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Media Help Obama Gear Up for 'Stimulus, The Sequel' Political rhetoric and journalistic support suggest building momentum for a second stimulus package…

Recently I had a long lunch with an old friend. He sits on the board of one of the largest and most successful publicly traded regional banks in America. He got his seat when that regional bank acquired the very successful community bank he…

Nearly 200 years ago, emperor Napoleon came back from exile and re-conquered France without firing a shot. His conquest of Europe failed when Napoleon, in proper English terms, was soundly thrashed at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington.

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” That’s a saying once bungled by President George W. Bush, to the loud delight of the liberal media. But that same media should keep it in mind as Washington mulls a second round of…

TASS probably couldn’t have done it better. And NBC correspondent Jim Maceda seemed to be channeling Soviet Russia’s official state-run news agency in his glowing account of Russia Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s heavy-handed dealings with some…

Guess what? Sitting down and eating a 6,200-calorie lunch is probably bad for you.

Somehow, this was news to ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson.” In a July 6 segment, “World News” took three items from a recent Center for…

It’s a question dodged by President Barack Obama in his healthcare town hall on June 24 – would his government-sponsored health care plan drive out private business?

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had no qualms about answering…

President Obama held a “National Discussion on Healthcare Forum” on July 1 in which he was supposed to field questions about healthcare reform. Americans could submit their questions online using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. While Obama did…

To Eric Bolling of FOX Business Network, Michael Jackson will be remembered as a “fantastic, amazing singer, great entertainer,” but also a “financial dummy.” At the time of his death the King of Pop was $400 million in debt, the consequence of a…

Fire fighters are the solution to your problems. They put out fires, rescue children, and, in their spare time, help end injustice.

All in a day’s work for men and women who spend their careers running toward danger, not from it. But…

Not mentioned much in the current arguments over the health care “crisis,” and never mentioned in the selling of the federal takeover of the system, is the existence of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). These are special purpose savings accounts…

While many on the left are reveling in the downfall of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford after he disclosed his affair with a woman in Argentina, there’s a sympathetic figure being overlooked that might have the necessary background to fill the…

Time magazine’s Michael Grunwald attempted in an article on Time’s Web site to make connections between two of the most prominent issues facing America and congress today, healthcare and energy. But he put forward a flawed argument that lacked…

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Paul Krugman asserts that those of us who oppose government regulation to deal with climate change are committing "treason against…

From the same people that brought us anti-food industry motion pictures “Fast Food Nation” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” comes another film called “Food, Inc.” and it was ABC’s “Closer Look” into a beef recall June 28.

Anchor Dan Harris’s…

How much havoc can Obama wreak before our buyers’ remorse catches up with him?

“The audacity of speed.” Maybe it’s been used before, but the first time I heard the phrase was from Fortune’s Nina Easton on the June 21 “Meet The Press” It…

While some of the media have suggested Americans need to keep an open mind about President Barack Obama’s health care proposals, critics say there’s an underlying threat to those that are already insured.

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and…

During the summer of 2008, on the eve of the collapse of the global financial markets and the presidential election, the price of oil and gas at the pump hit record levels and commanded a lot of attention from the media.

As prices rose…

A Different Standard: Gas Price Coverage Shifts since 2008 High Reporting of consumer hardship, market-factor scrutiny and the effects Middle East turmoil on oil and gas…

With apologies to Janet Jackson, America’s rhythm nation is so 1989. Now it’s an Indoctri-nation. The mainstream media don’t tell us what’s going on; they tell us what to think. Today’s example is nationalized health care. It will be the topic…