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October 29, 2008
What do you get when you combine critique from a left-wing storefront and an off-base conclusion with a dose of overbearing hyperbole? A three-minute segment on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”
The Oct. 29 “Countdown” took a shot…
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October 29, 2008
This could be worse than mixing metaphors. If Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is going to ad lib in a speech about the economy by invoking black 1970s breakthrough TV, he could at least get it right.…
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October 29, 2008
Is it possible to tax only the rich and leave everyone else alone?
I have met and talked with many politicians, mostly when they were out speaking for their suppers just as I was. I repeatedly spent backstage time with four former U.S.…
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October 29, 2008
Left, Media Try to Cook Up a New New Deal
The
media have been obsessed with the Great Depression this year,
comparing our current time…
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October 29, 2008
1929 was a devastating year. The October stock market crash erased more than people’s life savings; in many cases it also robbed them of hope as the United States entered the Great Depression. It’s a year Americans have been…
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October 29, 2008
Could this be a sign Americans are rejecting redistributive socialism?
Although it hasn’t received much attention in the media, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has gained on Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in at least…
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October 29, 2008
Over the past year and a half, CBS business correspondent Anthony Mason has filed downbeat report after downbeat report for “CBS Evening News” – so negative that at in January 2008 anchor Katie Couric labeled him the “grim…
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October 29, 2008
A West Hollywood prankster is making Halloween headlines by hanging Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in effigy. But the real story of the past few weeks is the news media's high-tech lynching of the Alaska governor.
Coming out of…
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October 28, 2008
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said he thinks things are better when you “spread the wealth around” by raising taxes on the rich. But the unsettled point of debate is just where the line is between rich and poor.
The…
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October 28, 2008
The New York Times editorial board saw nothing but economic gloom past, present and future in its outlook for 2008.
A January 2 Times editorial was not at all optimistic about the new year and the economy, mocking President George W.…