The media did it back in 2001 when President George W. Bush was fighting a recession. They’re doing it again today. Whenever the press discusses what government can do to jumpstart a failing economy, reporters often downplay tax cuts and praise…
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February 4, 2009
Once newspapers were the answer to the riddle: “What is black and white and read all over?” They’re no longer just black and white, but they are red all over. Red ink spills off nearly every page onto balance sheets across America.
The…
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February 4, 2009
In an interview in the January issue of Esquire, super tough guy and Cleveland Brown of all Cleveland Browns, Jim Brown said: “A liberal is arrogant enough to think he can do you a half-***ed favor. He is superior enough to think he can give you…
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February 3, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
The title of Frank Rich's column Feb. 1 proclaims that "Herbert Hoover Lives." Indeed he does. But contrary to Mr. Rich's argument,…
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February 3, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Because Frank Rich sensibly claims that "the job growth the Bush administration kept bragging about ('52 straight months!') was a…
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February 3, 2009
Remember the outrage when it was discovered former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain – how he spent over a $1 million to redecorate his office, as meticulously itemized by CNBC correspondent Charlie Gasparino for The Daily Beast?
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February 2, 2009
ABC’s “World News Sunday” found a new twist on the obesity crisis Feb. 1. Apparently, recession can “lead to a spike in obesity.”
Anchor Dan Harris introduced the “counterintuitive” report saying, “Americans are cutting back on food…
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February 2, 2009
31 January 2009
Adam Davidson, National Public Radio
Dear Adam:
I enjoyed your and Alex Blumberg's Jan. 29 report on the resurgence of Keynesian economics. In your list of anti-Keynesian schools of thought, though, you…
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February 2, 2009
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, people might want to be wary of the economic stimulus package.
Four analysts were arguing on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls…
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January 30, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Terence M. O'Sullivan alleges that "voluminous research" shows that legislatively mandated higher construction wages do not…
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January 30, 2009
Despite what the news media keep saying, capitalism and deregulation were not the causes of the financial meltdown.
Instead, BB&T CEO John Allison pointed the finger at government creations like the Securities and Exchange Commission (…
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January 30, 2009
Being an outspoken conservative in the media has proven dicey lately, as the Democrat-controlled Congress and White House are working toward seeing an $819 billion stimulus bill signed into law.
According to Ann Coulter, there has been…
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January 30, 2009
Editor, The Washington Times
Dear Editor:
Citibank will now reject delivery of a corporate jet. As you report, "Pressure to cancel the deal came from the Obama administration and amid a chorus of concerns from politicians who…
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January 29, 2009
It’s usually an event reserved for dignitaries and celebrities held in high esteem, but the City of Las Vegas is setting a new precedent … this time in the name of global warming awareness.
At the behest of a global warming…
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January 29, 2009
Between Election 2008 and the early moments of the Obama administration, it was assumed a new New Deal was coming complete with massive infrastructure projects. But, now the stimulus package is so full of other things even some of the most…
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January 27, 2009
In business there is a crime called “bait and switch.” It refers to the practice of advertising something that a lot of people want, in order to lure them to a store or showroom under fraudulent premise, with no intent whatsoever of providing…
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January 27, 2009
Is the new Obama administration taking cues from the Bush administration to get Congress to act? It certainly seemed that way to, South Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Jim DeMint.
DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage…
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January 27, 2009
Here we go again. Whether he’s promoting his Live Earth concert or out on the stump for some new global warming awareness program, when Al Gore speaks, the media drop everything and listen.
“Al Gore, sexy man. The thinking girl's…
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January 27, 2009
Gore
to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington
Will the former vice president be well received by the press on
eve of testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations committee…
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January 27, 2009
It’s a question the press didn’t dare ask, but a second-term Minnesota Republican congresswoman wasn’t afraid.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, told participants in a Jan. 26 Americans for Prosperity teleconference that at President Barack Obama’s…
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