Author: David Ridenour

Now He’s Done It… NASA’s Hansen Violates Code of Conduct

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Earlier this week, Hansen was arrested along with Daryl Hannah (note to Daryl: The ditsy blond thing doesn't work when you're over 50), for acts of civil disobedience outside the White House. Hansen and a few hundred others were trying ...
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Andre Carson Should Be Censured

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U.S. Representative Andre Carson (D-IN) accused fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives of wanting not only to restore Jim Crow but also of wanting to see him lynched. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love ...
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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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