Year: 2007

CSR and Business Profitability Don’t Mix, Says Borelli

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Prompted by the Wall Street Journal editorial about the departure of John Browne from the helm of BP (the company formerly known as British Petroleum), Senior Fellow Tom Borelli sent a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which they published ...

Global Warming Scaredy Cats II

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Scared of debate, scared of free speech, the global warming alarmists sure are scaredy cats. The Wall Street Journal has found another example: Al Gore apparently is afraid to face a genuinely challenging interviewer. The WSJ article begins: Will Al ...

Fact Checking FactCheck on Medicare Drug Negotiation Proposal

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FactCheck.org ran analysis of the Medicare prescription drug bill (the one that would permit Medicare to negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry) the other day that included some criticism of claims made by both parties. I asked the National Center���������s ...

Another AP Global Warming Blooper

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The Associated Press ran a story the other day claiming the U.S. once was bound by the Kyoto Treaty. Apparently, then-VP Al Gore signing the thing was all the AP needed to consider the treaty binding on the USA. Never ...

“American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” Reviewed

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Today's Examiner is carrying a review I wrote on former N.Y. Times reporter Chris Hedges' new book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." "American Fascists" was released by Free Press on January 9. If so inclined, ...

The Social Security Choice We Face

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Rep. Mike Pence has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying three important things about Social Security: 1) The White House must take tax increases off the table.Says Pence: "Such a tax increase would likely lift or eliminate the ...

I Think the Phrase You Are Looking for is “Double Standard”

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A Project 21 press release critical of Senator Barbara Boxer for implying that Secretary of State Condoleeze Rice is less qualified to handle Iraq policy because she is childless brought this comment by email from a corrspondent in the Bronx: ...

Wal-Mart Advised to Eliminate Appeasement Efforts

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Despite attending -- no joke -- a "light bulb summit," Wal-Mart is in the dark about the nature of its adversaries, says Senior Fellow Tom Borelli. Tom says Wal-Mart should stop trying to appease its enemies and go on the ...

Ethics Monitors in Conflict

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Interesting. It seems one ethics-monitoring group, the Legal and Policy Center, thinks Rep. Alan Mollohan's recusal from matters relating to the FBI while he remains under FBI investigation is inadequate, while another thinks it is hunky-dory. Rep. Mollohan was chosen ...

Project 21 Press Release: Senator Boxer’s Insult of Condoleezza Rice Condemned by Black Conservatives

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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21 for implying that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacks a proper perspective on the War on Terror in Iraq because she does not have ...

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