Author: Amy Ridenour

Black, Hispanic Activists to Protest Treatment of Bush Judicial Nominees

There will be a rally protesting the unfair treatment of this Adninistration's judicial nominees in front of the offices of People for the American Way on September 8 at 10 AM, says the African-American leadership group Project 21. Its been ...
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From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Why Is Big Labor Afraid to Let Union Members See Their Books?

America's labor unions are fighting tooth and nail against a proposal that would make their books transparent. Why? In this piece by David Kendrick of the National Legal and Policy Center, union officials seem to be admitting that they want ...
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A Thought

Let's mandate that the health care plan for U.S. Senators and Congressmen be the Medicare system That way, our legislators will be highly motivated to fix it and to keep it stable, and they'll have first-hand experience with any of ...
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JFK Used Audits to Silence His Critics

Journalist John Berlau takes an in-depth, and to me, fascinating look in Insight magazine at the extent to which the Kennedy administration used IRS audits to harass and silence critics. The National Center for Public Policy Research has been audited ...
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9,000 Not Dead

Another interesting and informative e-mail just now from Mike Catanzaro of the staff of the U.S. Senate on Environment and Public Works: THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE Euro-climate alarmists are stewing over the heatwave sweeping the continent. There's much handwringing ...
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Will Drug Reimportation Lower Prescription Drug Prices?

A more libertarian take on the drug importation debate from the Oakland, California-based Independent Institute's Ariel Dillon ...
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Sue, Sam and Social Security, a Cautionary Tale

Sue, Sam and Social Security, a cautionary tale by Scott Burns in the Houston Chronicle (brought to my attention by the Cato Institute's SocialSecurity.org) ...
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Leadership

President Bush's speech on Iraq Sunday evening showed his leadership and courage in dealing with the war. We're going to need to see that side of George Bush if a good Medicare bill is to be approved this year. Without ...
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Leavitt Versus the Leviathan: Not So Much the Confirmation Process, But the EPA Itself

National Policy Analysis #485 /
Mike Leavitt deserves to be confirmed as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, not so much because he's a famous consensus-builder but because, in trying to be one as governor of Utah, he learned that environmental organizations can never, ever ...
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From the Peanut Gallery

An e-mail from Tom McCarty, who gives his affiliation as alyeska-pipeline.com: "What Conservatives Think....." Didn't know that was in the job description ...
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