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October 15, 2010
The use of birth control has been an issue debated by ethicists in the United States for over a century. Until now, it’s been a moral issue, and few mainstream voices ever advocated the use of birth control for environmental reasons.
On…
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June 24, 2009
During the summer of 2008, on the eve of the collapse of the global financial markets and the presidential election, the price of oil and gas at the pump hit record levels and commanded a lot of attention from the media.As prices rose higher and…
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December 12, 2007
Investors weren’t the only ones disappointed with the Federal Reserve Board’s actions on December 11.
The Fed’s decision to cut the Fed funds rate 25 basis points and the Fed’s statement that…
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December 2, 2010
Leave it to navel-gazing so-called climate journalists to get to the bottom of the aftermath of ClimateGate.
The Yale Forum on Climate Change…
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December 1, 2010
Crickets chirping
That's the sound you would hear if you were looking for any sort of broadcast media coverage on site at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference going on now in Cancun. A survey of the broadcast networks over the week…
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November 30, 2010
If you want to bring up something that makes the left crazy, mention the Citizens United-Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision.
And, while the punditry on MSNBC and other liberal haunts would have you believe that big corporations were…
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November 22, 2010
Shorter Ezra Klein Nov. 21 column: Let them eat wonky policy papers!
If this is Klein trying to win the contest for the best impersonation of the inside-the-beltway 'Grinch Who Stole Christmas,' he may have pulled it off. In a not-so-stunning…
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November 17, 2010
As a reporter, when you turn to a whistleblower agriculture commissioner that’s a failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate for a state that has specific economic interests as over an issue you’re reporting on – isn’t that something that should be…
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November 12, 2010
It’s funny that every time the Republican Party has any sort of power in government, there’s a clamoring for so-called bipartisan action from the media elite.
Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, appeared on the Fox Business Network’s Nov.…
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November 11, 2010
Call it the law of unintended consequences, but supposing the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire by President Barack Obama, people might react in ways that are detrimental to the overall economy.
On CNBC’s Nov. 11 “Squawk on the Street,” Rial…