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January 30, 2009
Despite what the news media keep saying, capitalism and deregulation were not the causes of the financial meltdown.Instead, BB&T CEO John Allison pointed the finger at government creations like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
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July 25, 2006
OK. Who outsourced Lou Dobbs’s dictionary to China? That has to be the only explanation for why CNN’s resident anti-free trader Lou Dobbs claimed a guest critical of the Bush administration’s trade policies was…
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July 24, 2006
It’s a slow news day and you’re an environment reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. What do you do to kill time before your bicycle ride home? If you’re The Washington Post’s Michael Grunwald, you might pen a couple…
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February 20, 2008
No one could ever accuse the federal government of efficiently spending taxpayer dollars.
So when a new study was released February 13 showing how much the Congress had earmarked last year –…
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July 21, 2006
ABC’s Charles Gibson gave viewers of the July 20 “World News Tonight” little to chew on when he told them the government was scaling back testing for mad cow disease. The anchor only put forth the anti-industry side of…
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January 14, 2009
A new, New Deal may very well be on its way, but one of FDR’s own New Deal creations, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is in big trouble.Federally-owned TVA, the nation’s largest utility, recently made headlines for spilling more than a billion…
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July 11, 2006
Young people are too busy buying scores of jeans to worry about socking away money for retirement, ABC’s Betsy Stark suggested to viewers in the first story in her “Money Trap” series on American debt. But Stark left out…
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January 8, 2009
It took pornography to hear some economic sense from CNN on the issue of bailouts.“American Morning” reported on Jan. 8 that Larry Flynt, of Hustler magazine, and Joe Francis, of Girls Gone Wild, sent out a press release Jan. 7 asking for $5…
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January 7, 2009
Chances are you’ve seen the PSAs telling you how to prepare for the end of analog television broadcasting on Feb. 17. If you still own an analog TV, the ads tell you, you must purchase a converter box and attaching it to your existing set.But it…
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July 5, 2006
Hollywood usually gets a pass from the media’s participation in promoting class envy, but NBC’s Michael Okwu found a way to attack A-list Hollywood celebrities: their voiceover work for TV commercials. …