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Jeff Poor | May 28, 2009

The national unemployment rate is 8.9 percent and even higher in places like Cambridge, Md. So you might find it strange to see NBC advocating an expansion of legal migrant labor when so many Americans are struggling.

Nonetheless, former “…

Jeff Poor | May 27, 2009

How will President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor impact business? Or more importantly, is her nomination a sign of new rules for business in the United States?

Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto claims that’s…

BMI Staff | May 27, 2009

Networks Ignore Trillion Dollar Price Tag of Climate Cap Bill The media regularly hype the threat of global warming as well as proposed fixes for it, but when a cap-and-…

Lauren O'Reilly | May 27, 2009

If the government pays for your health care, should it tell you how to live and coerce you into eating healthy foods?

On May 23, panelists on “Forbes on Fox” discussed to what extent government should act as a food police by taxing…

Dan Gainor | May 27, 2009

When the Tax Day Tea Party protests happened on April 15, the idea of government spending us into bankruptcy seemed hard for some to grasp. A month-and-a-half later, they have a perfect example – California.

California is the Golden…

Dan Kennedy | May 27, 2009

I am having an evermore difficult time deciding if President Obama is a comedian pulling our collective leg, or he really has as much arrogant disdain for the people paying all the bills he’s printing as his silly statements suggest.

Matt Philbin | May 27, 2009

To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To a community organizer, every citizen looks like a victim entitled to someone else’s money.

The Obama campaign and administration has proved that again and again. But both the…

Jeff Poor | May 26, 2009

Earlier this year, proponents of the $787-billion stimulus bill opposed by most Republicans in Congress argued it was the only way to keep unemployment from exceeding double-digits and then some.

However, as Megyn Kelly, fill-in host…

Jeff Poor | May 26, 2009

On Memorial Day, when many Americans are returning from vacation destinations on the highways, CBS found a possible way for government to solve the gridlock on roads and in airports.

 

A May 25 “CBS Evening News” segment…

Jeff Poor | May 21, 2009

Californians just used the democratic process to vote down a series of proposals that would have raised taxes in certain areas. Proponents, namely Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, argued those increases would cure the state’s budget…

Jeff Poor | May 20, 2009

Although CNBC as network has been criticized for caving into a left-wing agenda, credit should be given where credit is due.

Following an interview with John Doerr, a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, CNBC’s…

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John Steele Gordon explains "Why Government Can't Run a Business" (May 20). I learned from the historian Burt Folsom one of…

BMI Staff | May 20, 2009

Broadcast Networks 'Hail' Obama Auto Fuel Efficiency Standards In the name of fuel efficiency, the networks favored federal intervention and ignored critics of Obamas new…

Dan Gainor | May 20, 2009

It’s 8 feet of automotive amusement wrapped around a rockin’ “3-cylinder, 1-liter gasoline powered engine.” OK, that’s only impressive if you like driving around in a golf-cart with sides or you find a riding mower cooler than a Maserati.…

Jeff Poor | May 20, 2009

After 120 days of the new presidency, the automobile industry provides some of the best evidence of an administration that favors the heavy hand of government meddling in the private sector. And as is the case with mostcoverage of President Obama…

Dan Kennedy | May 20, 2009

At this point the title ‘president’ seems so inadequate. Something grander and more glorious and imperial is needed. For want of any better idea, I’ve decided to use “The Great And Wonderful Ozbama.”

After all, just four months into…

Jeff Poor | May 20, 2009

MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews used personal attacks against a Congressman and accused the GOP of being anti-science on his May 20 program

In a segment about global warming, Matthews interviewed Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Rep.…

Jeff Poor | May 19, 2009

Unlike hosts at MSNBC and other liberal bastions of media, CNN’s Anderson Cooper claimed his use of the “teabagging” double entendre wasn’t intentional a little over a month after the fact.

 

Cooper, speaking at UCLA’s Daniel…

Jeff Poor | May 15, 2009

First it was CBS’s “60 Minutes” laying the groundwork to push a campaign against Chevron for an ill-advised lawsuit. Now The New York Times has picked up where they left off.

 

An article in the May 15 Times attacked Chevron for…

Julia A. Seymour | May 14, 2009

The day after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner requested more authority from Congress, on “Money for Breakfast” the Fox Business Network explored the possibility that such authority will come to include limiting executive compensation