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March 26, 2008
What is it about government mandates that curse innovation to failure?
Ethanol turned out to be more environmentally harmful than the fossil fuels it was replacing via federal mandate. Now scientists understand the “green” compact…
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March 26, 2008
Too Little, Too Late - Media Discover Mercury in Fluorescent
Bulbs
First
it was ethanol a corny government mandate thats not all it
was cracked up to be. Now its light…
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March 26, 2008
Skyrocketing gasoline prices may be pushing the U.S. economy over the edge, but the oil-rich lords of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel don’t give a hoot.
Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president and Algeria’s…
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March 25, 2008
Almost every day, the network news breathlessly asks again: is the “housing crisis” over? Have gas prices topped out? Is the economy in recession? CBS and NBC took a downbeat approach to those questions March 24 and 25.
Existing Home Sales…
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March 24, 2008
How much of what has happened in the housing market is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s fault?
Not much, according to CNBC “Closing Bell” host Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo and CNBC “Street…
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March 24, 2008
CNBC celebrity stock picker Jim Cramer has an affinity for making over-the-top statements. While guest hosting CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” March 24, he turned his critical sights from policy makers and corporate CEOs to…
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March 24, 2008
Finally, we get some clarity from CNBC’s Jim Cramer about his remarks concerning the Bear Stearns fallout.
Last week, after it was announced JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) was going to take over…
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March 24, 2008
ABC’s harmlessly named “profile” segment March 23 was, in essence, an attempt to discredit and bury the individual profiled – not too surprising, however, because he is a scientist who refuses to support wildly hyped global warming predictions…
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March 24, 2008
As usual, Lenten season was time to cue up the media attacks on Christianity and faith.
One of the most offensive blows in the annual Easter faith-flagellation fest came from Comedy Central on a show called Root of All Evil. Comedian-prosecutors…
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March 22, 2008
It’s not a script for the next science-fiction thriller, but renowned British scientist James Lovelock is giving human civilization less than 32 years before all hell breaks loose because of the effects of global warming.
Lovelock said…