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April 14, 2008
Reports about people who are in trouble with their home mortgages have been common on news broadcasts in recent weeks. Often the borrower is portrayed as the victim and the lender is vilified.
However, the April 14 edition of CNN’s new…
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April 8, 2008
It’s an epic debate for the environmentally conscious – the tree versus the solar panel. Which does more for the environment?
The debate found a battleground in California, and the April 7 “CBS Evening News” highlighted the legal conflict…
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April 7, 2008
Living with a global economy has given protectionists plenty to gripe about.
In the 1970s and 1980s, it was the Japanese. At other times European investors have been the object of protectionist scorn. But over the last 20 years, it has…
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April 4, 2008
The momentum of embryonic stem cell research will be changing direction if Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has his way.
Specter forecasted that federal funding will be used to pay for embryonic stem cell research. He was promoting his book “…
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April 1, 2008
Could John McCain have been the Independent or Democratic senator from Arizona?
Though that sounds awkward, especially in the midst of a presidential race with McCain as the GOP’s nominee, but one Washington insider claimed McCain…
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March 28, 2008
As a Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) presidency becomes more of a possibility, the reality of his potential presidency becomes an issue for Americans to contemplate.
Although much of the coverage of the presidential election has been focused…
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March 27, 2008
To demonstrate that global warming is supposedly causing the collapse of nature, the March 26 “CBS Evening News” featured eroding coastlines causing people to lose homes in England as evidence.
“Much of the effects of climate change have…
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March 26, 2008
Regardless of whether global warming is a threat, one Washington insider predicts a carbon cap-and-trade system is inevitable because all three remaining presidential candidates support it.
Fred Krupp, the president of the left-wing…
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March 25, 2008
Almost every day, the network news breathlessly asks again: is the “housing crisis” over? Have gas prices topped out? Is the economy in recession? CBS and NBC took a downbeat approach to those questions March 24 and 25.
Existing Home Sales…
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March 24, 2008
ABC’s harmlessly named “profile” segment March 23 was, in essence, an attempt to discredit and bury the individual profiled – not too surprising, however, because he is a scientist who refuses to support wildly hyped global warming predictions…