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January 27, 2009
The solution to the current economic downturn as put forth by the majority in Congress and touted by most of the news media is for the federal government to enact a massive “stimulus package.”
This stimulus package will be weighted towards federal…
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January 26, 2009
Winston Churchill famously warned that history repeats itself unless people learn from past mistakes. As Congress debates a massive stimulus bill, critics of the stimulus plan warned about that very possibility on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls &…
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January 26, 2009
The old adage goes, “There are two sides to every issue.” It’s true, unless you report for The Washington Post. In a Jan. 26 story, Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson wrote that President Barack Obama was planning to reverse two Bush administration…
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January 26, 2009
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
In "Three Crises In One," Robert Samuelson double-counts by identifying "the collapse of consumer spending" and "a trade crisis" caused by Americans now spending less on…
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January 26, 2009
News Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, DC
Dear Sir or Madam:
You report Jan. 25 that "President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel…
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January 26, 2009
Ever since Chuck Berry pleaded with “Maybellene,” car songs have been a staple of rock n’roll. But can this venerable tradition survive an eco-update? Rocker Neil Young is about to put it to the test with an entire album of songs about electric cars…
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January 26, 2009
Liberal feminists claim that President Obama’s administration will not have enough female representation and that the job creation part of his stimulus plan will favor men.
But on CNN’s Newsroom, lack of the feminist perspective certainly wasn’t…
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January 26, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
The headline of your report on Mayor Lawrence Morrissey of Rockford, Ill., spending time in Washington begging pooh-bahs there for money speaks volumes: "Wish…
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January 23, 2009
You’ve heard it here, there and everywhere in the news media – the time is now for a big-government economic stimulus package, not only to revive the economy, but to salvage America’s crumbling infrastructure.
That’s one of the selling points used…
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January 23, 2009
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner sides with those who worry, as you put it, that "Beijing has kept its currency artificially low to keep the prices of its goods…