Author: Amy Ridenour

Pelosi Tries to Clear Capitol; Crowd Isn’t Leaving

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Spent much of the day at the Tea Party rally outside the U.S. Capitol and returned home to blog about it, but I think I'm heading back. David Almasi is still there [see addendum below] and he tells me the ...
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Why Read Time or McClatchy, When You Can Just Visit the Media Matters Website Directly?

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Kate Pickert of Time magazine's Swampland column complains that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh responded to the left's exploitation of 11-year-old Marcelas Owens in its desperate 14-month effort to pass its health care takeover. According to Pickert, Limabugh said: "Now ...
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ObamaCare Would Harm Health Care Quality, Survey of Doctors Says

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Washington, DC - ObamaCare would drive practicing doctors out of business and suppress the recruitment of new physicians, resulting in long waits and rationed care for health care consumers. So concludes a new paper "ObamaCare Would Drive Doctors Out of ...
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Investor’s Business Daily Cites Us on Constitutionality of Self-Executing Rule

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Investor's Business Daily was kind enough to quote this blog in an editorial. An excerpt: Using a parliamentary trick ironically known as the "self-executing rule," Democrats plan on passing their massive health bill without voting. In November, they'll learn just ...
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Tea Party Video and Pictures from March 16 U.S. Capitol Code Red Rally

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National Center for Public Policy Research David Almasi delivers petitions to Rep. Michelle Bachmann at Tea Party Rally at the U.S. Capitol, March 16 National Center Executive Director David Almasi and other National Center staffers loaded up petitions for delivery ...
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On the Slaughter Solution, A Few More Thoughts

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Over at the Washington Examiner, Mark Tapscott has bloggedabout the constitutional issues I raised Sunday with regard to the so-called "Slaughter Solution." The Slaughter Solution is a proposed rule to allow the House to (ostensibly) pass the Senate's version of ...
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Louise Slaughter’s Denture Sob Story Raises Question

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Speaking of Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), why she didn't tell her constituent -- the one who allegedly wears her dead sister's dentures -- that Medicaid covers dentures in New York state? It's possible the constituent makes too much money to ...
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Medicaid, Medicare Patients Find it Hard to Find Doctors

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Government health care does not equal access to doctors This New York Times story by Kevin Sack explains that 47 million Americans are covered by Medicaid (the nation's state-based, federally-supported health insurance program for the poor), but that Medicaid patients ...
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National Center’s David Almasi to Speak at U.S. Capitol Tea Party Rally, Will Deliver Tens of Thousands of Petitions Against Socialized Health Care

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Britain Censors Climate News

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...but maybe not in the way you expect. It seems Britain's independent, non-governmental Advertising Standards Authority, charged with monitoring advertising for truthfulness, has banned advertisements by Britain's Labour government for exaggerating the risk posed by greenhouse gas emissions. The ads ...
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