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March 23, 2011
In February 2011, Chevron lost a legal battle in an Ecuadorian court, but for years it had lost the battle for media fairness regarding the case.
CBS's "60 Minutes," The New York Times and other mainstream media outlets had already sided against…
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March 7, 2011
The unemployment rate finally dropped below 9 percent in February 2011, after 21 months at that rate or higher. The Labor Department reported March 4 that the rate had dropped 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent. The New York Times called it a "notable"…
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February 10, 2011
-The coal industry not only gets attacked by the media for being a "dirty" fossil fuel, it rarely gets positive coverage because the networks focus on disasters. Since Jan. 1, 2010, nearly 80 percent of the broadcast network stories about coal…
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February 4, 2011
Jobs are heading up and down at the same time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the morning of Feb. 4 that only 36,000 jobs were added in the month of January, but the unemployment rate dropped from 9.4 percent to 9.0 percent.
The…
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February 2, 2011
Feb. 6, 2011 will be the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birth. The Business & Media Institute seeks to remember his legacy with this video.
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January 31, 2011
Despite the fact that the mainstream media failed to take the ClimateGate scandal seriously, booksellers have taken notice. One book that arrived on bookstore shelves and display tables in January 2011 was 'Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power…
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January 21, 2011
Consumers beware, the Environmental Protection Agency is "poised to approve higher levels of corn-based ethanol in gasoline." Since drivers have already experienced the pain of higher gas prices as well as witnessed global food riots because of…
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January 5, 2011
So much for New Year resolutions. Liberal economic columnist Paul Krugman's policy prescriptions haven't changed.
In his latest column, printed in the Jan. 3 New York Times, Krugman continued to advocate New Deal-era solutions to bring down the…
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December 15, 2010
Federal court judge Henry Hudson ruled on Dec. 13, that the enforcement mechanism of ObamaCare - the individual mandate - was unconstitutional.
Hudson wrote, "The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the Minimum…
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December 10, 2010
If there was any doubt left about the anti-capitalist aims of global warming alarmists, Bolivian President Evo Morales quashed it with his Dec. 9 speech at the Cancun climate summit.
Morales blamed capitalist climate policies for 'genocide,' saying…