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Who says a little engineering mixed in with your journalism is a bad thing? At least one MSNBC host and Washington Post reporter said it’s a journalist’s job to focus on “real issues” in the hotly debated issue of health care reform.

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To see and hear President Barack Obama say something with your own eyes and ears – that’s just a disinformation campaign according to Linda Douglass, communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform.

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CNBC offered skepticism of the White House Aug. 7, bringing up a “conspiracy theory” about whether President Obama learned ahead of time that the unemployment rate had fallen to 9.4 percent in July.

Co-host Erin Burnett asked…

The Senate stepped in to save Cash for Clunkers Aug. 6, giving it a $2 billion extension. But on Aug. 7, CNN.com found a big difference between independent analysis and government claims of which cars were most popular buys.

Peter Valdes-…

The left and the media commonly blame conservatives for hate speech. But as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved with her Nazi comment, the left is often the real guilty party. The latest example of this hypocrisy is The Washington Post’s Steven…

When in doubt blame conservatism, even when it comes to the struggles of a media outlet. Even when liberalism might be to blame.

Ever since Nielsen came out with the July numbers for CNBC that showed the network had suffered a…

In stories that cited experts, proponents outnumbered critics nearly three times as often. Sixty percent of the outside voices featured in network morning and evening show reports were supportive of the program, compared to 40 percent who were…

Networks Praise 'Clunker' Program, Downplay Critics ABC, CBS and NBC all say car trade-in scheme is a 'victim of its own success,' after burning through $1 billion in a week. In stories…

So Democrats don’t like all those ads for prescription drugs on T.V. – the ones for high cholesterol, enlarged prostates, dry eyes and, yes, ED. On C-Span recently, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D., Calif., said “a…

The resistance is well underway.

Affluent Americans – defined as the top 20 percent of U.S. households by income – spent about 10 percent less in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to a study by luxury-goods researcher Unity…

What goes up must come down. Unless it goes down further, sideways or moves some other way that no one really predicted.

That’s the way economics really works and no matter how many talking heads – right, left and center – tell you…

California is struggling through its worst economic times in decades – a $24 billion state government budget deficit, 11.6 percent unemployment and a struggling real estate market. So the possibility of new jobs coming to Contra Costa County – a…

Call it a preview of what could happen when the U.S. government steps in to regulate where carbon emissions by making it too expensive to burn fossil fuels – they’ll be exported overseas and burned anyway, negating the perceived benefit.

Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think the president’s health care plan will work, but not for the reasons you might think.

CNN’s Jim Acosta devoted a three-minute segment to the Scheiner’s left-wing criticism of the president’s health care plan…

Is the recession really over? That’s the question many are asking since Newsweek magazine declared it so in the cover story of its Aug. 3 issue.

Daniel Gross’ article cited home sales increases for June, the stock market’s 44 percent rally…

Could it be that the dire and desperate need for health care reform is overblown? Maybe the epic number of people suffering with no health care thanks to our badly broken system is exaggerated? Is it possible that health care doesn’t need to be…

Since Congressmen do not even read the bills they pass anymore, Barbara Walters asked the question on many Americans’ minds about healthcare “reform”: “What is the bill? Does anyone know?” A valid question, but unfortunately, “The View” turned to…

It’s the peak of summer – when sane people vacation and even Congress has recess. Last summer, it was also time for gas prices that peaked at stratospheric sums.

This summer not so much. While drivers might be thrilled, America’s media…

Liberals know that if the health care “overhaul” fails, they cannot blame Republicans. Therefore they are already taking shots against their own. While the Blue Dogs halt a bill that goes against their fiscally conservative values, the rest of…

Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting,” might be worried about keeping that gig. Why else would he act like he’s trying out for the job of Barney Frank’s press secretary?

The Massachusetts Representative appeared on…