Author: Amy Ridenour

Beware of Judges Bearing Rights

Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts, has a worthy op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal. One of several excellent points: Beware of activist judges. The Legislature is our lawmaking body, and it is the Legislature's job to pass laws. As governor, ...
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The Massachusetts Supreme Court Makes Its Decision; St. Peter’s Is Pending

The Massachusetts Supreme Court announces that traditional religious values regarding marriage are a "stain." Also, they are "no[t] rational." ...
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Clear Skies, Clear Bias

By way of AndrewSullivan's blog, I ran across Gregg Easterbrook's analysis of a National Research Center (National Academies of Science) report on President Bush's Clear Skies proposal, and the apparently biased manner in which the Washington Post and NY Times ...
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An E-Mail Exchange with the NFL

I've watched some commentators -- Alan Colmes at Fox is among them -- question why anyone should care about a little nudity at the Super Bowl. Other commentators have rebutted them, so I won't say everything I could, except this: ...
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Conflict of Interest, Anyone?

Greg Pierce of the The Washington Times reports that fundraisers for New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer (who wants to be a governor) are soliciting checks from lawyers whose clients are negotiating deals with Spitzer's office ...
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Three Cheers for Michael Powell

Three cheers for Michael Powell. An FCC press release today: FCC CHAIRMAN POWELL CALLS SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW A "CLASSLESS, CRASS, DEPLORABLE STUNT." OPENS INVESTIGATION FCC Chairman Michael Powell today issued the following statement: "I am outraged at what I ...
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Don’t Want No MTV

On his blog today, Project 21 member Michael King points out some MTV hypocrisy: "While MTV is busy apologizing for the Janet Jackson 'exposure' during the Super Bowl halftime show, at the same time, on another portion of their web ...
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If You Think the NFL is Bad, Wait for the Grammys

A warning to the FCC from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: Next week is the Grammy Awards. It will be broadcast live on CBS, the same network that brought us last night's Super Bowl halftime show featuring Janet Jackson's ...
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I Liked it Better as a Game

A wry remark from hubby David about last night's football-themed bacchanalia: It used to be that sex was device to sell more beer. Now beer (and beer commercials) are a device to sell more sex ...
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Are We Liberal?

It's not just leftists who send less-than-friendly e-mails. Here's one from a fellow, I presume a conservative, who thinks our latest edition of What Conservatives Think is distressingly liberal (punctuation as we received it): You say that your publication is ...
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