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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting
that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on
at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming
that our teenagers believe they are the…
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January 20, 2004
Claims that global warming will cause
mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic
coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the
United States featured stories…
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May 17, 2006
Money is the root of all evil.
That seems to be the medias Sunday school lesson to
audiences lately. First, they demonized oil companies for making too
much. Then they went after…
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September 26, 2007
This fall’s new shows are serving up some juicy stories of the twisted lives of businessmen, from “Big Shots” to “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Cane.”
Everywhere you look on TV – whether it’s primetime dramas or the evening news – businessmen…
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June 6, 2007
Americans are obsessed with rights. We always have been.
But the concept of rights our forefathers laid out in the Declaration of Independence has changed dramatically. Those rights – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – were…
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April 25, 2007
I’m a rare combination: a trained journalist who grew up understanding the value of guns.
My dad taught me how to shoot and made sure I understood safety, my rights and my responsibility – namely, that the government wouldn’t be around…
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January 31, 2007
If you want to shut down a debate, simply call your opponent a Nazi.
It’s quick, easy and requires no thought whatsoever.
Laugh at your opponent without allowing him to speak. Oh, and make a film about your point of view and name…
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September 10, 2008
Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Greed, Fraud and Ignorance by Richard Bitner. Paperback. 208 pages. Wiley. List price: $19.95.
Greed is bad.
Well, when it makes you so crazy that you become blind to – or don’t…
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April 23, 2008
If you’re not too concerned about global warming, you’re probably a regular American. If you think, however, that it’s on par with World War II as a threat to the nation, you’re the managing editor of Time magazine.
Al Gore’s “We” ad…
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