David A. Ridenour is vice president of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a position he has held since 1986. A frequent commentator on public policy issues, Ridenour has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, the NBC Nightly News and CNN, among others. Ridenour has testified before special political commissions of the United Nations General Assembly and before congressional committees. He has served on the executive committees of the Grassroots ESA Coalition, Project Relief and the Property Rights First! coalition. Mr. Ridenour's articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Detroit News, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, and many others. Mr. Ridenour is co-author, with David Almasi, of the 1990 book Nicaragua's Continuing Revolution (Signal Books). http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:05 GMT Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:05 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia. It's one of the largest federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2008/05/08/an_earmark___"k_street"_lobbyist_=_massive_federal_land_grab 17c9d3ce-30de-43d7-bc17-7fe399b8f2a0 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:05 GMT Americans love hospital-based TV shows, ranging from such oldies as Marcus Welby, M.D. to today's Grey's Anatomy, in which dedicated doctors rush to help victims of car crashes, chemical spills, natural disasters, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2008/05/02/excessive_jury_verdicts_lead_to_excessive_health_care_costs 178ae658-5b03-41ab-85ea-e93782dca6a4 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:52:24 GMT It seems that Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) had a bad case of sour grapes - sour green grapes. The nine-term Congressman has yet to make the customary concession call to Andy Harris, who defeated him in the February... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2008/02/17/rep_wayne_gilchrest_finds_it's_not_easy_being_green 2d7105ee-a00e-4221-974a-38e11f96fb14 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:56:52 GMT With the official hurricane season now over, we now have a better idea of what 85%+ forecast certainty meant: Wrong 100% of the time. In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2007/12/18/hurricane_forecasters_0-for-2_record_reveals_limits_of_climate_science 464f6682-4f23-4d11-9d9c-9ea67b67f305 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT Poor Al Gore. He's been in a downward spiral all year long. First, he received an Oscar for his documentary (or was it a "mockumentary"?), An Inconvenient Truth, from the out-of-touch motion picture industry. Then... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2007/10/17/things_the_nobel_committee_doesn't_want_you_to_know 2a239d81-2df9-46a9-8b39-beaaa4f5a826 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:09:46 GMT President George W. Bush has declared the Law of the Sea Treaty a victory of U.S. foreign policy and is lobbying the Senate to ratify it. But, like the President's USS Abraham Lincoln pronouncement about Iraq, it's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidARidenour/2007/09/26/another_premature_mission_accomplished_law_of_the_sea_treaty_still_seriously_flawed bbc79c85-994a-4ea0-a1fc-86fe2a9893e9 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:04:08 GMT