Author: Amy Ridenour

The New Guy Has a Point

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Excellent floor speech on the overspending crisis by Senator Marco Rubio. Includes a couple of off-the-point questions from Senator John Kerry. Worth watching ...
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Does Mayor Bloomberg Stand to Profit from Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Campaign?

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I ran into this anti-coal advertisement by Michael Bloomberg when visiting a Tina Korbe post on HotAir.com: Michael Bloomberg did not become a billionaire and a successful politician without knowing a few tricks. As the National Center for Public Policy ...
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Video: Project 21’s Deneen Borelli Talks Jobs on Fox

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Project 21's full-time fellow, Deneen Borelli, appeared on the Fox News Channel twice over the last few days. In the first appearance, shown in the video below, broadcast Friday, August 19, Deneen joins host Megyn Kelly, the Fox Business Network's ...
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Should the Food Stamp Program Be Expanded?

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Project 21's full-time fellow Deneen Borelli and economist and talk show host Mark Levine debate the merits of expanding the food stamp program on Fox & Friends August 18: ...
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Why is Obama’s EPA Forcing Power Plants to Close When Unemployment is So High?

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National Center Senior Fellow and Free Enterprise Project Director Tom Borelli, Ph.D, explains how new EPA coal regulations inevitably will hurt job creation, shrink our electricity supply and raise energy prices on the August 14, 2011 edition of Fox's "America's ...
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Tom Borelli to Discuss EPA Scandal on FNC Sunday at 11:40 AM EDT

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National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Tom Borelli, Ph.D., who directs our Free Enterprise Project, will be a guest on the Fox News Channel Sunday morning at 11:40 AM EDT. Tom will discuss evidence that the Environmental Protection ...
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One Minute Video: Unemployment Viewed Another Way

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If you weren't already worried about unemployment -- though how callous you'd have to be not to be, I can't imagine -- watching this video would do it for you ...
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Deadbeat Britons Riot Seeking More Social Services, Thereby Forcing Cancellation of Some Social Services

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One of the things the rioters in Britain ostensibly want is more social services, paid for by their betters.* Today the taxpayer-financed National Health Service, which provides "free" health care to Britons without regard to whether they've ever worked a ...
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The Sad Truth About Media Coverage, and a Modest Plan for Reform

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The sad truth about media coverage is not just the bias, but the focus. The country has just had its credit rating downgraded for the first time ever. The cable networks are all over it. So do you suppose the ...
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The Government War on Lemonade Stands, Mapped (Plus One)

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The Freedom Center of Missouri has created a map showing the location of government-mandated closures of lemonade stands since 1990 (hat tip: Carpe Diem). The map is excellent, but is missing a 2003 Minnesota incident in which 7-year-old Mikaela Ziegler's ...
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