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May 19, 2010
If you listened to Barack Obama back during the 2008 presidential campaign, you may recall him explaining that words matter. According to leading climate scientist and M.I.T. professor Richard Lindzen, there is a good bit of wisdom in that, as it…
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May 18, 2010
If you asked people what the two key events in the 20th century were, most would likely point to World Wars I and II because they transformed civilization. However, can something like the debate over climate change be as equally transformative?…
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May 17, 2010
Most of us have heard or seen what global warming alarmists say the consequences will be if something isn’t done to limit the man’s impact on the environment. Al Gore, in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” warns global sea levels will rise by a…
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May 14, 2010
With European economies on the brink and other emerging markets slowing down, is there any possible way things could get worse?
As if the public needed any more evidence we’re living in perilous times, Dr. Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at…
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April 26, 2010
While questions swirl about the ins and outs of the Securities and Exchange Commission charges against Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), and the eventual result is no clearer.
According to CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, after the release of several e-…
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April 22, 2010
So you do your part and pay your taxes to the federal government. However, you feel you pay too much and you don’t like how that same government uses that money. Do you have the right to petition and protest that government?
If it’s on federal land…
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April 15, 2010
The media is still having trouble understanding the Tea Party movement and what it is protesting, even though its roots are clear.
On Feb. 19, 2009 during CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rick Santelli made his famous rant heard around the world, calling for a…
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April 14, 2010
Well, it only took them nearly a year to tackle this breakdown journalistic ethics, but the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) took on a CBS “60 Minutes” segment that aired back in May 2009.
Nonetheless, an analysis by Martha M. Hamilton posted on…
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March 30, 2010
Since Obama’s health care legislation has been signed into law, the media have been in overdrive about the backlash – whether it’s been former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s “reload” metaphor “targeting” certain congressional districts or how Republican…
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March 23, 2010
Is it too much to ask for a member of Congress to show a little grace after a major legislative victory and not resort back to the lowest common denominator?
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who in 2008 made her own socialist Freudian slip, couldn’t…