Author: Amy Ridenour

A New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: “I Ask That the American People Be Brave”

I have just received an e-mail from Army Spc. Joe Roche, who was briefly able to take a break from the thick of the fighting against Al-Sadr's forces in Iraq to tell us what he is seeing and experiencing. Because ...
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Teachers’ Union Needs Instruction

From a United Federation Of Teachers union document about Social Security and Medicare comes this line critical of conservative plans to augment the current Social Security system with private retirement accounts: All experts agree that private individual accounts would exacerbate ...
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Rumsfeld Must Stay

David Frum ha good points on the Rumsfeld-should-resign issue in his blog on National Review Online today. I continue to maintain that those who want Rumsfeld out have wanted him out all along; the prison abuse issue simply gave them ...
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We Know the Sierra Club Doesn’t Do Science, But Apparently it Can’t Do Math or History, Either

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web today has a hilarious point to make about a new book written by Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope. Taranto notes that Pope complains that President Bush has (supposedly) ...
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The Commons: Green Magazine Afraid of Dissenting Views

The Commons blog has a piece by Jonathan Adler tonight about E/The Environmental Magazine pulling an ad for the The Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, which is published by the Pacific Research Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. Apparently, these ...
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The Day After Tomorrow

I have a new op-ed out, on the topic of the new global warming disaster movie, and thought I would share an abridged version of it here: Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe ...
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Nicer Mail

From the mailbag: Hi: I saw the link you put up for Joe Roche's group to receive care packages. How can we find out about other folks serving in Iraq who also need care packages? I have a group of ...
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“His Actions Have Been Exactly What They Should Have Been”

An excellent post at Everything I Know Is Wrong on the Rumsfeld-Should-Resign nonsense. Sean has more common sense than the entire New York Times editorial board, and his prose is better, too ...
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Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

Thoughts from husband David: It is not Donald Rumseld who should resign, but Nancy Pelosi. If it is a resignable offense to avoid making public statements that could prejudice an ongoing military investigation, then it must be an offense to ...
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The Commons

There's a new blog in the neighborhood, "The Commons," a group blog of free-market environmentalists that is the brainchild of Iain Murray, blogmaster of the excellent The Edge of England's Sword blog. The Commons, named in honor of the concept ...
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