Author: Amy Ridenour

New Leadership Institute Study of PAC Giving Patterns Released

The Leadership Institute has just completed a study of the giving patterns of business and association PACs for the 2001-02 election cycle. It's worth reading. Among the very many tidbits contained within it: Union PACs gave over 90 percent of ...
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PETA Terrorizes Little Kids

This sounds like domestic terrorism to me ...
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Questions for Old Europe

Ed Haislmaier recommends an article in the German press defending Bush’s decision to limit bids on Iraq contracts to allies. The piece begins: Reconstruction in Iraq has begun in earnest, but many European firms are being left out. The United ...
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French People, Like Iraqis, Don’t Deserve Civil Rights

Jacques Chirac really, really hates manifestations of morality. He's now pushing for a law in France barring the wearing of headscarves by Muslims, yarmulkes by Jews and crosses by Christians in public schools. Chirac believes France is a secular state ...
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Putin Wins in Russia But Will Liberty?

A good piece and wise advice, in my opinion, about how the Bush Administration should react to the results of the recent parliamentary elections in Russia. The piece, by the Heritage Foundation's Ariel Cohen, concludes: "Russia now has a Duma ...
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Money Quote

Our Ed Haislmaier contributes this link and comment: The AP Wire has the following (as Andrew Sullivan would call it), "money quote: "In Tikrit, about 700 people rallied in the center of town Monday chanting 'Saddam is in our hearts, ...
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A Scrooge for Our Time

From our executive director, David Almasi: I am one of the biggest supporters of private property rights out there, but let's call a Scrooge a Scrooge. The Hall family owns a piece of property on Main Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts ...
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An Idiot Hiding in a Hole

From Time.com, this tidbit from the interrogation of Saddam Hussein: "When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, 'If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom ...
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Telegraph: Terrorist Behind September 11 Trained by Saddam

Thanks to James Taranto's Best of the Web for pointing out this fascinating story. It begins: "Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, ...
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Thoughts About Racismitis

Words from Project 21 member Darryn “Dutch” Martin: Cincinnati is afflicted with another case of police brutality/racismitis. This time, events were caught on tape (please see Project 21 member Jerry Brooks' analysis of the racial ramifications). I may sound cold-hearted, ...
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