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The old saying used to go ‘you are what you eat,’ but now the media wants that saying to be ‘you are what you see.’

News outlets from Time to Business Week picked up on a study released June 1 by the Journal of American…

Foreclosure on one’s home used to be a financially shameful matter. Today, homeowners are riding the foreclosure of financial irresponsibility wave to the bank by staying in foreclosed homes long after they’ve stopped making mortgage payments.…

An Associated Press article June 2 echoed the Left’s new talking point that small-government conservatives are being hypocrites when they ask for federal assistance during environmental disasters.

With the headline, “Conservatives seek…

If Jean Healge had been in “Mean Girls,” it’s safe to say she wouldn’t have been a member of The Plastics.

In a story light on facts but heavy on praise, CNN’s “American Morning” profiled Heagle and her two and a half-year quest to rid…

If you think government has all the answers, you’ll certainly approve of this call.

Former Clinton Secretary of Labor and CNBC contributor Robert Reich has determined it’s time for President Barack Obama to seize the reigns of control…

In The New York Times’ view, industries should surrender to government demands no matter what it would do to their bottom line.

On May 29, the Times wrote a long article called “The Hard Sell on Salt,” that unsympathetically outlined the…

Despite the fact that both The New York Times and NBC Nightly News have Facebook pages, they don’t appear to be friends of the social networking juggernaut.

On May 26, the media reported on Facebook’s announcement that it is…

Most probably wouldn’t think of Rolling Stone magazine as a primary source for information on something like financial regulation reform. However, if you listen to some of the left-wing talking heads like Ezra Klein, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi…

If network bias was measured in calories, then NBC Nightly News would be a double bacon cheeseburger.

On May 25, both NBC and CBS’s evening news broadcasts ran stories about a “study” by the left-leaning Center for Science in…

Newsweek’s Michael Hirsh doesn’t want the government to have a hand in financial reform. On the contrary, he’d rather the government have both hands firmly around Wall Street.

In his May 21 Newsweek Web Exclusive, Hirsh was…

Apparently, having Goldman Sachs connections is only a problem if you’re a Republican.

While on May 20, The Los Angeles Times gleefully reported that Meg Whitman dropped in the polls for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California…

At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited “hockey stick graph” didn’t like being mocked in a YouTube video. Now Mann is alleging he’s a victim of hate…

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) taking another tumble of 376 points on May 20, some investors are pointing to problems in Europe for the sell-off. However, there may be problems at home as well.

CNBC’s CME Group floor…

If celebrities, movies, and former vice presidents can’t sell people on global warming, maybe a cartoon can.

At least that’s what The New Yorker was hoping with its May 17 cover showing the “evolution” of global warming. The cartoon is a…

Since Obama took office, there’s been a leftward swing toward increased regulation. The news media have supported that tilt, generally failing to demand explanations for high profile failures of government regulators.

From the financial…

Media Favor Regulation, Barely Notice Failures of Regulators From the government's 'cozy' relationship with BP, to the SEC's failure to catch Madoff,…

The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree and, in the case of the mainstream media, the analysis doesn’t fall far from the network agenda.

On May 17, NBC’s “Today” and CBS’ “Early Show,” along with all three network evening…

If you listened to Barack Obama back during the 2008 presidential campaign, you may recall him explaining that words matter. According to leading climate scientist and M.I.T. professor Richard Lindzen, there is a good bit of wisdom in that, as…

If you asked people what the two key events in the 20th century were, most would likely point to World Wars I and II because they transformed civilization. However, can something like the debate over climate change be as equally transformative…

Most of us have heard or seen what global warming alarmists say the consequences will be if something isn’t done to limit the man’s impact on the environment. Al Gore, in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” warns global sea levels will rise by a…