Author: Amy Ridenour

Kyoto: Russia Still on Fence

Vladimir Putin jokes about global warming being good for a cold country while environmentalists accidentally admit something we've said many times: The Kyoto global warming treaty's terms are harder on some countries (us) than others (Russia, among others) ...
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A Day to Appreciate Cars

A problem with public transportation: the federal government is closed today because Washington's subway system is closed. This Washington Post article has details. At 1 PM, it is sprinkling lightly here in DC; it's a bit breezy but nothing remarkable ...
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Russia Won’t End Accord With Iran to Build Reactor

Just what the Middle East and the World needs: A terrorist state with nuclear weapons ...
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Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase

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BACKGROUND: The Earth Liberation Front is taking responsibility for arson fires at three construction sites in an area in San Diego that had been used for agricultural purposes.1 This is the fifth arson attack against construction sites for which ELF ...
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Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Earth Liberation Front is taking responsibility for arson fires at three construction sites in an area in San Diego that had been used for agricultural purposes.1 This is the fifth arson attack against construction sites for which ELF ...
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A Liberal’s Definition of…

...unilateral is "anything done without United Nations approval." How else to explain their continuing insistence that U.S. actions in Iraq, conducted in concert with and with the support of thirty countries, is "unilateral"? ...
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Drivel Watch

From a fawning interview of Madeleine Albright in the current (Sept. 22) issue of Time magazine comes this whopper: Time interviewer J.F.O. McAllister: "Bush's foreign policy started as 'anything but Clinton' in almost every area - the Middle East, North ...
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A Lot of Money for Nothing

Another note from Mike Catazanzaro of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: Is the Lieberman-McCain climate change bill a good idea? Union members certainly don't think so. On September 9, a coalition called 'Unions for Jobs and the Environment' ...
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Indigenous People Tell Environmentalists to Stop Cultural Genocide

The era of evicting indigenous people from ancestral lands to make way for protected nature areas and parks will have to end, conservationists were told yesterday. Pygmies, Bedouins and Bushmen, among others, said they would no longer accept being brushed ...
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Hush Rush Redux

The left, specifically moveon.org and a handful of Republicans, apparently including former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, are attempting to increase government regulation of the news media. Part of the effort includes a reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," which ...
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