When will the broadcast networks and their news divisions finally realize that, as much as they love him, President Obama is costing them an arm and a leg? They keep giving up millions in ad revenue for primetime presidential news conferences…
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July 22, 2009
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”
That’s the strategy from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” that seems to playing out from President Barack Obama again. This time Obama was talking about Sen. Jim DeMint, R…
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July 22, 2009
Want to know the correct number of uninsured? Don’t turn to Reuters. In the July 22 article “Congress Making ‘Great Progress’ on Healthcare-Pelosi” Reuters reported that “President Barack Obama will hold a prime-time news conference to push for…
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July 22, 2009
Uncritical Condition President Obama is running a full court press to get a health care reform bill passed before Congress August recess, and hes gotten plenty of help from the networks. ABC…
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July 22, 2009
Give CBS’s morning crew this much credit: they’re not fickle. Even as the media air began perceptibly leaking from the president’s health care balloon, “The Early Show” was valiantly clinging to “maybes.”
On July 22, host Maggie…
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July 21, 2009
A shakedown is still a shakedown – even when every side of a “complicated” story is shown.
But “Crude,” Joe Berlinger’s documentary about the Amazon Defense Front’s $27-billion lawsuit against Chevron (NYSE:CVX) for allegedly…
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July 21, 2009
Any article seeking to gin up support for universal health care would have to rely on skewed numbers and sins of omission. Sure enough, “Health Care Proposal is Not Yet Final” by Philip Elliott of the Associated Press fit the bill.
In…
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July 21, 2009
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has found that the current plan for healthcare reform will add to the nation’s deficit and drive healthcare costs up, not down. However, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-SC, and disgraced former…
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July 16, 2009
Editor, Los Angeles Times
Dear Editor:
In "American aid to Africa" (July 15) you presume that money given by governments of rich western nations to governments of poor African nations is necessary if the economies of these African nations are to…
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July 15, 2009
Say the words “just a bill” and our TV civics lesson takes hold. Without realizing it, millions of Americans would instantly start humming a Schoolhouse Rock song entitled “I’m Just a Bill.”
The song is cartoon version of how a bill…
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July 15, 2009
Rejoice! The Amazing Ozbama is slowly disintegrating into OOPS-Bama.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the quietly growing, simmering buyers’ remorse - the realization that the President is anything but his promise, that his change…
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July 15, 2009
For 'Leverage,' Round Two of 'Destroying' Evil Businessmen TNTs business-bashing show returns for its second season July 15 after targeting insurance companies, military…
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July 15, 2009
Nearly 90 years ago Ludwig von Mises, one of the founders of the Austrian school of economics, pointed out that once government intervenes in a market it creates unintended consequences that lead to further government intervention. This process…
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July 15, 2009
“Leverage,” TNT’s anti-business caper drama, returns for a second season July 15 and the only question is which businessmen and industries it will find to malign this time around.
In it’s first season (released on DVD July 14), “Leverage”…
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July 15, 2009
This could only come from one of the most outspoken mouthpieces of the left: the cap-and-trade proposal that recently passed the U.S. House and now up for debate in the Senate will save people money because it will lower health costs.
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July 14, 2009
A lot of media attention has been focused on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and rightfully so. But are congressional Democrats using this media fixation as an opportunity to sneak through a $540-billion…
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July 14, 2009
Plenty of people had plenty of misgivings back in late 2008 about the government involving itself in the private sector through the TARP program. Now some of them are coming true.
A July 13 ABC “World News with Charles Gibson…
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July 10, 2009
“Good Morning America” consulted one of the news media’s favorite investors on July 10 asking Warren Buffet to advise their audience.
ABC correspondent Bianna Golodryga interviewed the liberal billionaire Warren Buffett about investing and…
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July 9, 2009
The broadcast networks continued their crusade against the bottled water industry after the left-wing Environmental Working Group released a study about bottled water labeling. Jane Houlihan, an EWG spokesperson, testified at a congressional…
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July 8, 2009
There could be a potential “tax break” the no one in the news has really picked up on with this ailing economy – a big drop in the price of oil. Although the media hype price increases, oil prices are dropping and could be heading toward lows…
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