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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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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…