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Matt Philbin | November 20, 2008

    Apparently unsatisfied with NBC’s current “Green Week” programming (150 hours between Nov. 16 – 22), Hollywood has been working on getting more climate change agitprop on the air.

 

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Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 19, 2008

Editor, The Wall Street Journal

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To the Editor:

G.M. CEO Rick Wagoner's case for a taxpayer handout to his firm is a lemon ("Why GM Deserves Support," Nov. 19). The bulk of…

BMI Staff | November 19, 2008
Networks Back Big Three Bailout Network journalists are rushing to promote a taxpayer bailout for American automakers without exploring one…
Dan Kennedy | November 19, 2008

     The news media have, for two weeks, endlessly expressed outrage at AIG’s spending several hundred thousand dollars on a sales conference held at a Phoenix resort – after getting federal bailout billions. The impression conveyed has been…

Jeff Poor | November 19, 2008

     At the time of the votes on the $700-billion bailout bill, which finally passed Oct. 4, there were dire warnings of calamity if the bill failed. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said martial law would have to be enacted to…

Dan Gainor | November 19, 2008

     When America battled for economic supremacy against Taiwan, Japan, Germany and others, many of us adopted a patriotic battle cry. “Buy American!” we exclaimed and many of us did.

     In 2008 we are still buying American, but that…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 18, 2008

Editor, Washington Post

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Washington, DC 20071

Dear Editor:

Martin Feldstein and George Will each offer excellent reasons for opposing a bailout of Detroit automakers (Opinion, Nov. 18). Here's…

Matt Philbin | November 18, 2008

     Gas prices have been in freefall lately, offering a little solace to nervous consumers. But as the Business & Media Institute has documented, many in the media seem to pine for last summer’s “pain at the pump” stories…

Lauren O'Reilly | November 18, 2008

     Before the government decides to use $25 billion or more taxpayer dollars to rescue General Motors it would be helpful to understand how the company got into its financial predicament.

 

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Jeff Poor | November 18, 2008

It seems that William Ayers, President-elect Barack Obama’s associate and a former Weather Underground terrorist, awakened from his Owellian nightmare to give us a vision for public education he called “social justice.”

     In an…

Jeff Poor | November 17, 2008

     Perhaps Newton’s Third Law applies to economics also: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

 

     That’s the way it seemed when Cameron Hanover’s Peter Beutel…

Jeff Poor | November 17, 2008

     Although investigators have determined the fires plaguing the areas around Santa Barbara and Montecito, Calif. were “human caused,” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a different idea of what is behind the lengthy wildfire season.…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 17, 2008

Editor, The Wall Street Journal

200 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10281

To the Editor:

Douglas Ayer correctly notes that "Populist anti-intellectualism has always played a part in conservative politics" (Letters,…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 17, 2008

Editor, Washington Post

1150 15th St., NW

Washington, DC 20071

Dear Editor:

Countless flaws infect the arguments – offered in your pages today by both Jeffrey Sachs and Robert Samuelson – for a…

Jeff Poor | November 17, 2008

      Victoria’s Secret, the well-known lingerie retailer, is being sued by a woman who claims the company’s bra had formaldehyde in it and made her “utterly sick.”

 

     ABC’s “Good…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | November 14, 2008

Editor, The Wall Street Journal

200 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10281

To the Editor:

Brian Riedl is correct: economic-stimulus packages are economic snake oil ("Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail," Nov. 14). Because…

Jeff Poor | November 14, 2008

     Gas prices are up: that’s bad. Gas prices are down: that’s even worse. You can’t win either way.

 

     After a series of gas price hardship segments over the…

Erin Brown | November 14, 2008

The big television networks and national newspapers failed to cover an outrageous assault on a Michigan church, during which homosexuals, enraged about the voter rejection of same-sex marriage in three states, shouted obscenities and necked with…

Jeff Poor | November 13, 2008

     Who wants higher taxes? Vice president-elect Joe Biden calls paying tax “patriotic.” Add New York Times resident wizard-of-smart and columnist Thomas Friedman to that list.

     Friedman appeared on CNBC’s Nov. 13 “Squawk on the…

Paul Detrick | November 13, 2008

     Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced Nov. 12 that he would be redirecting the $700 billion bailout to focus on propping up financial institutions instead of buying troubled mortgage assets, which was the original…