Author: David Ridenour

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A Study In Contrasts

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If Mexico had the same policies as the U.S., U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi wouldn't just have been released from prison, but given a path toward Mexican citizenship ...
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Has the SEIU Changed Its Mind About the Tea Party Being Racist?

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I heard a radio ad this morning this morning that attempted to show that support for the SEIU's demand for pay hikes of up to 40% for employees at Johns Hopkins Hospital is broad-based by including a quote from a ...
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Have a Koch and a Smile

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We need more Charles Kochs. Rather than vilifying him, we should be encouraging more Americans of means to follow his example. Regardless of your politics, regardless of whether you agree with his methods, you ought to agree with Mr. Koch's ...
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Meet Sir Richard Branson: Concentration Camp Commandant

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I wonder if Sir Richard Branson, when he called us "deniers" in response to our activism at the Apple shareholder meeting (a suggestion that we’re like holocaust deniers), realized that under a scenario in which we are akin to holocaust ...
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It’s Time to Limit Food Stamps to Nutritious Foods

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Fox News' Jesse Watters recently did the nation a tremendous service by introducing us to Jason Greenslate, a Cadillac Escalade-driving musician who has used the SNAP program to purchase such premium foods as lobster. His interview can be found here ...
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Meet Harry Reid: Health Climate Change Denier

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the other day that, despite all the "good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of the are untrue, but they're being told all over America." ObamaCare is causing a catastrophic change ...
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On DOJ’s Investigation of the IRS: The Fix is In, and Here’s How We Know

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Attorney General Eric Holder says that the Department of Justice's investigation into alleged wrongdoing at the IRS isn't over and that the leaks that no charges will be brought are false, because the investigation is on-going. Now we have the ...
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NOAA Should Get Out of the Hurricane Forecasting Business

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We once hired a chimp to make a point about forecasts. Saturday marked the official end of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season and once again, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proved itself utterly incapable of accurately forecasting hurricanes. It's ...
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ObamaCare Exchange Delays a Human Rights Violation?

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The wait time to get on ObamaCare's online exchange is 60 days so far, about half the average wait time for an actual surgical procedure in Canada. And Canadian wait times are so long that the country's Supreme Court once ...
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Harry Reid is Not Learning from the ObamaCare Fiasco

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You'd think that in the middle of the ObamaCare meltdown -- ObamaCare having just barely been approved with no bipartisan consensus and bypassing ordinary Senate procedures -- that Majority Leader Harry Reid would have learned something. He didn't: He just ...