Author: Amy Ridenour

If Republicans Controlled Congress…

"If Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, this headache never would have happened," says Scripps Howard columnist (and Project 21 member) Deroy Murdock, tongue firmly in cheek, about the Medicare prescription drug bills. Deroy, writing for National Review Online, ...
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Frenchmen Set Fire to Eiffel Tower to Signal Surrender to Boy Scout Troop

From the guad:)spot blog, but appreciated by me: Smoke billowing from Eiffel Tower! Frenchmen set fire to the tower to signal their surrender to an American Boy Scout troop touring through France this morning. The boys were apparently overheard by ...
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FDA Says “Drug Reimportation” Price Control Bill Would Raise Drug Prices $2 Billion

An article in today's Washington Post begins: In a strongly worded letter to Congress, the Food and Drug Administration has come out swinging against proposed legislation that would legalize reimportation of lower-cost pharmaceutical drugs from Canada and other countries. The ...
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If Bill O’Reilly…

...thinks the "shoot a naked woman with a paint gun" story is so appalling, why does his show keep showing viewers very-slightly blurred footage of a naked woman running away from a guy with a paint-ball gun? ...
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It is Possible This is the Most Idiotic Thing I Have Ever Seen (Though Competition is Steep)

I saw this on The Angry Clam Blog, after being directed to it by Instapundit.com. Note the hilarity where the release says the UC Berkeley researchers "stressed that their findings are not judgmental." Researchers help define what makes a political ...
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A Double-Standard?

A note from my colleague David Almasi: Like the liberals who are trying to derail the Bush presidency over the 16 words about Iraq and uranium in his State of the Union address, liberals earlier this year tried to end ...
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Worth Reading

Andrew Sullivan's blog has a very interesting piece today under the headline "Gilligan's Island of Untruth" about deceptive anti-American reporting by the BBC vis-a-vis Iraq ...
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Stop the (Web) Presses

The Washington Post has breaking news on its website just now: "Democrats Still Lack Favorite." I think we already knew ...
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What’s With the Washington Post, Anyway?

Just three days after my first diatribe on this subject in this blog, I am once again wondering about the Washington Post's attitude toward children. Specifically, if the Post's editorial position (accidentally or otherwise) is that the death of a ...
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Nasty Debate Over a Nasty Idea

The issue of allowing prescription drug reimportation probably seems boring to a lot of people, but it has been one of the hotter -- even divisively nasty -- topics in conservative circles in Washington over the past week. In an ...
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