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December 21, 2009
Activists and, in many cases, the news media often attack big businesses of all stripes, from coal, gas and oil to food or pharmaceutical companies.The targeted companies often refuse to defend themselves. But one high profile CEO decided to take a…
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July 30, 2008
Many in the media gleefully proclaimed the second scheduled increase of the federal minimum wage last week, but few journalists correctly reported how many people would benefit or included economists’ criticisms of the 2007…
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November 18, 2009
Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights at town hall meetings, share office space with ACORN and spent over $60 million to elect President Barack Obama.The left-wing, 2.1 million-member Service…
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November 13, 2009
J.P. Morgan Chase is the second-largest U.S. bank, but its CEO spoke out on Nov. 13 to condemn the policy of bailing out banks which are “too big to fail.”Jamie Dimon wrote in the Washington Post that even his bank should accept the risk of failure…
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November 12, 2009
Capitalism may “offer” freedom, but it doesn’t provide it according to British actor and liberal activist Ian McKellen.McKellen was discussing his latest role as “Number Two,” in AMC’s reinvention of the Cold War show “The Prisoner.” The liberal…
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November 4, 2009
Ford Motor Company took everyone by “surprise” Nov. 2, when it announced nearly a billion dollars in profit for the third quarter of 2009. The company also said it would be “solidly profitable” by 2011.CNN repeated the announcement on Nov. 3 “…
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November 11, 2009
The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a “firm pledge” not to raise taxes on any family “making less than $250,000 a year.”…
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October 28, 2009
The debate over health care legislation has raged for months. One line of attack coming from liberal politicians on the network news is that insurance companies simply make too much money.From “The Chris Matthews Show” to network appearances by…
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October 15, 2009
Michael Moore makes propaganda movies and many in the news media embraced his latest screed against the free markets: “Capitalism: A Love Story.” To NBC, hating capitalism makes Moore a go-to expert for Wall Street bashing.“Today” interviewed Moore…
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October 12, 2009
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an insurance lobbying group, just released its own cost estimate of the health care reform bill currently in the Senate Finance Committee’s hands.CNN’s Christine Romans criticized the report calling it a “…