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October 21, 2009
Ford
Had a Better Idea: No Bailout
Ford stunned everyone
with this week's announcement of nearly $1 billion in profit for
the third quarter. What's more is that the company did…
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October 21, 2009
It’s an era of hoaxes and hucksters. Balloons shaped like 1950s UFOs dominate the skies and missing children out their parents for their stupid stunts. TV news shows are filled with made up news stories and made up quotes about Rush Limbaugh. And…
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October 21, 2009
Uh-oh. According to a report in The Futurist Magazine, from 1982 to 2007, reading declined by nearly 20 percent for the total U.S. population and 30 percent for young adults aged 18-24. Presently, a huge percentage of the population – some 40…
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October 15, 2009
While many in the news media continue to inflate and exaggerate the number of uninsured Americans, National Public Radio is making a change.NPR’s deputy senior supervising editor Joe Neel drafted an e-mail that was sent out Oct. 14 to member…
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October 15, 2009
Michael Moore makes propaganda movies and many in the news media embraced his latest screed against the free markets: “Capitalism: A Love Story.” To NBC, hating capitalism makes Moore a go-to expert for Wall Street bashing.“Today” interviewed Moore…
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October 14, 2009
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is a media darling now that she was the only Republican to break ranks and vote a health care reform bill out of the Senate Finance Committee Oct. 13. “Good Morning America” interviewed Snowe about health care reform on…
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October 14, 2009
The headline should read: “400,000 of U.S. aren’t reading this.” That’s the true story of the latest newspaper cataclysm as USA Today is about to report a loss of 398,000 readers in just one year.
It’s only the latest bad news headline for an…
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October 14, 2009
In our weird new world, where hope and wishful thinking are the same as accomplishment in the confused minds of many – obviously including the Nobel Prize folks – it’s worth recognizing real accomplishment. For example, comedian Al Franken is…
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October 13, 2009
It’s an odd natural occurrence when you put MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews and CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer together, but when it happens they seem to draw some obvious conclusions – albeit nearly 10 months too late.Back in January, Cramer…
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October 12, 2009
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an insurance lobbying group, just released its own cost estimate of the health care reform bill currently in the Senate Finance Committee’s hands.CNN’s Christine Romans criticized the report calling it a “…