Author: Amy Ridenour

Climategate Stimulus Grant Covered by Fox, Limbaugh, Many Others

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Our press release revealing that over half a million dollars in federal stimulus money is funding the work of a key Climategate scientist, Penn State's Michael Mann, has been receiving a lot of attention. Stuart Varney of the Fox Business ...
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What Health Negotiators Are Arguing Over Now

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No happiness in the House Writing for the Hill, Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young are reporting on a growing problem in the health care negotiations: Some House Democrats believe their states would get shortchanged in the overhaul of the nation's ...
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Tom Borelli to Discuss Climategate Scientist Stimulus Grant on Fox Business Network

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National Center for Public Policy Free Enterprise Project Director Tom Borelli, Ph.D., will be a guest at 1 PM Eastern on Stuart Varney's show on the Fox Business Channel. Tom will be discussing the federal grant, through the so-called "stimulus," ...
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If Carbon Dioxide is Expended by Nancy Pelosi, Does It Still Cause Global Warming?

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CBS's Sharyl Attkisson revealed Monday (see a post by Noel Sheppard on Newsbusters for video) that "101 Congress-related" people flew to the Copenhagen climate summit last month, at tremendous cost to taxpayers. But although Attkisson ended the piece with a ...
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Administration Concludes UN “Impossible” Forum for Climate Negotiations

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The Obama Administration appears to have concluded that if the world's nations continue to try to negotiate a climate treaty at the United Nations, there won't be one. It almost makes you want the U.S. to stay a member... E-mail ...
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Does Government Know the Definition of the Word “Voluntary”?

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From the New York Times about a new plan by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to cut the salt intake of all Americans, even those who have never visited New York: "The plan is voluntary for food companies and ...
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Quote of Note: Secret Deals Are No Way to Plan a Ski Trip, Let Alone a Health Care System

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"Under wraps. Behind closed doors. Backroom deals. These phrases crop up again and again in reports of the Democrats' health care legislation. Would you go along with any plan that had these sinister signs swirling 'round it? Would you even ...
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In Newsweek, Ted Olson Is Wrong on Gay Marriage

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Former Solictor General Ted Olson's Newsweek essay, "A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage," is embarrassing for conservatives -- that is, embarrassing that we had a Solicitor General so willing to publicly use straw-man arguments. Of course, as it has ever ...
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Two Out of Two Majority Leaders Agree: The Public Can Shove Off

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While taking a look, for remembrance sake, at some of the calls this organization made for then-Majority Leader Trent Lott to resign during the Strom Thurmond controversy, I ran into an old blog post that highlights another way (besides putting ...
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Well, It Was 8 Years Ago

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Evidently, as recently as eight years ago, Barack Obama did not know the difference between being majority leader versus being president of the U.S. Senate. Not that I ever thought he was a wonk. Or is one now. But David ...
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