Amy Ridenour

Amy Ridenour is chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think-tank on Capitol Hill. Readers may write her at 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002 or e-mail her at aridenour@nationalcenter.org

Most Recent Articles by Amy Ridenour:

If bureaucratic buttinskys back off, e-cigs can help smokers quit March 5, 2015
Smoking kills. Vaping is a safer alternative, and our nation’s regulatory policy will save lives if it reflects this fact.
Push to thwart climate change is power grab by politicized con artists May 15, 2014
Politicians are unreliable leaders, The IPCC is a political, not scientific, body, World isn’t warming
Mandating employers to pay for services you may not want violates their liberty and yours January 17, 2014
The Supreme Court will toss the mandate out. The Obama Administration should withdraw it now — prophylactically
It’s a rolling disaster headed for a train wreck.  Scrap it and start over! August 23, 2013
ObamaCare should be defunded
Without a secure border, Congress is headed for another disaster April 26, 2013
If we don’t want a repeat of our 1986 mistake, we can’t allow passage of immigration legislation that lets the executive branch determine when the border has been secured.
Candidates realized most voters view climate change as a canard promoted by self-serving profiteers November 9, 2012
Good riddance to global warming
Remove roadblocks to the free exercise of free enterprise June 19, 2012
America’s changed. We now have far greater barriers to economic growth, and much more of an information economy.
Relaxing restrictions on Chinese and Brazilian visitors endangers U.S. security and its economy March 9, 2012
So far, most of President Obama’s actions in office have sabotaged economic growth.
Like Ponzi’s swindle, Social Security’s glowing promises are clearly unsustainable November 17, 2011
Social Security is mandatory, Ponzi schemes are not.
Shipping jobs to China to produce costly light bulbs most people don’t want August 26, 2011
You light up my life: The motive behind the bulb ban was money: Incandescents have a low profit margin
High-speed rail boondoggle should be permanently side-tracked March 21, 2011
A brrage of news-features and op-eds extolling the benefits of President Obama's high-speed rail initiatives appear in coming days