With President George W. Bush on his way out of office and a Democratic president soon be sworn in, some have wondered where the outspoken voices on the left would direct their anger. Try core American values – like free-…
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With the holiday coming, there is a big reason to give thanks after all. Consumers can celebrate that gas has dropped below $2 for the first time in years. That marks a fall of more than 50 percent since July 15 when gas…
‘Tis the season for global warming alarmism on NBC. It is “green” week after all.
Just like last year, “Today” hosts have ironically traveled to the “Ends of the Earth,”…
Editor, The New York Times
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Carole Artigiani asserts that "The wide involvement of youths in the Obama campaign suggests a renewed understanding of the role of…
With an increased Democratic majority in Congress and a Democratic president set to be sworn in Jan. 20, policy analysts expect the government will try to steer out of the pending financial crisis through regulation.
…As it turns out, swaying from conservative principles doesn’t always pay off for a Republican presidential candidate. Sen. John McCain learned that lesson that hard way.
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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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Martin Feldstein and George Will each offer excellent reasons for opposing a bailout of Detroit automakers (Opinion, Nov. 18). Here's…
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…
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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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…
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…
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.…
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Douglas Ayer correctly notes that "Populist anti-intellectualism has always played a part in conservative politics" (Letters,…
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Dear Editor:
Countless flaws infect the arguments – offered in your pages today by both Jeffrey Sachs and Robert Samuelson – for a…