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     The 2008 campaign season features sharp disagreements among the leading presidential aspirants from both parties. Climate change, however, seems to be the exception that proves the rule, as all three frontrunners have embraced broadly…

Jeff Poor | March 5, 2008

     Science is a very powerful thing and it’s important to get it right.

 

     That’s the message Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy advisor for former British Prime Minister Margaret…

     The 2008 campaign season features sharp disagreements among the leading presidential aspirants from both parties. Climate change, however, seems to be the exception that proves the rule, as all three frontrunners have embraced broadly…

Nathan Burchfiel | March 5, 2008

     We've seen the media promote an R.V. indicator, a sweater indicator, a McDonald’s indicator and even a Starbucks indicator – all illustrations purporting to show an economy in peril. But CNN topped them all March 4 with the sad puppy…

Nathan Burchfiel | March 5, 2008

     Seven out of ten Americans believe prescription drugs developed over the past 20 years have made life better for their fellow Americans – in spite of journalists’ incessant attacks on pharmaceutical companies – a new…

Jeff Poor | March 5, 2008

     The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

     Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly…

Jeff Poor | March 4, 2008

     It turns out Al Gore was wrong. The scientists aren’t all in agreement on global warming; thus there is no “consensus.”

     Prominent hurricane forecaster Dr. William M. Gray, a professor at Colorado State University, told the…

Dan Gainor | March 3, 2008

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So much for that job requirement of balance and objectivity. When it came to global warming the media clearly left out dissent in favor of hype, cute penguins and disastrous…

Dan Gainor | March 3, 2008

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Global warming crusader Al Gore repeatedly claims the climate change "debate's over." It isn't, but the news media clearly agree with him. Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the…

Nathan Burchfiel | March 3, 2008

     A job shortage is sweeping across the nation, impoverishing minorities and plunging the economy into a recession along the way … according to The New York Times. It would be stunning if only the numbers backed it up.

     “As the…

Jeff Poor | February 29, 2008

     There’s nothing like a snide comment about President George W. Bush to make you feel better about paying more for food and energy.

     But you’d expect a higher of level of decorum from the media, especially when they operate…

Nathan Burchfiel | February 29, 2008

     When it comes to climate change the media often sound like a broken record – repeating gloomy predictions and calls for “action.”

     In fact, some reporters have even made it their “mission” to prove that global warming will have…

Julia A. Seymour | February 29, 2008

     Do you want to be “green cool”? It’ll cost you.

     Time magazine’s global warming advocacy journalist Bryan Walsh wrote about Joe Harberg, “an energy-efficiency guru” who runs a business auditing people’s energy use and selling…

Jeff Poor | February 29, 2008

     Need more evidence the old-time mainstream media are becoming relics?

 

     New York’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, told an audience the evolution of the modern…

Nathan Burchfiel | February 29, 2008

     Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

     Fresh off of Bianna Golodryga’s “tidbits of good news” on ABC’s “Good Morning America” February 27, NBC “Today” show contributor Erin Burnett found her own economic “silver lining” February 29.…

Jeff Poor | February 28, 2008

     One day, Jim Cramer is playing cheerleader for the U.S. economy, the next he is playing cheerleader for the Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

     Cramer, whose position on the American…

Jeff Poor | February 28, 2008

     Guess what – the sky isn’t falling, it’s just coming to a “near” fall.

     Over the past couple a months, the Associated Press has filed many reports about the prospects of recession and the effects that just the scare of a…

Jeff Poor | February 28, 2008

     Finally, the media are connecting the dots and realizing the push for alternative energy is taking a toll on the American economy.

 

     The Labor Department reported on February 20…

Nathan Burchfiel | February 28, 2008

     As the ceaseless recession talk continues, the language creep continues. Does it really matter whether it’s a “recession” or a “slowdown”?

     “It’s so much about semantics,” Burnett said on the February 28 NBC “Today” show when…