Author: David Ridenour

If Weight Loss Programs Were Debt Ceiling Deals…

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Our friend, Lumpy, has agreed to finally do something about his spiraling, out-of control weight. He's planning significant cuts to his weight gain baseline... but not to his waistline. Lumpy's weight normally increases at the rate of about 10% per ...
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Washington Post Finds Room for Accuracy

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Last week, I chided The Washington Post's Jason Samenow for asserting that Washington, D.C. is in the midst of a record heatwave, given that determining this is all but impossible since DC's surface temperature readings have been taken at more ...
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Are You a Spendaholic? A Questionnaire for Members of Congress

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Is spending an addiction much like alcoholism? It sure appears to be the case. We modified 11 questions from Johns Hopkins University's "Test for Alcoholism" to create a "Test for Spendaholism," by substituting the words "drink" and "drinking" with the ...
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Why Can’t We…

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...return to our 1967 budget borders with swaps? ...
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Al Gore’s Wrong Lessons

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First two paragraphs from Al Gore's Rolling Stone article... "The first time I remember hearing the question 'is it real?' was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by 'professional wrestlers' one summer ...
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Al Gore’s Newest Hypocrisy

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First Al Gore used 20 times the electricity of the average American. Then he took luxury private jets rather than flying on more energy-efficient commercial flights to promote his film "An Inconvenient Truth." Now, he's urging people to keep it ...
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Three “Pinocchios” Awarded to Obama for Telling Whoppers – by Washington Post!

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"What we found [in President Obama's speech about Chrysler] is one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just ...
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The Debt Ceiling is an Opportunity, Says Reuters Columnist

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"Just who is the Treasury Secretary kidding?" on raising the debt limit, asks Reuters columnist James Pethokoukis, who adds: "The debt ceiling provides an opportunity to make a big dent in America's dangerous debt situation. Not taking advantage of this ...
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Are Speculators Gouging Us At The Pump?

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No, conclude Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of the Cato Institute, writing on Forbes.com: If this is going on we would expect to see some sort of inventory buildup. While crude inventories in the U.S. are increasing, they always ...
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Obama’s Exceedingly Warm Reception in Brazil…

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The Washington Post reports the "welcome offered in Brazil for Obama has been warm. Hundreds waited for him outside the theater on Floriano Peixoto, a huge public square in downtown Rio." But Josh Gerstein of Politico reports, "Brazilians protesting the ...
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