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November 17, 2009
Joe the Plumber was certainly on to something when he got then-candidate Barack Obama to admit he wanted to redistribute the wealth, according former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee, who now…
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November 16, 2009
When the green peacock makes its annual appearance on the NBC family of networks, chances are there will be some sort of attack on business or the way people live their every day lives.
This time, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer and NBC chief…
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November 16, 2009
On any other day, NBC “Nightly News” would be attacking coal for being a dirty pollutant and advocating reliance on other forms of energy.
But on Nov. 15, as it began the first of its “Our Planet” segments for green week, the network used coal…
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November 13, 2009
J.P. Morgan Chase is the second-largest U.S. bank, but its CEO spoke out on Nov. 13 to condemn the policy of bailing out banks which are “too big to fail.”Jamie Dimon wrote in the Washington Post that even his bank should accept the risk of failure…
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November 12, 2009
Capitalism may “offer” freedom, but it doesn’t provide it according to British actor and liberal activist Ian McKellen.McKellen was discussing his latest role as “Number Two,” in AMC’s reinvention of the Cold War show “The Prisoner.” The liberal…
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November 12, 2009
We’ve come to expect intellectual dishonesty from the media elite, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, never disappoints.
Krugman, in a Nov. 11 post on his NYTimes.com blog titled “The agony of Fox…
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November 11, 2009
When President Obama took office, I set the over-under for reported unemployment at 16 percent. I have a few wagers on the over, which I would gladly forfeit should he resign and turn the reins over to somebody not hell-bent on destroying the…
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November 11, 2009
The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a “firm pledge” not to raise taxes on any family “making less than $250,000 a year.”…
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November 11, 2009
New from the Business & Media Institute
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November 11, 2009
In a recent Newsweek article, senior editor Michael Hirsh quoted Larry Summers who said: “Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened.” Summers is correct that the recent credit crisis and recession…