Author: Amy Ridenour

When They Call Themselves Greens, They’re Apparently Referring to Their Love of Money

Environmentalists are making plans to sue energy companies over perceived global warming. My thoughts: * "Global warming," in colloquial usage, refers a theory predicting certain things about the future. The future has not occurred. Imagine the court testimony: "Your Honor, ...
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Wal-Mart: A Target Because It’s Successful

National Policy Analysis #499 /
In America, the word "success" seems to be inscribed indelibly on the national consciousness - the consciousness, that is, of everyone except a typical federal bureaucrat. It happened in the Clinton Administration in the late 1990s, midway through the high-tech ...
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Equal Protection Under the Law: Is Andrew Sullivan Right About Gay Marriage?

National Policy Analysis #504 /
Andrew Sullivan, likely the nation's most prolific defender of gay marriage, offered this opinion on February 17: "...under almost any rational understanding of equal protection, civil marriage has to be extended to gay couples." Sullivan relies on an unprovable and ...
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Additional funding for the National Endowment for the Arts?

National Center Executive Director David Almasi has this warning for President Bush regarding the President's proposal to expand the budget of the National Endowment of the Arts. I figure you probably want to bolster your reputation as a "compassionate conservative," ...
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Castro: ‘I Will Die Fighting’ if U.S. Invades Cuba

Castro: 'I Will Die Fighting' if U.S. Invades Cuba, reads a Washington Post headline today. Good argument for invasion ...
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Cannibal Murders Aren’t Evil, German Court Rules

A German court has ruled that a cannibal murderer only gets an eight year sentence because he had no "base motives" in the murder and isn't evil. By killing and eating the guy, you see, he was just (as the ...
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Maybe the Sun Warms the Earth

Another valuable essay, Earth's Temperature History: Putting the 20th Century in Proper Perspective, from the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Its concluding paragraph: The compatibility of these findings with those of several studies that have ...
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Call Me a Bigot

In his blog today, under the title "Confronting Bigots," Andrew Sullivan applauds this paragraph from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The very idea that gay people are trying to tear down marriage is nonsense; heterosexual people are doing quite fine on their ...
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If You Say You’re Lying, Should I Believe You?

I don't get this trend on the left to give their publications names, such as Big Lies and Daily Mislead, that undermine the likelihood that we'll believe anything they say ...
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Hypocritical Al

Fun quotes in a new piece by Steve Hayward of the Pacific Research Institute about Al Gore's speech on global warming. An excerpt: ...in 1998 the National Environmental Trust blasted the Clinton administration for its "intransigence," for "abandoning the core ...
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