Author: Amy Ridenour

No Caviar in Our Teeth

A good post today on the Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness blog about proposals by Charles Krauthammer and Gregg Easterbrook in favor of raising gasoline taxes. I agree with all of it ...
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Right in the Middle of the Karbala Fighting

I received a quick e-mail from Joe Roche Sunday evening. He could not write a long note, but he did give a clue as to his recent activities, saying "my battalion was right in the middle of the Karbala fighting." ...
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Kissy-Face Detente Aside, Ivan, We Enjoy Beating You

National Center Executive Director David Almasi is a fan of the article "Wimpy U.S. Olympic Committee Tells Athens-Bound Athletes: Curb Your Enthusiasm" by James Lileks. A few quotes follow, but we recommend the whole thing: The United States Olympic Committee ...
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In the Interest of National Morale, I Will Not Be Participating in This Event

I got this amusing e-mail from a complete stranger today, and decided it was funny enough to share, although it is tremendously un-PC. We all know that it is a sin for an Islamic male to see any woman other ...
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They Might as Well Ask Infants to Do Calculus

This has to be one of the most (unintentionally) humorous proposals that I have ever seen. Any environmentalist who believes a parent can tell (a minute or so in advance, yet) when an infant is going to urinate is giving ...
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Just Do The Right Thing

Some interesting poll data from the Sunday Washington Post. An excerpt: More than a third of Americans say they don't trust President Bush 'at all' as a source of information about the environment, according to a new survey of attitudes ...
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Why Don’t Mafia Dons Run Blogs?

The news media was all over the allegation that someone in the White House made public the fact that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's wife is affiliated with the CIA. But does the news media cooperate in the investigation ...
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Enviro Guru Says: Adopt Nuclear Power or Suffer Gaian Dystopia

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I'm getting a kick out of May 24 articles in the British newspaper the Independent. It seems that the prominent Greenie James Lovelock has called upon his fellow members of the environmental left to abandon their opposition to nuclear power ...
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J’accuse, They Said, Ironically

The British left-wing newspaper the Guardian apparently thinks Americans give a damn about the opinion of effete Old Europe filmgoers. A story titled "J'accuse" to this effect carries an astonishing sub-headline asserting that an Cannes film festival award to Michael ...
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Black Activists to Expose Environmental Policies that Harm Minority Advancement

Project 21 will participate in an Earth Day press conference at the National Press Club today on the topic of environmental policies that harm minority advancement ...
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