Author: Amy Ridenour

Technically Bankrupt in Five Years

Thomas R. Saving of the National Center for Policy Analysis told the Senate Special Committee on Aging on July 29 that taxpayers will have to begin bailing out Social Security and Medicare with transfers from income taxes as early as ...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Asbestos… In Ten Minutes or Less

The asbestos liability crisis is one of those issues that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. It deserves attention because part of the issue involves people dying painful deaths who are getting -- pardon the word -- screwed, ...
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What Do Rockefellers Have Against Bathrooms, Anyway?

The Fox News Channel ran a story last night on something covered in this blog July 31: The DC PBS affiliate's protest against the construction of a building to house services -- such as a bathroom -- for Hispanic day ...
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Number of Tax-Subsidized Enviro Groups Doubled in 1990s — to 4,000

There is a worthy letter to the editor by Paul Taylor in today's Wall Street Journal. A brief excerpt: "...as a percent of GDP we spend as much on environmental protections as we spend on national defense and homeland security ...
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What’s at Stake With Medicare

If you want to know what's at stake during the debate over Medicare this summer -- what's at stake, that is, for everybody, not exclusively Medicare recipients -- Bob Bartley's July 7 column in the Wall Street Journal is a ...
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Errata

Interesting tidbit in an e-mail received today by our V.P., David Ridenour, from "J.S." in South Africa: "Zimbabwe must be one of the few places in the world where the largest note - Z$500 - can't buy you a beer, ...
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NAACP to Black Civil Rights Attorney: Shut Up

On July 30, under the headline "Me White, Me Dumb," I differed with a Fox News Channel guest who opined that whites can't teach black history because white people aren't capable of understanding what it is like to be black ...
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The Car They Don’t Want Us to Drive

More fan mail about a piece by Eric Peters and me on SUVs and those who hate them called "The Car They Want You to Drive:" "If you people are the product of American universities it is a sad testament ...
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Washington Times on Jesse Jackson

Greg Pierce of the Washington Times was kind enough to mention Project 21's recent exhortation to Jesse Jackson in his July 4 column:     The black leadership network Project 21 is pressuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson to support a promising black ...
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Jesse Jackson: Secretly Shy?

In this July 5 Orlando Sentinel story by Sandra Pedicini, one of Jesse Jackson's groups, Rainbow Sports, says it can't sponsor black race car driver Herbie Bagewell, Jr. or another black NASCAR driver because it "does not sponsor athletes." Why ...
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