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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…
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August 21, 2008
It is a matter of liberal orthodoxy that abortion is all about choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Liberals support choice when it’s choice they agree with. The second that changes, they call for government mandates. No…
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August 13, 2008
“Welcome to the four-day working week,” with apologies to Elvis Costello. That’s right, the four-day work week has arrived – at least according to the media and assorted politicians. High gas prices have given way to a new kind of highway…
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August 6, 2008
Six years. That’s how long it took for the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis to grow from warning sign to $25-billion bailout. In most cases, six years is ample warning. We won WWII in less time. But when The Wall Street Journal compared…
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June 18, 2008
“We’re going to scare you to death.”
That’s not the advertising slogan for “Saw XVII.” It might well be the motto of modern journalism. “If it bleeds, it leads” has always been a news motto. Somewhere along the way, news went from public…
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June 4, 2008
Truth, it is said, is the first casualty in war. CACI International Inc. Chairman of the Board Jack London found that out the hard way. His company went to Iraq to help the war effort.
That commitment led employees to a war zone and to…
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May 28, 2008
One look at statistics – from GDP growth to the unemployment rate – and it’s obvious this isn’t the worst economic time in U.S. history. But it might be the worst journalistically. The major media give us only two degrees of economic news –…
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May 14, 2008
Angry about the price of gas? It used to be you could simply blame Bill Clinton.
In December 1995, Clinton helped make sure our margin for error with oil supplies would one day be no margin at all. Clinton vetoed a budget that authorized…
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April 2, 2008
Pity poor Al Gore. The former presidential candidate has a trophy room Tiger Woods would envy. He’s got the Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy, even an Oscar. But much like his failed presidential campaign, Gore can’t win the big game.
Gore’s…
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March 12, 2008
To hear the mainstream media tell it, we have a Titanic problem with global warming. Not large, but Titanic in that they believe “unsinkable” mankind is facing a looming cataclysm.
How do they know? Because some scientists tell them that’…
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