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October 27, 2008
Little did Joe the plumber know that Barack Obama was just scratching the surface when he answered Joe’s question with a desire to “spread the wealth around.” A new discovery of a 2001 radio appearance by Obama has thrust socialism into the…
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October 21, 2008
“It’s the economy, stupid.” That little James Carville nugget from the 1992 election is as true now as it was then. With Wall Street more of a roller coaster than an investment vehicle, ordinary Americans are worried about their future…
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October 15, 2008
America has always valued success. But at the same time, we’ve had a love affair with class warfare. Big businessmen – railroad tycoons, bankers and cattlemen – became easy targets for our discontent. Wealth, success, power could be summed…
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October 7, 2008
What a week! Capitol Hill battles over the bailout. Wall Street tumbles. Anchor John Roberts tells us “economists are now warning of a new recession.” Oops. That last bit comes from May 2004 – right as the recovery from the previous…
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October 1, 2008
We got a harsh reminder this week that “Dow” can be a shortened form of the word “Down.” Way down. Monday, the Dow dumped 777 points, a near-7-percent drop. The media that had hollered about economic problems when there were none, finally have…
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September 24, 2008
With the “meltdown” on Wall Street, it looks like global warming is striking the financial markets. Don’t laugh. It must have gone somewhere because it’s not doing as the left and the media had warned. Just a few months ago, supposedly…
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September 17, 2008
Bailout. It’s all you hear any more. The government helps J.P. Morgan Chase bail out Bear Stearns. After years of mismanagement, the government bails out home mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there’s talk of a bailout of Lehman…
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September 9, 2008
Convention time just ended for journalists, and they are on edge about the future. Not the political conventions – the annual Society of Professional Journalists event. With ad dollars shrinking and job losses mounting, the future they are most…
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September 3, 2008
Hollywood has been a liberal bastion for decades. Like the movies, pop music has been a leader for left-wing causes from Woody Guthrie in the ’30s to anti-Vietnam War folkies like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. The musicians that have…
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August 28, 2008
The American economy is a “disaster.” The media have been singing that song for at least a year. When a presidential candidate recites the refrain, it’s news. Or it should be. But in the election of 2008, such a ridiculous claim…