Author: Amy Ridenour

Who Says Congressional Trips Are Just Vacations?

An observation from our executive director, David Almasi: Who said congressional delegations are just vacations? It seems one CODEL really made a big difference, for now. In a surprising policy reversal, Congressman Sheila Jackson-Lee, a hardened Bush critic, decided American ...
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Medicare: It Needs Reform for More Reasons Than Most People Realize

Ed Haislmaier writes in this new National Policy Analysis #498 paper, Medicare: It's About the Future, Stupid! that Medicare's current structure has a lot more problems than just the one we keep hearing about (the little matter of what in ...
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And Then There Was One

More on the story of Congressman Jim Moran from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: And then there was one. Yet another of Congressman Jim Moran's announced primary opponents has dropped out of the race. Former Fairfax County Board Chairman ...
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“We’re Only Filibustering Four”

Another observation from NCPPR executive director David Almasi: The liberal obstructionists in the Senate recently changed their battle cry from one of a crusade to stop the ‘right wing’ from packing the courts to a defensive "we're only filibustering four." ...
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The Government Can’t Even Put Out a Fire

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There's a good bit of idiocy in this piece, which tries to tie forest fires to global warming. Environmentalists have a lot of gall. They oppose forest thinning and sensible management programs to reduce the chance of monster forest fires ...
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Washington Post: WTO Upholds Ruling on U.S. Tariff

This WTO ruling against Bush's steel tariffs is said by the Washington Post to be bad for Bush politically, but it may not be. It may well remind voters in steel producing states that Bush tried to support them -- ...
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The New Gender Gap

A new Gallup poll (paid subscription required) is showing not only that more Americans now say they are conservative or moderate than liberal, but more say they are conservative than either moderate or liberal. According to the Oct/Nov 2003 poll, ...
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More Blacks are Conservative than Liberal: Who’s the “Race Traitor” Now?

More on that new Gallup poll... In it, more blacks (30 percent) say they are conservative than say they are liberal (22 percent). 47 percent say they are moderate. (Yet, liberal U.S. Senators are planning to filibuster a qualified black ...
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Say It Ain’t So, Al

Al Sharpton apparently doesn't have the courage of his convictions ...
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On License Plates, is the ACLU Hypocritical?

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have sued the state of Tennessee, saying the state's "Choose Life" Specialty license plate "discriminates against those citizens with opposing viewpoints." There is no record I can find of the ACLU suing the District of ...
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