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Julia A. Seymour | November 18, 2009

Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights at town hall meetings, share office space with ACORN and spent over $60 million to elect President Barack Obama.

The left-wing, 2.1 million-member…

BMI Staff | November 18, 2009

Networks Ignore Alliances, Thuggery and Lobbying of SEIU Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights…

Dan Gainor | November 17, 2009

Forget the stock market. Sure, the Dow has made a stunning improvement since January 20. The market has jumped from just under 8,000 to over 10,000 – a 29 percent increase.

But that’s not the place to put your money. Unemployment is…

Jeff Poor | November 17, 2009

Joe the Plumber was certainly on to something when he got then-candidate Barack Obama to admit he wanted to redistribute the wealth, according former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

 

Jeff Poor | November 16, 2009

When the green peacock makes its annual appearance on the NBC family of networks, chances are there will be some sort of attack on business or the way people live their every day lives.

This time, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer and NBC…

Julia A. Seymour | November 16, 2009

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…

Julia A. Seymour | November 13, 2009

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…

Julia A. Seymour | November 12, 2009

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…

Jeff Poor | November 12, 2009

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…

Dan Kennedy | November 11, 2009

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…

Julia A. Seymour | November 11, 2009

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…

BMI Staff | November 11, 2009

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Gary Wolfram, Ph.D. | November 11, 2009

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…

Jeff Poor | November 10, 2009

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…

Matt Philbin | November 10, 2009

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…

Julia A. Seymour | November 6, 2009

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…

BMI Staff | November 4, 2009

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…

BMI Staff | November 4, 2009

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,…

Julia A. Seymour | November 4, 2009

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…

BMI Staff | November 4, 2009

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…