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July 6, 2009
It’s a question dodged by President Barack Obama in his healthcare town hall on June 24 – would his government-sponsored health care plan drive out private business?
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had no qualms about answering the question. The…
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July 2, 2009
President Obama held a “National Discussion on Healthcare Forum” on July 1 in which he was supposed to field questions about healthcare reform. Americans could submit their questions online using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. While Obama did field…
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July 2, 2009
To Eric Bolling of FOX Business Network, Michael Jackson will be remembered as a “fantastic, amazing singer, great entertainer,” but also a “financial dummy.” At the time of his death the King of Pop was $400 million in debt, the consequence of a…
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July 1, 2009
Fire fighters are the solution to your problems. They put out fires, rescue children, and, in their spare time, help end injustice.
All in a day’s work for men and women who spend their careers running toward danger, not from it. But danger in a…
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July 1, 2009
Not mentioned much in the current arguments over the health care “crisis,” and never mentioned in the selling of the federal takeover of the system, is the existence of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). These are special purpose savings accounts to…
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June 30, 2009
While many on the left are reveling in the downfall of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford after he disclosed his affair with a woman in Argentina, there’s a sympathetic figure being overlooked that might have the necessary background to fill the void…
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June 30, 2009
Time magazine’s Michael Grunwald attempted in an article on Time’s Web site to make connections between two of the most prominent issues facing America and congress today, healthcare and energy. But he put forward a flawed argument that lacked…
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June 29, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
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New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman asserts that those of us who oppose government regulation to deal with climate change are committing "treason against the planet" ("Betraying the Planet,"…
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June 29, 2009
From the same people that brought us anti-food industry motion pictures “Fast Food Nation” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” comes another film called “Food, Inc.” and it was ABC’s “Closer Look” into a beef recall June 28.Anchor Dan Harris’s tease built…
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June 25, 2009
How much havoc can Obama wreak before our buyers’ remorse catches up with him?
“The audacity of speed.” Maybe it’s been used before, but the first time I heard the phrase was from Fortune’s Nina Easton on the June 21 “Meet The Press” It’s a very…