Author: Amy Ridenour

Visit from the Real World

I get a lot of e-mail, much of it hostile (some of that, amusingly so) and a lot of it uncreative (I received some very thoughtful pieces disagreeing with me on outsourcing, and about as many thoughtful pieces agreeing, but ...
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What Did the Protesters at Rove’s House Want, Anyway?

Since folks do seem to be willing to send me e-mail, I wonder if someone out there can fill me in on something. Specificially, is this Washington Post story so biased it is incomprehensible (from a policy standpoint), or am ...
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Since the Washington Post Wouldn’t Tell Me, I Did My Own Digging

Doing some of my own research (see blog entry immediately below), I found this description of the "Dream Act" (S. 1545) on the website of the the National Immigration Law Center. The legislation reportedly is sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch ...
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Clinton’s EPA Chief Springs the Mercury Trap She Left for Bush

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: MoveOn.org, the Environmental Working Group Action Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council have announced what MoveOn.org terms a "hard hitting TV ad campaign" against "the President's proposed ten-year mercury cleanup delay."1 Carol Browner, who ran the EPA during ...
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White Men Are Americans, Too

Earlier in February, I really appreciated an item in the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog about an apparent double standard for scandals: a leftist can say or do things a rightist can't. I meant to link to it but ...
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Spin from the Spin Critics

Spinsanity has an announcement this evening: "We are proud to announce the upcoming release of our first book, All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth, which will be published in August by Touchstone/Fireside, an imprint ...
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Do As I Say, Not As I Do

NCPPR executive director David Almasi points out the selective secrecy of the liberals: What exactly is the liberal policy on secrecy and propriety? From their actions, it appears to be "Do as I say, not as I do." When Clarence ...
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Is Al Gore to Blame for 9/11?

From VP & hubby David Ridenour: Liberals claim that the Iraq war has been a needless distraction from the war on international terrorism. But the real distraction was those 36 days in late 2000 when it wasn't clear who would ...
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Response to Madeleine Albright

From today's Washington Post on the "critical event" that gave America the backbone to fight terrorism: "...the critical event was not simply Sept. 11, 2001, which changed the public's perceptions, but also the 2000 election, which changed the commander in ...
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Press Conference to Address State of Medicare

Conservative and free-market groups will participate in a joint press conference Tuesday on Medicare. The press conference is timed to coincide with the release of the newest Medicare Trustees' Report. Our press release, linked above, explains some of The National ...
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