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August 5, 2009
In stories that cited experts, proponents outnumbered critics nearly three times as often.
Sixty percent of the outside voices featured in network morning and evening show reports were supportive of the program, compared to 40 percent who were…
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August 5, 2009
Networks Praise 'Clunker' Program, Downplay Critics
ABC, CBS and NBC all say car trade-in scheme is a 'victim of its own success,' after burning through $1 billion in a week. In stories…
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August 5, 2009
So Democrats don’t like all those ads for prescription drugs on T.V. – the ones for high cholesterol, enlarged prostates, dry eyes and, yes, ED. On C-Span recently, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D., Calif., said “a lot…
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August 5, 2009
The resistance is well underway.
Affluent Americans – defined as the top 20 percent of U.S. households by income – spent about 10 percent less in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to a study by luxury-goods researcher Unity Marketing, quoted in…
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August 4, 2009
What goes up must come down. Unless it goes down further, sideways or moves some other way that no one really predicted.
That’s the way economics really works and no matter how many talking heads – right, left and center – tell you otherwise, most…
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August 4, 2009
California is struggling through its worst economic times in decades – a $24 billion state government budget deficit, 11.6 percent unemployment and a struggling real estate market. So the possibility of new jobs coming to Contra Costa County – a…
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July 31, 2009
Call it a preview of what could happen when the U.S. government steps in to regulate where carbon emissions by making it too expensive to burn fossil fuels – they’ll be exported overseas and burned anyway, negating the perceived benefit.
A July 30…
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July 30, 2009
Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think the president’s health care plan will work, but not for the reasons you might think.CNN’s Jim Acosta devoted a three-minute segment to the Scheiner’s left-wing criticism of the president’s health care plan, but…
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July 30, 2009
Is the recession really over? That’s the question many are asking since Newsweek magazine declared it so in the cover story of its Aug. 3 issue.Daniel Gross’ article cited home sales increases for June, the stock market’s 44 percent rally since…
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July 30, 2009
Could it be that the dire and desperate need for health care reform is overblown? Maybe the epic number of people suffering with no health care thanks to our badly broken system is exaggerated? Is it possible that health care doesn’t need to be…
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