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June 15, 2010
Forget Canada. If you’re fed up with America’s health care system, flee to…Rwanda.
In a June 14 New York Times article titled “A Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan,” reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. celebrated the African nation’s “national health…
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June 11, 2010
If tighter fuel emission regulations, commuter taxes, and carbon credits can’t reduce global warming, then perhaps whiter clouds will do the trick.
That’s the solution championed in a June 11 USA Today story. The story focused on a news conference…
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June 9, 2010
Make sure to die when an estate tax is in effect, or the New York Times will be upset.
In a June 8 article, Times reporter David Kocieniewski complained about an “accounting quirk” that allowed Texas pipeline tycoon Dan L. Duncan’s heirs to inherit…
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June 9, 2010
Even the food police can’t catch every criminal.
At least that was the tone of a June 8 AP brief regarding a report by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council claiming that the Food and Drug Administration is “stretched thin and…
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June 2, 2010
If Jean Healge had been in “Mean Girls,” it’s safe to say she wouldn’t have been a member of The Plastics.
In a story light on facts but heavy on praise, CNN’s “American Morning” profiled Heagle and her two and a half-year quest to rid her life of…
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November 1, 2006
Since the 2003 Bush tax cuts, the media have joined the chorus of Democrats in singing an “anti-tax cut” hymn. As another election looms, some of the singers have changed, but the song remains the same.
“Three trillion dollars worth of…
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October 25, 2006
CNN is no “CSI,” but its reporters and anchors keep declaring things dead. They’ve called the American dream “impossible” and “a lost cause” and said the middle class is “in crisis” or going “out of business” – all in the month of October…
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October 18, 2006
Since the 2006 State of the Union address, the networks have complained about the deficit and called it “soaring,” “ballooning,” “record high” and “exploded.”
Though the deficit has trended steadily downward by billions of dollars,…
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October 11, 2006
The New York Times has put an ironic twist on the 8th Commandment: “Thou shalt not steal.” It’s accused churches nationwide of fleecing taxpayers and local governments using the First Amendment.
The Times devoted more than 17,000 words…
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October 4, 2006
One month away from the election, the media are right in line with the Democratic talking point of “stagnant wages.”
“We are in a period of stagnant wages for workers in this country,” said CNN’s Lou Dobbs on a September 15 CBS “Early…