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April 7, 2009
On cable news channels most days, to find the news that’s truly interesting, important, threatening, and worthy of discussion, you have to ignore the talking heads and look to the “craw”’ across the bottom of the screen below them.
The other day,…
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April 7, 2009
Between the very cold winter in many places and everyone including Vanity Fair focused on the economic downturn, many in the news media took a vacation from global warming alarmism. But on April 6, NBC brought the hype back with yet another story…
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April 6, 2009
The 2008 vice presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA, Stewart Alexander, had a tough sell over the weekend. Alexander appeared on FOX News Channel’s “Bulls and Bears” Apr. 2 to make the case for socialism. His claim that “capitalism…
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April 6, 2009
Another sign that that the eco-movement is a victim of the economy: Condé Nast, the publisher of Vanity Fair has decided to kill its annual green issue, according to an article by Rachel Shields in the April 5 The Independent (UK).
“Condé Nast,…
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April 3, 2009
For the second time in a week, CNBC’s Rick Santelli faced down one of the standard-bearers of liberalism.
First, he explained to Huffington Post editor and founder Arianna Huffington on the March 31 “Squawk Box” that markets are more efficient in…
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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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April 3, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
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New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Amedeo Teti says that "Dumping and some state subsidies are unfair competition practices that create distortions of international competition and, in the long run…
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April 2, 2009
Laura Wells doesn’t think the “rich” hate her, but she might be wrong about that.
Wells, a California Green Party candidate for comptroller, was on “Cavuto” on the Fox Business Network April 1 to call for higher taxes on “the rich.”
Host Neil…
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April 2, 2009
Though most of the media haven’t noticed, one thing many of the world leaders meeting at the G20 summit in London agreed was the need to crackdown on tax havens.As The Wall Street Journal explained on April 2, the Organization for Economic…
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April 2, 2009
With the G20 meeting in London, there have been raucous protests – clashes with police in riot gear, destruction of property at nearby banks and even the death of one man from a heart attack. And the media have gone out of their way to cover every…