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Catherine Maggio | June 15, 2009

The media’s obsession with chemicals in children’s products has led to a national health scare over the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). It’s a scare the rest of the world sees as unnecessary and irrelevant, according to a new study by the Statistical…

Jeff Poor | June 15, 2009

Usually when there’s turmoil in the Middle East, you’ll see a spike in the price of oil, but not this time.

On June 15, the first day of trading since the public backlash in Iran began from what many are calling a fraudulent election, the…

Jeff Poor | June 10, 2009

Want to see what populist-driven liberalism will do for the private sector? Take a gander at the latest comments from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

 

Frank, who told CNBC…

Dan Gainor | June 10, 2009

In “Fiddler on the Roof,” the hero Tevye sang of how he wished he were wealthy. “If I Were a Rich Man” became a Broadway and movie favorite as a catchy tune and even catchier sentiment. As the struggling Russian peasant explained, “It’s no shame…

Dan Kennedy | June 10, 2009

General Motors is worth approximately minus $90 billion. That’s a negative net worth of $90 billion. Into which the president has put about $60-billion total, for 60 percent ownership on our behalf. We have traded plus-$60-billion for minus $54-…

Jeff Poor | June 10, 2009

Don't think that cap-and-trade legislation comes at a cost? Well, think again.

 

In a June 9 interview on Bloomberg as the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the Waxman-Markey bill, David Sokol, chairman of Berkshire…

Jeff Poor | June 10, 2009

Many have claimed the federal government was playing fast and loose with the rules surrounding its takeover of General Motors and the circumstances surrounding the selection of which dealerships would remain open and those that wouldn’t. Fox News…

Editor, Baltimore Sun

Dear Editor:

Bravo for British ambassador Nigel Sheinwald's case for freer trade ("The peril of protectionism," June 8).

One clarification, though: he says that "our globalized economy has not…

Lauren O'Reilly | June 8, 2009

“Evil despots.”

 

Neil Cavuto thinks Obama’s czars should be labeled what they really are: “evil despots accountable to no one.”

 

The host of “Cavuto on FOX” heaped this and other insults onto Obama’s czars…

Matt Philbin | June 8, 2009

It’s small wonder the fawning media continue to note how “confident” and “cool” the new president is in office. The Sun King has assumed the throne and found it to his liking. Barack “L’État c’est Moi” Obama is a company man in a company town –…

Julia A. Seymour | June 5, 2009

Following a report on the rise in bankruptcies due to medical bills, “The Early Show” offered the Obama administration more free advertising for its health care agenda.

Anchor Harry Smith interviewed controversial Health and Human services…

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Floyd Norris wisely warns against the unintended consequences of tax policy - in this case, a one-time tax break on overseas profits…

Jeff Poor | June 4, 2009

Once again, a widely publicized tragedy is being blamed on man-caused global warming.

Warming alarmists have often bemoaned air travel saying it increases the threat of global warming, but this time they’re blaming the phenomenon for…

Jeff Poor | June 3, 2009

The government is continuing to encroach on freedoms more and more in the name of climate change. Case in point: An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy “green”…

Julia A. Seymour | June 3, 2009

In January, President Obama said that $787 billion stimulus package was desperately necessary to prevent more Americans from losing their jobs.

“For every day we wait or point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs,”…

Amy Menefee | June 3, 2009

If you “bitched about pundits shaping the debate and, possibly, the election outcomes” in 2008, then Jack Cafferty has the following message for you: “go to hell.”

It’s par for the course as the CNN anchor serves as judge, jury and…

BMI Staff | June 3, 2009

Obama, Media Likely Wrong on 2009 Job Figures ... By May Finding the 'glass half full,' nets and newspapers find good news about job loss, ignore failure of stimulus to halt…

Catherine Maggio | June 3, 2009

In a time when fiscal responsibility from politicians seems to be a thing of the past, NBC’s “Today Show”  and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” criticized California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his proposed budget cuts in his effort…

Dan Kennedy | June 3, 2009

If we would just inflate our tires and get regular tune-ups, drilling for oil would be unnecessary.

Now one of the many czars of the Oz-bama Regime has blithely suggested we should all be ordered to paint the roofs of our houses white…

Jeff Poor | June 3, 2009

Not too long ago, global warming activism in the U.S. Capitol made some sort of carbon cap-and-trade legislation seem like a near certainty. But the tide may be turning.

 

According to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking…