old political gripes for a few days ...
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Michael Moore and Military Morale: Soldier’s Essay Strikes a Chord

The last few days I have been doing a lot more blog reading than blog writing, particularly those blogs (69 by informal count) who have reprinted or commented upon Joe Roche's e-mail blog post about the impact of Michael Moore's ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 and Its Impact on Military Morale, by a Soldier

ConservativeBlog.org /
Army Spc. Joe Roche has perhaps the harshest words yet for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, describing its impact on the morale of our troops deployed overseas as "devastating." In typical Joe fashion, he did something about the matter. He made ...
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