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October 28, 2011
Occupy Wall Street, the global socialist/communist/anarchist revolutionary movement, wants to bill itself as mainstream and peaceful. They have complained loudly that police are pushing them out of their illegal gatherings in different cities,…
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September 15, 2011
The Washington Post might be a day late and $38 billion short, but it's being honest about Barack Obama's failed green jobs program. According to the Post, the "$38.6 billion loan guarantee program" has created just "3,545 new, permanent jobs" "…
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September 30, 2015
How do you spell hypocrisy? W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n P-o-s-t.
The Washington, D.C., paper of record has spent the past year filling bird cages and landfills with stories about income inequality – 156 in print alone and another 404 in blogs or 560…
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November 13, 2006
To quote the Randy Newman song, short people “got little noses and tiny little teeth.” According to the November 13 USA Today, that might be “a disability” – and a costly one at that.
Reporter Rita Rubin’s big story on little people was…
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November 7, 2006
Christmas came early for the energy company TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU) – but not in a good way. The New York Times dumped coal in the firm’s stocking over plans to build 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas and indicted the firm for its part in “…
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October 5, 2007
The “Road to Recession” lost its way. The latest job numbers show an increase of 110,000 jobs in September and a revision of the August numbers from a loss of 4,000 to an increase of 89,000. That means there have now been 49 straight months of…
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August 24, 2007
What’s a constitutional amendment among friends? Not much, if you are a liberal economist like Dean Baker. Baker wrote an August 20 piece on Commondreams.org urging Congress to eliminate foreclosures and let homeowners live in those houses…
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April 24, 2007
How do you fix problems with government? With more government, of course. That’s the CBS strategy based on reported problems at the Food and Drug Administration. In a two-story effort, the network pushed for more legislation, more regulation…
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April 17, 2007
Even when its actions “create a tremendous number of potential conflicts,” The New York Times treats AARP with respect and softens any criticism by consulting only the group’s friends.
AARP announced it will start offering health…
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April 12, 2007
Mandatory government regulation of carbon dioxide is “the right direction” to combat global warming according to CNN’s Ali Velshi.
Velshi’s April 12 “American Morning” report detailed how ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) CEO James Mulva embraced…