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October 5, 2009
Fans of Douglas Adams’ “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” books will remember that the answer to “life, the universe, and everything” was “42.” For American liberals, the answer to “health, insurance, and everything” appears to be 47. Liberal pundits…
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April 14, 2009
Armen Keteyian was befuddled by oil companies’ unwillingness to start drilling in leased land. The CBS correspondent filed a report on the CBS “Evening News” on April 13 wondering why the oil companies, ExxonMobil in particular, are allowing some of…
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April 3, 2009
After months of doom and gloom, suggestions of the next Great Depression and stories on “tent cities,” the New York Times and CNN.com ran similar, positive pieces on the housing market.
While the depressed housing market and economic recession…
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March 10, 2009
For all intents and purposes, Jim Cramer has left the Obama
“Hope and Change” express. In an interview with Meredith Viera on the March 10
“Today” show, Cramer, along with Erin Burnett of CNBC, sounded off on the Obama
administration’s plan to…
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July 17, 2007
The Iraq War is too expensive. Americans would be better off spending it on schools and hospitals. That’s the word from CNN’s July 14 “Your $$$$$” or “Your Money” program.
“This is a…
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January 22, 2009
It might be time to bail out the bailouts. That’s what New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Jan. 22.
Co-host Diane Sawyer asked Sorkin about the inauguration day stock market plunge and then its Jan…
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June 25, 2007
CNN’s “In the Money” offered a special slant on business news June 23 – a slant leaning left.
Far left.
In the first 16 minutes of the supposed business show, it…
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June 13, 2007
Americans work hard for their money. Too hard, according to CNN. Even worse than even grovelling medieval peasants scratching the land to survive.
That conclusion came from reporter Polly Labarre of…
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September 1, 2010
With any luck, we’re going to be seeing a lot more commentary like Jim Garrison’s Aug. 31 Huffington Post piece. What’s positive about it isn’t the apocalyptic hysteria of his descriptions of “climate shock,” entertaining as they are. Rather, it’s…
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December 4, 2008
Is it immature to say, “We told you so?”
The Business & Media Institute on Nov. 6 noted the media’s tendency to grant incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a free pass on his…