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December 12, 2008
All is fair in love and war … and environmentalism.
A Greenpeace advertisement attacking the fishing industry that was posted on YouTube Dec. 3 spells out doom and gloom for a type of Pollock…
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December 11, 2008
Call it a classic Keynesian fiscal strategy, as some have, but in the midst of this financial crisis, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, has a more cost-efficient means of stimulating the American economy than massive bailouts. .
Gohmert,…
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December 11, 2008
“Nightly News” went out of its way to show how the American public relies on government Dec. 10 by focusing on the public library in it’s “Hard Times” series.
The broadcast examined the hardships public libraries are facing in the…
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December 10, 2008
A new TV program, loosely swiped from a TV show of long ago, debuts tonight on Fox. As I understand it, in “The Secret Millionaire” we will see millionaires go undercover, work for a week in some poorly paid job and live as the oppressed…
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December 10, 2008
The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2008
Each year the Business…
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December 10, 2008
Remember when you were young and encouraged to take your vitamins to grow up big and strong? That was probably a waste of time – at least at least according two of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Dec. 9.…
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December 10, 2008
When the media aren’t talking about the bailout, they’re talking jobs. They should be. Job losses and unemployment are up. A year into what we just heard is an official recession, unemployment hit 6.7 percent. That’s the highest for the Bush…
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December 10, 2008
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
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New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Thomas Frank laments that "market logic" promotes transactions that he finds unappealing, such as surrogate-mother contracts ("Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic…
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December 9, 2008
Taking money from the federal government was bound to have unintended consequences, and that’s becoming evident in the case of a closed Midwestern factory.
Amid all the fear and uncertainty of…
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December 9, 2008
Editor, Baltimore Sun
Dear Editor:
Dan Neil wants to nationalize General Motors, in part because "without big subsidies, there is no way in the near term to build these [electric] vehicles and make a reasonable profit, because of the stubbornly…