Want to see what populist-driven liberalism will do for the private sector? Take a gander at the latest comments from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Frank, who told CNBC…
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June 10, 2009
In “Fiddler on the Roof,” the hero Tevye sang of how he wished he were wealthy. “If I Were a Rich Man” became a Broadway and movie favorite as a catchy tune and even catchier sentiment. As the struggling Russian peasant explained, “It’s no shame…
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June 10, 2009
General Motors is worth approximately minus $90 billion. That’s a negative net worth of $90 billion. Into which the president has put about $60-billion total, for 60 percent ownership on our behalf. We have traded plus-$60-billion for minus $54-…
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June 10, 2009
Don't think that cap-and-trade legislation comes at a cost? Well, think again.
In a June 9 interview on Bloomberg as the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the Waxman-Markey bill, David Sokol, chairman of Berkshire…
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June 10, 2009
Many have claimed the federal government was playing fast and loose with the rules surrounding its takeover of General Motors and the circumstances surrounding the selection of which dealerships would remain open and those that wouldn’t. Fox News…
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June 9, 2009
Editor, Baltimore Sun
Dear Editor:
Bravo for British ambassador Nigel Sheinwald's case for freer trade ("The peril of protectionism," June 8).
One clarification, though: he says that "our globalized economy has not…
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June 8, 2009
“Evil despots.”
Neil Cavuto thinks Obama’s czars should be labeled what they really are: “evil despots accountable to no one.”
The host of “Cavuto on FOX” heaped this and other insults onto Obama’s czars…
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June 8, 2009
It’s small wonder the fawning media continue to note how “confident” and “cool” the new president is in office. The Sun King has assumed the throne and found it to his liking. Barack “L’État c’est Moi” Obama is a company man in a company town –…
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June 5, 2009
Following a report on the rise in bankruptcies due to medical bills, “The Early Show” offered the Obama administration more free advertising for its health care agenda.
Anchor Harry Smith interviewed controversial Health and Human services…
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June 5, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Floyd Norris wisely warns against the unintended consequences of tax policy - in this case, a one-time tax break on overseas profits…
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June 4, 2009
Once again, a widely publicized tragedy is being blamed on man-caused global warming.
Warming alarmists have often bemoaned air travel saying it increases the threat of global warming, but this time they’re blaming the phenomenon for…
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June 3, 2009
The government is continuing to encroach on freedoms more and more in the name of climate change. Case in point: An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy “green”…
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June 3, 2009
In January, President Obama said that $787 billion stimulus package was desperately necessary to prevent more Americans from losing their jobs.
“For every day we wait or point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs,”…
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June 3, 2009
If you “bitched about pundits shaping the debate and, possibly, the election outcomes” in 2008, then Jack Cafferty has the following message for you: “go to hell.”
It’s par for the course as the CNN anchor serves as judge, jury and…
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June 3, 2009
Obama, Media Likely Wrong on 2009 Job Figures ... By May Finding the 'glass half full,' nets and newspapers find good news about job loss, ignore failure of stimulus to halt…
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June 3, 2009
In a time when fiscal responsibility from politicians seems to be a thing of the past, NBC’s “Today Show” and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” criticized California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his proposed budget cuts in his effort…
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June 3, 2009
If we would just inflate our tires and get regular tune-ups, drilling for oil would be unnecessary.
Now one of the many czars of the Oz-bama Regime has blithely suggested we should all be ordered to paint the roofs of our houses white…
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June 3, 2009
Not too long ago, global warming activism in the U.S. Capitol made some sort of carbon cap-and-trade legislation seem like a near certainty. But the tide may be turning.
According to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking…
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June 2, 2009
Is regulating greenhouse gases a necessary means to stop so-called manmade global warming? Or is it an effort by the government to exert more control over Americans’ day-to-day lives?
According to Rep. James…
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June 2, 2009
The world is about to end, or at least that’s according to ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The June 2 segment promoted a new special called “Earth 2100.” The program follows Lucy, a girl born in 2009, and her dramatic story about how if…
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