Author: Amy Ridenour

Bill O’Reilly: If Bush Deserves to Be Treated Fairly Vis-a-Vis Iraq, He Deserves to Be Treated Fairly on Global Warming

Bill O'Reilly was right (July 7 FNC O'Reilly Factor) when he emphatically said opinion columns should contain documentation for inflammatory accusations (his example was an International Herald-Tribune column calling President Bush a liar). I believe he's right, but I wish ...
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Yet, President Bush Wants This for Political Reasons…?

"When the complex Senate drug benefit was described to seniors who have drug coverage to ask if it would be better than the coverage they have now, 74% of seniors said no and only 16% said it would be better." ...
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White Like Us

Thanks to the National Center for Policy Analysis for noting this fact in a July 7 Minnesota Star-Tribune story by Kevin Diaz: Although blacks and Hispanics make up 26 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 3.5 percent of ...
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Volunteering for Dollars

In Al Hunt's Wall Street Journal column today, he complains about inadequate federal funding for AmericCorps volunteers. If they need funding, why are they called "volunteers"? ...
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Jesse Jackson: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

CNSNews.com just published a short story about Project 21's press release of earlier today. Jesse Jackson Urged to Sponsor Black Race Car Driver (CNSNews.com) - A conservative African-American leadership network says Jesse Jackson should put his money where his mouth ...
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Dissent

Not everyone agrees with my rosy picture of Senator Hatch's work on a solution to the asbestos crisis. "D.C." e-mailed me to write, in part: "Please read today's WSJ editorial: Senator Hatch's long-awaited 'reform' makes things worse. This contrived issue ...
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Choosing to Chew – Why Do Advocates of Choice Draw the Line at Tobacco?

Annette Niebelski has an interesting point on the Capital Research Center website today: Anti-smoking advocates don't want you to compare the health risks of smoking and using smokeless tobacco because they oppose all tobacco use. They tout a study in ...
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Make Way for Ducklings

"The one woman will throw herself into traffic to save baby ducks, but promotes human abortions as a career." -Our executive director, David Almasi, commenting on a June 28 Washington Post story about the communications director of the National Abortion ...
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A Modest Suggestion for Improving Government Oversight

National Policy Analysis #469 /
In a Gallup poll released June 19, only 29 percent of the public said it has "a great deal/quite a lot" of confidence in Congress. Although this is a higher figure than the 18 percent approval rating Congress earned in ...
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The Last Bastion of White Supremacy

Members of Project 21, the conservative black organization that has been sponsored by The National Center since 1992, have announced their support for the National Legal and Policy Center's call to NASCAR to cease its support for Jesse Jackson. According ...
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