Author: Amy Ridenour

Important Enough to Obstruct, But Not Important Enough to Vote On

From National Center executive director David W. Almasi: Utah Governor Mike Leavitt was finally confirmed to become the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on October 28. He was confirmed by a vote of 88-8, with four members not ...
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I Know Worrying About Russia is an 80s Thing, But Indulge Me

The Washington Post is saying it better than I can: Washington Post, 10-27-03: “…Khodorkovsky had the additional misfortune of being the last surviving oligarch. For those who have not kept up their Russian, ‘oligarch’ is a term of art for ...
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Why Don’t They Care?

A depressing bit of information from the Heritage Foundation: Most of America's senior citizens aren't bothering to find out what's going on in the Medicare debate. One snippet from the information in the Heritage Foundation WebMemo by Derek Hunter: * ...
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NY Times: Still Smokin’

A New York Times editorial today says you can massively restrict energy production in the United States without killing even one job. Yeah, right. The New York Times staff apparently still is smoking the same stuff Stalin gave Timesman Walter ...
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Up Next: And He Was Allowed to Vote, Although He Is A White Male

An on-air reporter for WMAL Radio, a good station I listen to a lot, had an odd bit of news early this afternoon. Reporting on an incident in Fairfax County, Virginia in which unknown vandals spray-painted cars, apparently at random, ...
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Poll Results on Limbaugh Nearly Unanimous

Speaking of WMAL, here's a report from their website about the reaction fo Rush Limbaugh's fans to news of his drug dependency: By a nearly unanimous margin, Rush Limbaugh's listeners are sticking with the nation's No. 1 talk radio host, ...
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Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Proposal

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BACKGROUND: Management Information Services, Inc., a national economics firm with a client roster representing both business and environmental organizations,1 has released a study showing that passage of S. 139, the McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, would impede, or even reverse, the ...
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AP: U.S. Warns of Trouble for Russia After Putin’s Latest Move

The United States government is criticizing the Putin regime in a reasonably strong statement (by diplomatic standards) today, says the Associated Press. The AP reports the arrest of the head of Russia's largest oil company, Yukos, in what are widely ...
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French Want It Both Ways

A lawyer quoted on Canadian TV has a good point about France: International lawyer Anne Baefsky said the French are playing a very dangerous game. "They want to have it both ways," she told CTV's Canada AM. "They started off ...
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When It Seems Like the Bad Old Days, Maybe It Is

Breaking news in Russia that seems to tell us a lot -- none of it positive -- about Vladimir Putin's commitment to democratic values and the rule of law. This exerpt is part of a long Associated Press report Saturday: ...
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