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January 18, 2006
CNNs Andy Serwer fired the medias latest salvo against American
business with his January 19 swipe at corporate salaries. The
Fortune magazine editor shut out defenders of corporate executives…
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January 18, 2006
There are few guarantees in this life. The most widely recognized
are death and taxes, but its also guaranteed that government isnt
as concerned about your well-being as you are. Liberals claim to…
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January 11, 2006
The recent economic expansion in the United States bolstered by
news of 2 million jobs created in 2005 and an unemployment rate
below 5 percent is in large part due to the 2003 tax reduction…
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January 4, 2006
There was a time when we had nothing to fear but fear itself. Those
were the days. Now the home of the brave is anything but and
Americans find ourselves in a constant state of fear.
We…
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December 15, 2006
Freedom of information is the backbone of good journalism. Keeping information open and available also helps democracy function. But contrary to the “information-wants-to-be-free” mindset left over from the dot-com era, free information isn’t…
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December 6, 2006
One of the priorities of the new Congress, and something approved of by most of the media, is to expand federal grants and loans to college students. While this may sound like a good way to increase access to higher education, it is another…
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November 29, 2006
In 1975, Bob Dylan sang about being given “shelter from the storm.” In 2006, the media warned us that was what everyone would need facing another devastating hurricane season.
Americans braced back in May as the media belted out another…
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November 21, 2006
Thanksgiving in America is a time of traditions – turkey and dressing, gathering around the table, watching football and seeing schoolchildren dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians, reenacting the first Thanksgiving. One of the most fascinating…
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November 15, 2006
Don’t eat that! It doesn’t even matter what it is, somewhere someone on network news shows is probably telling you it’s “bad for you.”
If you believe them, almost everything meets that requirement. Caffeine. Sugar. Cereal. Meat. Alcohol.…
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November 8, 2006
The frenzy about trans fats as dietary killers is escalating. Professors from the Harvard School of Public Health tell the media that trans fats kill hundreds of thousands of us annually and represent "the most dangerous ingredient in our diet…