Winston Churchill famously warned that history repeats itself unless people learn from past mistakes. As Congress debates a massive stimulus bill, critics of the stimulus plan warned about that very possibility on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls &…
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January 26, 2009
The old adage goes, “There are two sides to every issue.” It’s true, unless you report for The Washington Post. In a Jan. 26 story, Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson wrote that President Barack Obama was planning to reverse two Bush…
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January 26, 2009
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
In "Three Crises In One," Robert Samuelson double-counts by identifying "the collapse of consumer spending" and "a trade crisis" caused…
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January 26, 2009
News Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, DC
Dear Sir or Madam:
You report Jan. 25 that "President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and…
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January 26, 2009
Ever since Chuck Berry pleaded with “Maybellene,” car songs have been a staple of rock n’roll. But can this venerable tradition survive an eco-update? Rocker Neil Young is about to put it to the test with an entire album of songs about electric…
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January 26, 2009
Liberal feminists claim that President Obama’s administration will not have enough female representation and that the job creation part of his stimulus plan will favor men.
But on CNN’s Newsroom, lack of the feminist…
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January 26, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
The headline of your report on Mayor Lawrence Morrissey of Rockford, Ill., spending time in Washington begging pooh-bahs there…
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January 23, 2009
You’ve heard it here, there and everywhere in the news media – the time is now for a big-government economic stimulus package, not only to revive the economy, but to salvage America’s crumbling infrastructure.
That’s one of the selling…
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January 23, 2009
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner sides with those who worry, as you put it, that "Beijing has kept its currency artificially…
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January 22, 2009
Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C.
Dear Editor:
Interviewed this morning in your report on how Uncle Sam will assume many of the insurance obligations for the Metro transit system, Rep. Jim Moran asserted that this…
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January 22, 2009
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
President Obama's inaugural declaration that "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but…
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January 22, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Alberto Alesina and Luigi Zingales say that "this recession is unusual is that it was caused in large part by a significant…
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January 22, 2009
It might be time to bail out the bailouts. That’s what New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Jan. 22.
Co-host Diane Sawyer asked Sorkin about the inauguration day stock market plunge…
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January 21, 2009
It was 28 degrees in Washington, D.C. on inauguration day, so naturally NBC blamed the weather on “global warming.” During the network’s coverage of the inaugural parade on Jan. 20, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss claimed…
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January 21, 2009
After nearly two years of favorable treatment from seemingly every corner of the media since he announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2006, Obama is still finding ways to delight his biggest fans.
On his first day on the job,…
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January 21, 2009
According to President-elect Barack Obama’s latest radio address, this will be “the most open and accessible inauguration in history.”
I guess he forgot to tell his inauguration committee. They have “struck deals with three television…
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January 21, 2009
Turning on the news now is a dismal experience. It’s bleak. Most of the reporting and opining is ignorant or superficial, and it’s all depressing. We need some dramatically different news. When I was a kid, I read Mad Magazine, and enjoyed their…
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January 21, 2009
It is unclear where President Barack Obama will lead the United States of America – besides $825 billion or so deeper in debt if he approves the House Democrats’ stimulus package.
But what is clear is the direction liberal New York…
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January 21, 2009
Krugman's Obama Would be Like 'Franklin Delano'
Paul Krugman thinks he can shape policy with his New York Times
column, and President Barack Obama has proved open to
suggestions. If…
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January 21, 2009
Presidential inaugurations are traditionally bear market days for stock traders, but Jan. 20, 2009 was by far the worst. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lost 332 points (4 percent) and the broader S&P 500 index (S&P) lost nearly…
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