As a Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) presidency becomes more of a possibility, the reality of his potential presidency becomes an issue for Americans to contemplate.
Although much of the coverage of the presidential election has…
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March 27, 2008
American Airlines canceled more than 300 flights March 26 as older planes were voluntarily re-inspected to make sure they met safety standards set by the Federal Aviation Administration. But the cancellations had CNN’s…
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March 27, 2008
Even studies deemed suitable for publication in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine can’t earn the respect of the media when they see an opportunity to bash “big tobacco.”
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March 27, 2008
The sympathetic, struggling cardholder. The anti-credit card company activist. The heartless business and the beleaguered industry representative. Check, check and check – but “Good Morning America’s” March 27 story…
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March 27, 2008
To demonstrate that global warming is supposedly causing the collapse of nature, the March 26 “CBS Evening News” featured eroding coastlines causing people to lose homes in England as evidence.
“Much of the effects of climate…
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March 27, 2008
Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times, is scared for his pension.
Raines wrote in the April 2008 Condé Nast Portfolio that he fears the “pirate” Rupert…
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March 26, 2008
To know where you’re going, it’s probably a good idea to know how you got to where you are.
NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell featured both Democratic…
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March 26, 2008
Regardless of whether global warming is a threat, one Washington insider predicts a carbon cap-and-trade system is inevitable because all three remaining presidential candidates support it.
Fred Krupp, the president of the…
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March 26, 2008
What is it about government mandates that curse innovation to failure?
Ethanol turned out to be more environmentally harmful than the fossil fuels it was replacing via federal mandate. Now scientists understand the “green”…
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March 26, 2008
Too Little, Too Late - Media Discover Mercury in Fluorescent
Bulbs
First
it was ethanol a corny government mandate thats not all it
was cracked up to be. Now its light…
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March 26, 2008
Skyrocketing gasoline prices may be pushing the U.S. economy over the edge, but the oil-rich lords of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel don’t give a hoot.
Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president and…
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March 25, 2008
Almost every day, the network news breathlessly asks again: is the “housing crisis” over? Have gas prices topped out? Is the economy in recession? CBS and NBC took a downbeat approach to those questions March 24 and 25.
Existing…
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March 24, 2008
How much of what has happened in the housing market is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s fault?
Not much, according to CNBC “Closing Bell” host Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo…
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March 24, 2008
CNBC celebrity stock picker Jim Cramer has an affinity for making over-the-top statements. While guest hosting CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” March 24, he turned his critical sights from policy makers and corporate CEOs to…
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March 24, 2008
Finally, we get some clarity from CNBC’s Jim Cramer about his remarks concerning the Bear Stearns fallout.
Last week, after it was announced JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) was…
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March 24, 2008
ABC’s harmlessly named “profile” segment March 23 was, in essence, an attempt to discredit and bury the individual profiled – not too surprising, however, because he is a scientist who refuses to support wildly hyped global warming…
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March 24, 2008
As usual, Lenten season was time to cue up the media attacks on Christianity and faith.
One of the most offensive blows in the annual Easter faith-flagellation fest came from Comedy Central on a show called Root of All Evil. Comedian…
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March 22, 2008
It’s not a script for the next science-fiction thriller, but renowned British scientist James Lovelock is giving human civilization less than 32 years before all hell breaks loose because of the effects of global warming.
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March 21, 2008
Can’t afford that new home theater system? Bummed that you had to forego the Dungeness crab for imitation crab meat? Don’t call it “making responsible financial decisions.” Instead call it an economic “slump.”
That’s what…
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March 21, 2008
For its March 2008 issue, the business magazine Portfolio hit hard at 10 major companies “in a variety of industries, not just the traditional smokestack polluters,” complete with skulls and cross bones and exaggerated graphics of pollution…
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