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August 9, 2006
Greedy BP (NYSE: BP) skimped on maintenance to make even more money, charged liberal critics of the oil industry on the August 8 “World News with Charles Gibson” and “Nightly News.” Yet NBC’s Lisa Myers and ABC’s Betsy Stark…
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August 9, 2006
Bad
Company II
The Oscars are Hollywoods
presentation of its best. In 2006, half of the best movies
nominated in the top categories portrayed…
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August 9, 2006
There’s no business like show business – thank goodness. No other industry would make a name for itself attacking the very businessmen who make it a success. Hollywood goes even further, undermining the very concept of free enterprise that…
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August 9, 2006
The Senate recently blocked a vote on the bill that would have reduced the inheritance tax. In the media and in Congress, people have asked a lot of questions about the tax.
Why would we want to reduce or eliminate it? Wouldn’t this be a…
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August 8, 2006
You’re shopping for jeans at the mall and Banana Republic is charging you twice what you would pay at Old Navy or Sears. Quick, call the government and report them!
That’s ridiculous, you say.…
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August 8, 2006
Marking the one-year anniversary of longtime smoker Peter Jennings’ death from lung cancer, ABC’s Dr. Timothy Johnson wrote up a prescription as outdated and ineffective as bleeding a patient: growing government. …
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August 7, 2006
Leave it to “60 Minutes” to find a negative development in a tide of American prosperity lifting all boats.
“The Joneses, that mythic family America vainly tries to keep up with, are setting an…
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August 7, 2006
Has CNN’s reporting on food gone to the dogs?
The audience of the August 5 edition of “In the Money” might suspect as much. On that program business contributor Andy Serwer narrated a “…
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August 4, 2006
The CBS “Evening News” recently hinted that more regulation, not less, is needed to improve the nation’s electrical grid.
Reporter Trish Regan’s August 3 story displayed a chart showing an…
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August 3, 2006
Are you a Republican politician yearning for approval by The Washington Post? All it takes is standing up for tax increases or for hiking the minimum wage.
In separate articles in the August 3 Post, reporters Jeffrey Birnbaum and Michael…