Author: Amy Ridenour

When the Public’s Right to Know Conflicts with the News Media’s Self-Interest

According to Reuters, President Bush has "sought a lawyer" to possibly represent him during an ongoing government probe to find out who told major new organizations that Valerie Plame served with the CIA. A lot of fuss is being made ...
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Ambassador to Security Council: You are Irrelevant

No, Bush's hasn't decided -- as far as I know -- to withdraw from the anachronistic U.N. (more's the pity), but the U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. made it plain on Wednesday that defining the relationships between the new ...
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Bush Fears the Pope?

Boy, this article is stupid. It claims President Bush's "knees may knock" when Bush meets with the Pope, since the Pope didn't agree with the Iraq war. How silly. Bush is made of sterner stuff than that. Plus, if the ...
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Only WE Can Prevent Forest Fires

Writing in the Washington Times June 1, Professor Tom Bonnicksen explains how we can do as Smokey Bear advised: We have only two basic choices for dealing with our wildfire crisis. First, we can acknowledge we need, live in and ...
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Government Wastes Our Money; Government Wastes Our Time

Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters has a post today about the state of Minnesota fining gas station operators for not charging enough for gasoline. I'm sure the citizens of Minnesota are very grateful to their government for protecting them from ...
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Affleck Versus Greenspan

This Employment Policy Institute essay by Craig Garthwaite on minimum wage increases struck me as hilarious. Or maybe it is not the essay itself -- worth a read in any case for those interested in the impact of mandatiory minimum ...
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Worth Noting

This point made was made on Right Wing News: In Afghanistan, we were told going in that the war would be long, difficult, and perhaps even unwinnable... our defeatist press was crying 'quagmire' & 'Vietnam' as we bombed our enemies ...
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Magic Needs to Conjure Some Sponsors

NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi reminds us that a black face is less valuable than green dollars when it comes to integrating auto racing: Former basketball star turned businessman/investor Magic Johnson is the newest black face in auto racing ...
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Smiting August

James Lileks' Friday, May 28 Bleat is a must-read. After rescuing Gnat from an evil shopping cart, in rapid-fire order he takes on Human Rights Watch, China, France, Germany, Russia, reveals director Roland Emmerich's Inner Michael Moore and caps it ...
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June 6, Perhaps

Late Friday evening I finally got around to glancing through the Washington Post, which we (predictably) get by home delivery. I almost skipped a Special Section of the May 28 edition published to commemorate this weekend's dedication of the new ...
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