Year: 2006

Major Health Care Legislation Overview

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Writing for the American Spectator, our David Hogberg is examining the major health care legislation introduced by Democrats during this Congressional session. David's first article in a two-part series examines Senator Russ Feingold's "State-Based Health Care Reform Act." ...

NJ’s Ex-Governor Says He Would Marry

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From Breitbart.com: Former Governor James McGreevey, who resigned after acknowledging a gay affair, said he would marry his male partner if New Jersey's state legislature adopts same-sex state marriage.'Marriage would offer the ability to bless our relationship in a committed ...

Al Gore Becomes a Foreign Lobbyist

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At least, according to the Irish Times, in a report in tomorrow's editions: The British government has hired former U.S. Vice President Al Gore as a lobbyist to convince the American public that action must be taken urgently to combat ...

Cutting Edge Reporting by Scientific American

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Presenting its readers with the very latest in scientific discovery and advancement, Scientific American displays this headline: "Potential Male Contraceptive Homes in on Testes." I guess the ear covers weren't working out ...

If Jeffrey Skilling Had Worked for the UN…

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...instead of for Enron, says Claudia Rosett, "he’d be looking forward to years of dining out with his pals and collecting his pension in comfort. Instead, found guilty of fraud and conspiracy, he’s facing a 24 year sentence." Read it ...

Help Journalists Be Honest

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Victor Davis Hanson explains the difference between a historian and a journalist: ...the verifiability of source material is what distinguishes history from hearsay -- and what distinguishes the genre from journalism... Journalists could change this with one little word: footnotes ...

Rumsfeld Worship: The Here-Today, Gone-Tomorrow Fickleness of the Drive-By Press

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Speaking of the New Republic, I noticed that Jonathan Chait's "Rummyache: The SECDEF Cult: A Tour Through the Hilarious Bygone World of Rumsfeld Worship" in the October 23 edition re-writes history a bit by implying that post 9/11 "Rumsfeld worship" ...

Doesn’t It Really Depend on Whether You are Buying or Selling?

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If the price of gas goes down, the media treats it as a good thing. When the price of housing goes down, the media treats it as a bad thing. But if a $3 gallon of gas is unaffordable, what ...

Partying with the Global Warming “Deniers”

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Al Gore says: 15 percent of people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat. They get together on Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers ...

Patti Davis, Limbaugh, Fox and Newsweek: Even Presidents’ Kids Need Editors

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Why does Newsweek insist on embarrassing itself with yet another lame essay on stem cells by Patti Davis? (You'd think the one I skewered here would have been enough for any self-respecting publication.) Forget about stem cells, Michael J. Fox ...

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