Author: Amy Ridenour

The Benefit of Brown: Providing Opportunity

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The black conservative group Project 21 has issued some publications and statements marking the event. Some excerpts: "The Supreme Court only opened the door to the ...
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The Blog Item’s Headline Says It All

Check out this item, "I'm Not Holding My Breath That This Will Be Broadcast on CNN Over and Over," from the heartwarming CPT Patti blog. It provides another view of how the U.S. Army treats detainees ...
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What Will Be Shown?

Blogger Roger Simon is reporting that Alhurra, the American Arabic-language television netowrk broadcasting in the Middle East, has acquired tapes and photographs of prison atrocities that occurred under Saddam's regime ...
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The Green, Green Privately-Owned Grass of Home

The National Center's executive director David W. Almasi on lawn care: Want a quick example of how private property rights are the best way to protect the environment? Look out at your front yard. I just returned from a 10-day ...
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Worth Noting

"...there are only two people in the world who can keep our soldiers and Marines from winning: you and me." -Jack Kelly in April 11, 2004 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, citing the Tacitus blog ...
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Perverse Incentives; Adverse Results

We've just posted on the main website a piece by Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, who explains to the uninitiated why so many people are frustrated with the Endangered Species Act. The essay has been reprinted in the Miami Herald and ...
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GIs Gone Wild? Not So Fast

A comment from The National Center's executive director, David W. Almasi: First, it was the coffin controversy. Several big-name newspapers published photos of coffins they thought were coming back from Iraq. Instead, they'd been given archive photos of the remains ...
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It Sure Worked for Me

Anyone who wants to feel better about what we are doing in Iraq should visit the Iraq the Model blog, run by three Iraqi brothers. Try this post in which the Iraqi blogger talks with an Iraqi doctor who worked ...
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Not On Your Life

Today's MoveOn.org Daily Mislead once again betrays MoveOn.org's desperate desire to attack President Bush, even at the expense of both the truth and common sense. The publication today condemns Bush for "refusing to condemn[the Bush administration's] right-wing allies who are ...
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Predictions: Wrong

Says David Almasi: In the new film "The Day After Tomorrow," our "disrespect" for Mother Earth threatens mankind with extinction unless a brave climatologist can convince us to mend our global warming ways. The science behind the movie is dubious ...
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