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September 11, 2025


Title: PARENTS DEMAND DIGNIFIED CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Topic: Americans with Disabilities
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

The day parents learn their child has a permanent and profound disability is the hardest day of their lives – except for all the days that follow.

Today, David Ridenour shares about his personal experience being a caregiver for a chronologically aged-adult son. David is the Chairman and former President of the National Center for Public Policy Research where he focuses on the organization’s Able Americans program.

Click here to read David Ridenour’s op-ed on this topic.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

How did David and his now-deceased wife feel when they were given a devastating diagnosis for their young son, Jon? David becomes very emotional remembering this day and the years that followed…

How did Jon react to his mother’s death?

Do the majority of states have higher populations of mentally ill individuals in their jails and prisons than they do in their public psychiatric facilities? David explains why this is so dangerous – both for the general population in prisons and for those who are mentally or physically disabled.



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Title: Part 2 of 2 - PARENTS DEMAND DIGNIFIED CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Topic: Americans with Disabilities
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is life like for David and his son, Jon? David recalls the many days and months they’ve spent in the hospital receiving care that cost hundred of thousands of dollars. Their story is not unique. It is the story of millions of Americans.

Is our society failing to provide for the needs of those with permanent disabilities?

What is the purpose, mission, and goal of Able Americans, a division of the National Center for Public Policy Research? Click here for the free resource guide from Able Americans.

Click here for more information about the new video series “Faces of the Disability Crisis” from the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Click here to help support the National Center for Public Policy Research.




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January 11, 2021


Title: What’s Next for America?
Topic: America Divided
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

With only days remaining in his Presidency, many are again calling for President Trump’s removal from office. What happens next?

David Ridenour is the President of the National Center for Public Policy Research. For more on this topic, click here.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Will the Trump-haters go away once he is no longer President? Or will they hound him through all eternity?

Did President Trump egg on and encourage the law-breakers last Wednesday?

The Left completely ignored the violent riots and protest for seven months. Are they now saying the attack last Wednesday is terrorism, calling for the most severe punishment possible?

Is it customary for Cabinet Secretaries and other appointed officials to resign before the next President officially takes office?

Have President Trump’s policies helped more Americans than they have harmed?

Will a free America survive the next two years?



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December 30, 2013


Title: Should they be Shuttered for Being so Way off Target?
Topic: Climate Change
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Part 1 of 2

In 2002, commenting on the possibility that Iraq had supplied or might supply Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to terrorists, Donald Rumsfeld, then Secretary of Defense, famously said: "...there are known knowns... There are known unknowns... But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know."

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been wrong seven of the past 10 years. Their credibility should be in the tanks.



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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: Climate Change
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Now the public has learned we are in the midst of a 17-year “pause” in global warming that not one of the 73 climate models us by the U.N. predicted.

Count them: 73… all W.R.O.N.G.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been wrong 7 of the past 10 years. Being wrong so frequently poses a more significant risk to NOAA than just a little embarrassment. It threatens to undermine the agency's credibility, undermine the public's faith in even its short-range forecasts, and ultimately place lives at risk.

We are NOT in a global warming period. Period. The Global Warming Alarmists should have no credibility, zero, zilch, nada…none.



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December 6, 2013


Title: Should they be Shuttered for Being so Way off Target?
Topic: Climate Change
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Part 1 of 2

In 2002, commenting on the possibility that Iraq had supplied or might supply Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to terrorists, Donald Rumsfeld, then Secretary of Defense, famously said: "...there are known knowns... There are known unknowns... But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know."

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been wrong seven of the past 10 years. Their credibility should be in the tanks.



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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: Climate Change
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Now the public has learned we are in the midst of a 17-year “pause” in global warming that not one of the 73 climate models us by the U.N. predicted.

Count them: 73… all W.R.O.N.G.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been wrong 7 of the past 10 years. Being wrong so frequently poses a more significant risk to NOAA than just a little embarrassment. It threatens to undermine the agency's credibility, undermine the public's faith in even its short-range forecasts, and ultimately place lives at risk.

We are NOT in a global warming period. Period. The Global Warming Alarmists should have no credibility, zero, zilch, nada…none.



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June 20, 2012


Title: $26 Million gift for Environmental Radicals
Topic: Natural Gas vs. Coal
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

Part 1 of 2

David Ridenour, President of the National Center for Public Policy Research, recently accused Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, of trying to sabotage the coal industry donating $26 million to the Sierra Club to fund a "Beyond Coal" campaign.

Listen in as Mr. Ridenour further explains why this donation is so disconcerting to some.



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Title: Part 2 of 2
Topic: Natural Gas vs. Coal
Discussed by David Ridenour
with National Center for Public Policy Research (www.NationalCenter.org)

David Ridenour continues his discussion on why the recent mega-million donation to the "Beyond Coal" campaign is confusing and troublesome to so many people, especially within the energy field. The donor, Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, even bragged about how successful they had been in their efforts to close numerous coal-fired projects. Please do not tell the shareholders of Chesapeake Energy that other groups are now giving to the Sierra Club to lobby against natural gas companies to shut down all drilling and production of natural gas in America.

If the Sierra Club is successful, it will bankrupt Chesapeake Energy!



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