Author: Amy Ridenour

Family-Friendly Far from Fair? Part II

Ally at the Who Moved My Truth? blog has a friendly disagreement with some of what I posted here about family-friendly policies in public accommodations and workplaces. So, in the same friendly spirit, I'll go into a little more depth ...
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Gas Prices Are About More Than Saudi Arabia

Correspondent Edward Kitsch recommends this fine article by former Delaware Governor Pete DuPont of the National Center for Policy Analysis in today's Wall Street Journal putting all the "gasoline prices are rising" news media stories in perspective. An excerpt: ...in ...
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Washington Post Covers South Korean’s Beheading With Four Paragraphs on Abu Ghraib Included

The Washington Post apparently found itself unable to run its page one story on the beheading murder of South Korean Kim Sun Il by terrorists in Iraq without spending four paragraphs of the story on the prisoner abuse that took ...
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Family-Friendly Far From Fair?

Ally at the Who Moved My Truth Blog asks the following question: "...Where are the perks when you decide not to have children? Why do we pay the same price at the gym when I don't use their childcare and ...
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Recommendation

If you have time, check out the Captain's Quarter's blog today. He has several very interesting stories. I particularly refer to one called "The Failure of European Socialism," and another "Safire: 9/11 Commission 'Manipulated" By Runaway Staff," but there are ...
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Speaking of Saudi Arabia…

Jack Rich has quite a firey editorial on his life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness blog. A sample: Colin, dear Colin, don't let your flacks lie to us. And let's put an end to this dog shit relationship with ...
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Common Sense Environmentalism

Joe Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, has a very interesting transcript on his website. It is from a speech he gave about environmentalism to the Libertarian Party Convention. Among other things, Joe addresses the current state of the environment, ...
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Kerrey 9/11 Commission Snub Pays Off — But Not for Him

Executive director David Almasi notes an interesting chain of events thus far lost to the major media: After much public wailing, the 9/11 commission finally got a meeting with President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney on April ...
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I Don’t Remember Voting for Kofi Annan

The U.N.'s Kofi Annan is making another effort to claim the authority to try U.S. soldiers in the International Criminal Court. ...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...
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Media Above the Law?

Glenn Reynolds has interesting insights on a trend I have noted in this blog, namely, the tendency of some journalists to believe the law does not apply to them. Some of my earlier thoughts on the matter can be found ...
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