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On any other day, NBC “Nightly News” would be attacking coal for being a dirty pollutant and advocating reliance on other forms of energy.

But on Nov. 15, as it began the first of its “Our Planet” segments for green week, the network…

J.P. Morgan Chase is the second-largest U.S. bank, but its CEO spoke out on Nov. 13 to condemn the policy of bailing out banks which are “too big to fail.”

Jamie Dimon wrote in the Washington Post that even his bank should accept the risk…

Capitalism may “offer” freedom, but it doesn’t provide it according to British actor and liberal activist Ian McKellen.

McKellen was discussing his latest role as “Number Two,” in AMC’s reinvention of the Cold War show “The Prisoner.” The…

We’ve come to expect intellectual dishonesty from the media elite, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, never disappoints.

Krugman, in a Nov. 11 post on his NYTimes.com blog titled…

When President Obama took office, I set the over-under for reported unemployment at 16 percent. I have a few wagers on the over, which I would gladly forfeit should he resign and turn the reins over to somebody not hell-bent on destroying the…

The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a “firm pledge” not to raise taxes on any family “making less than $250,000 a year…

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In a recent Newsweek article, senior editor Michael Hirsh quoted Larry Summers who said: “Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened.” Summers is correct that the recent credit crisis and…

There’s a long history of the media and left-leaning organizations working in accord to promote a cause, perhaps meaning well – but playing fast and loose with the science. Remember the great Alar scare of the 1980s? How about the 1970s and…

As we survey the horror of the Ft. Hood massacre, it might be useful to remember that we've been here before, with another shooting 16 years ago. The circumstances were very different, but the reaction of the media and other elite – the excusing…

President Obama lobbied for government stimulus almost as soon as he took office. In order to gain passage of that $787 billion spending spree, Obama warned of economic “catastrophe” including double-digit unemployment.

Roughly 9 months…

It's a maxim of journalism that newspapers are supposed to 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.' Yet there are few industries more afflicted by problems than the news business, and some journalists and their supporters on the left…

Executive Summary

The pattern repeats itself - an industry in chaos, companies going bankrupt, thousands of workers losing jobs. It's time for government intervention. That's been the Obama administration's model for Wall Street,…

Ford Motor Company took everyone by “surprise” Nov. 2, when it announced nearly a billion dollars in profit for the third quarter of 2009. The company also said it would be “solidly profitable” by 2011.

CNN repeated the announcement on Nov…

Ford Had a Better Idea: No Bailout Ford stunned everyone with this week's announcement of nearly $1 billion in profit for the third quarter. What's more is that…

It’s been a year since the American public first said “I do” to Barack Obama and it’s still a honeymoon period for the mainstream press. The first year of marriage might have been a bit rocky, but journalists still have that crush on Obama.…

Almost 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell symbolizing the collapse of communism in Europe, but one Washington Post book reviewer put a very different spin on that historical day.

In the Nov. 1 Washington Post, Gerard DeGroot, a…

The Obama administration continues to push its “jobs created and saved” theme, taking credit for up to a million jobs on account of its $787 billion economic stimulus package (roughly a quarter of which has been spent). But some in the media…

CNN’s “American Morning” condemned socialism and praised capitalism on Oct. 30. No, they weren’t discussing big bailouts or entrepreneurs. They were talking about Halloween candy.

“Okay. This is the most, this is the most…

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To the Editor:

You report that "Politicians Butt In at Bailed-Out GM" (Oct. 29). Most people - including opponents of bailouts - react to…