Author: Amy Ridenour

Greg Kelly Online

We ran across an unofficial fan site for Fox's "awesome" Greg Kelly while clinking links on various blogs. Apparently he's not the only Fox war correspondent to raise heart rates. Check out this site for the "capitivating" Jennifer Eccleston and ...
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Better to Be a Role Model Than a Litigant

Blog readers will recall a report by Jeff Gannon of Talon News that former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk is suing a 20-year-old website operator for calling Abourezk a "traitor." Now comes a GOPUSA.com story by Gannon that Abourezk admits ...
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Larry Flynt, Man to Ignore

In this Marc Morano CNSNews.com story, Larry Flynt calls on the nation to pray for Bill O'Reilly's death. Flynt complains that O'Reilly shuts off people's microphones, so Flynt thinks a logical response is to give O'Reilly the ultimate dead mike ...
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Bush Meeting with Jesse Jackson Draws Mixed Reviews from Black Conservatives

According to an article by Kenneth Timmerman appearing on WorldNet Daily and in Insight magazine, several black conservatives, including Niger Innis of CORE, are upset that President Bush has met privately with Jesse Jackson (Innis: "This amounts to aiding and ...
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“Items Were Stored Where Anyone Could Help Themselves,” Says State Employee About Missing Government Property

On July 12, referencing a story about federal government employees using government credit cards to get themselves tatoos, I mentioned my frustration that government agencies aren't aggressively self-audited the way many think-tanks (including the National Center) are. This story from ...
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Civility, Schmility

"If anyone disagrees with you or has a different point of view, you demonize them and label them as extremists." - Marty Hayden, legislative director of Earthjustice, complaining about press releases issued by House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) ...
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Hilarious

There is a hilarious piece on National Review Online by Jennifer Nicholson Graham about her one and only telephone call to the Rush Limbaugh Show ...
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Hurricane Shelia

From David Almasi: The civil rights struggle has brought equality to America, but apparently not enough for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). She wants the names of hurricanes to be more ethnically diverse, according to a 7/9 article in The ...
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I’m Cold, Uninformed and Void of Compassion… And Unrepentant

A dissent to my July 18 blog entry about the Washington Post's coverage of a murder-suicide case in which a mother killed her toddler son: Dear Ms. Ridenour, On reading your reaction to the suicide of Reetika Vazirani, I wonder ...
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C-SPAN to Broadcast Reparations Speech

A note David Almasi asked me to pass along: A speech by Project 21 National Advisory Council member and nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock on the topic of slave reparations is scheduled to be broadcast by C-Span 1 on Saturday, ...
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