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May 6, 2009
What do you do if your country is too incompetent to drill for oil effectively? Drill an oil company instead.
That’s exactly what tiny Ecuador is trying to do to oil giant Chevron – with the help of brain-dead American celebs, left-wing front…
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May 6, 2009
Media Deride Tax Haven 'Cheats' and 'Loopholes;' Ignore Benefits
When Obama announced his tax reform plan on May 4 the news media rapidly embraced his terms (crackdown, loophole, scam), but…
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May 6, 2009
Strike while the iron is hot from the flames of populism. That mixed metaphor might explain the timing of the Obama administration’s announcement of anti-corporate changes he would like to make to the tax code.
The administration’s allies in the…
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May 5, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
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To the Editor:
Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell are pleased that, at the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) summit in Washington, "business and government leaders will…
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May 4, 2009
President Obama held a press conference on May 4 to detail a “far-reaching crackdown on offshore tax avoidance, targeting many U.S.-based multinational corporations and wealthy individuals,” according to The Wall Street Journal.The Journal said on…
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April 30, 2009
CNN amped up the alarmism about swine flu April 30 when co-host John Roberts interviewed Dr. Martin Blaser of NYU without rounding out the segment with other opinions.
Roberts asked Blaser to put the virus, which had already sickened 109 people in…
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April 29, 2009
“Are we on the verge of a swine flu pandemic?” That was a question asked by Larry King for CNN on April 27, but also by many Americans since April 24 as the number of confirmed cases around the world grew.NBC’s Robert Bazell said the government didn…
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April 29, 2009
Media
Latch on to Swine Flu 'Pandemic'
The national news media served up hype with scary comparisons to
the 1918 flu epidemic with a side of unanswered questions in the…
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April 29, 2009
April 20 was certainly a red letter day for America.
That was when President Obama held his first photo-op cabinet meeting, noisily giving them their marching orders: find ways to save $100-million in 100 days. And then he proudly told all of us…
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April 29, 2009
Once again, in its quest for a scapegoat for a crisis facing society, the media has set its sights on a large corporation.
A segment by ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman, reporting from La Gloria, Mexico, went after Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE…