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Obama Wants $50 Billion more for Stimulus, Networks Nearly Silent Is soccer more important to American taxpayers than President Obamas latest push for a $50…

The media may have found a new type of denier: the food denier.

In a June 15 ABC “Word News Tonight” story about the new USDA dietary guidelines, reporter Linsey Davis nearly did the unprecedented by holding the…

Everyone should be thankful that MSNBC has hired the outspoken angry critics and has managed to keep them out of the circles of power in government.

Case in point – MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, who was considering a run for the North Dakota’s open…

Forget Canada. If you’re fed up with America’s health care system, flee to…Rwanda.

In a June 14 New York Times article titled “A Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan,” reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. celebrated the African nation’s “…

It is hardly news that the American newspaper industry is failing.

At least seven different newspaper chains have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent years, including the Tribune Co. and The Rocky Mountain News, which…

This one was one that you just couldn’t let go – that libertarian champion and former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, Texas, doesn’t have a basic understanding of economics.

That was the claim made by CNBC…

As the media keep Goldman Sachs and Wall Street in their blame crosshairs for the financial crisis, government-sponsored entities (GSE’s) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have quietly snuck by without much criticism.

While a June 14…

Parents who assume the Nickelodeon website is kid-friendly should think again – its homepage links to a sister website called AddictingGames.com that features racy, sex-focused video games like “Naughty Babysitter,” “Booty Rider,” and “You da…

Reports are surfacing that BP is finally considering a suspension of its shareholder’s dividend, but what could have been done differently to avert the public relations nightmare BP is facing? Two CNBC hosts had some ideas about that, and about…

If tighter fuel emission regulations, commuter taxes, and carbon credits can’t reduce global warming, then perhaps whiter clouds will do the trick.

That’s the solution championed in a June 11 USA Today story. The story focused on a news…

Toys, food, packaging. Chemicals are in them all. The media make a living by sensationalizing the potential dangers of just about everything in our modern world. Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical found in many plastic items, was no exception.

We all know the BP oil spill is a huge mess. It’s going to be costly to clean up – but just how much?

On the June 10 broadcast of Fox Business Network’s “Bulls…

Is the anti-business sentiment so strong in the media that journalists can’t imagine why Americans would want a former CEO in political office?

In an appearance on “Good Morning America” June 10, former cable news host Catherine Crier…

When a protectionist law is enacted and nearly a century later it is inhibiting a recovery from major ecological catastrophe, it’s probably time to scrap it or at least temporarily waive it.

But instead a nearly century old provision…

Make sure to die when an estate tax is in effect, or the New York Times will be upset.

In a June 8 article, Times reporter David Kocieniewski complained about an “accounting quirk” that allowed Texas pipeline tycoon Dan L. Duncan’s…

Even the food police can’t catch every criminal.

At least that was the tone of a June 8 AP brief regarding a report by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council claiming that the Food and Drug Administration is “stretched…

We’ve heard politicians, even conservative Republicans, suggest BP would be held completely responsible for the devastation caused by the oil spill plaguing the Gulf of Mexico, even if it means its very existence.

That in…

How’s this for outside-the-box thinking – use nuclear explosives to stop the BP oil spill that is ravaging the Gulf Coast? 

According to some of the panelist on Fox News Channel’s “Forbes on Fox,” using nuclear materials would be a…

The advocacy fear-mongers have repeatedly zeroed in on what the American public eats. Whether it’s fat, salt, sugar – there is a seemingly endless list of what is good for you and what isn’t. Recently one of the foods these self-proclaimed food…

With China holding over $700 billion in U.S. debt, a lot of caution has been applied to the diplomatic relations between the United States and China by the Obama administration. However, gone relatively unnoticed has been the expansion of the…