If you are interested in the Social Security debate, I urge you to visit the website of the National Center for Policy Analysis. This evening, for example, it has a new two-page paper by Dr. Thomas R. Saving which succinctly ... READ MORE
Congratulations to Jeff at Backcountry Conservative and his fiancee, Jenn, upon their engagement. May you have very many happy years together ... READ MORE
A chilling report on the state of government health care in Canada... Toronto - A letter from the Moncton Hospital to a New Brunswick heart patient in need of an electrocardiogram said the appointment would be in three months. It ... READ MORE
I appreciate this post on the Bush Administration's mercury regulations by Sean at the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog. A note on Sean's observations in this post on the new autism study: Because so little is truly known about ... READ MORE
If you have heard of the Galveston, Texas alternative to Social Security and wondered what it was about, here's a very succinct summary from USA Today, written by the man who oversaw its adoption. It begins: The current debate about ... READ MORE
Sorry about the light-to-nonexistent posting. The Ridenour household has been facing the flu bug, but I think it now has been vanquished. Too bad the same can't be said for all the laundry that piled up ... READ MORE
I'm late to noticing this, but Michelle Malkin has rightly applauded a university that is awarding scholarships to students who have lost a parent in U.S. military combat. State legislatures around the country should consider adopting such a policy for ... READ MORE
Ed Haislmaier writes to add some scholarship to my post about solving the civil marriage conundrum faced by Prince Charles and Mrs. Parker-Bowles: ...there is a long-standing word for what you are proposing - "morganatic." Here are two definitions listed ... READ MORE
I guess this guy isn't a fan... Ms. Ridenour: While searching for news articles on US - French relations I stumbled upon your website. I guess I should describe it as your repugnant and ill-informed website. That you would bash ... READ MORE
I'd say this explains the mystery about why, back in December, Ukraine's president (then candidate) Viktor Yushchenko visited a Viennese clinic not known for its expertise in dioxin poisoning ... READ MORE
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