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- Opinion · Dec 2, 2009Washington, Home of Intellectual Hypocrisy
life, but he can’t figure out how to manage the interns or his checking account. The most famous story of an intellectual hypocrite getting his comeuppance is the tale … people who think they know how to run everything, when in reality they can barely run anything. (C) 2009 Tribune Media Services
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2009Turkeys of the Year
free and has stubbornly touted its job creation benefits for out-of-work Americans. Reality check? The Washington Examiner reports that more than 10 percent of the jobs the Obama
- Opinion · Nov 20, 2009Palinophobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later
sides are equally wrong (after all, the acolytes of the Doniger school openly reject reality more than any so-called creationist), I don’t think either position is laudable … running for one. But the Associated Press assigned 11 reporters to “fact-check” her book, while doing nothing like that to fact-check then-candidate Obama’s or current Senate
- Alexander's Column · Nov 19, 2009The BIGGEST LIE Yet
Obama’s Recovery Czar, Ed Pound, responded, “Who knows, man, who really knows?” Recovery reality check: Remember when Obama claimed, “This is our moment, this is our time to turn
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2009Mr. Boortz’s Opus: Why Talk Radio Really Matters
also lets his executive producer and his engineer-sidekick help to keep him in check by challenging him in a sort of freestyle banter. This formula has allowed Boortz … York Times-bestselling book about the “Fair Tax” was his magnum opus. But in reality, it may be the award he’s to receive itself that culminates his career
- Article · Oct 26, 2009Not Such Obscene Profits After All
immoral profits after all. The Associated Press, of all places, has the Fact Check : Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads … making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.” Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point
- Opinion · Oct 24, 2009Losing ‘Reality’
looking for a new career making license plates. The Heenes are not the only “reality” show boneheads in trouble with the law. Lisa deMoraes of The Washington Post reported that … more Charles Manson. Days after taping two episodes for VH1 in August, Jenkins checked into a luxury ocean-side hotel in San Diego with his wife, a gorgeous model
- Opinion · Oct 23, 2009The Bogus Death Statistic That Won’t Die
weak bones of these dubious death numbers. Where’s the White House health care “reality check” squad when you need it? COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM
- Alexander's Column · Oct 22, 2009The Rights and Obligations of Liberty
Other founder distrust for government is found in the Constitution’s separation of powers, checks and balances and the several anti-majoritarian provisions such as the Electoral College … will be.” But, ignorance is bliss -- at least until it runs head-on into reality, and reality is just around the corner. Samuel Adams assured us that, “No people will
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2009The Censorious Sound on the Left
ponder that there was no need to fact-check this, so obvious were the fabrications. Start with this reality: One could clearly dismiss these quotes as fabrications based … Rush Limbaugh, they just have no common sense. Fine. That’s where fact-checking comes in. A couple of minutes on the computer would have proven that these quotes were
- Opinion · Oct 9, 2009The Dawn of a New Era in Infotainment
spike in “acting out” by devastated viewers. These are just highlights from the fact-checking frenzy overtaking the news media in the wake of CNN’s report … Room,” asked, “How much truth is behind all the laughs? Stand by for our reality check.” “They essentially cast the leader of the free world as a do-nothing president
- Opinion · Sep 18, 2009U.N. Disgraces Itself Again; Obama Helps
accompanied by Hamas officials. Call it the Middle Eastern version of Card Check. Nor could they expect to hear a balanced presentation from the representatives of radical non-governmental organizations … Hamas in placing rocket launchers in civilian areas. But above all, the report turned reality on its head by conceiving of Israel, the target of 12,000 rockets fired directly
- Opinion · Sep 10, 2009Rep. Charles Rangel -- Sign of the Times
improperly listed his assets, as required by law, and failed to report additional checking accounts valued between $250,000 and $500,000 -- princely sums acquired on a congressional salary … ethical Congress ever.” Proclaiming ethical reform apparently means you have already enacted it. In reality, by her tolerance for the ethically challenged like Rangel, John Murtha (D-PA), and others
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2009Washington’s Lies
show much trust in the White House and Congress.” Let’s check out their past dishonesty. At its start, in 1966, Medicare cost $3 billion. The House Ways and Means … sentence: “That is the most you will ever pay.” Compare that to today’s reality, including Medicare, which is 7.65 cents on each dollar that you earn up to nearly
- Opinion · Sep 1, 2009Daughters under Siege
through their grace, or goodness, or intelligence - but through their sexual power. Combine this reality with the theme of my last two columns, which are about the entertainment industry … crossroads in our nation and the pawn being used by those who seek to check-mate the family - the sacred and basic building block of all civil societies
- Opinion · Aug 4, 2009Utopia Versus Freedom
been recognized for centuries by some, but many others have not yet faced that reality, even today. If you think government should “do something” about anything that ticks … coverage to “mental health”-- which is to say, giving shrinks and hypochondriacs a blank check drawn on the federal treasury. There are still some voices of sanity today, echoing what
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2009Help: They Are Talking About a New Stimulus!
marching out to repair roads, build bridges, and sing catchy folk songs, the reality is otherwise. Ninety billion dollars of the stimulus funds are allocated not to infrastructure … local revenues in the short run, then it provides no economic stimulus.” Transferring check writing from Trenton and Sacramento and Augusta to Washington, D.C., may ease state budget crises
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2009Thank You For Not Blackberrying
than a third of 5,300 workers polled recently by Yahoo “said they frequently checked e-mail in meetings.” Meanwhile, “the etiquette debate seems to be tilting in favor … Bluetooth shouters who make their way down the department store aisle, disconnected from any reality around them -- once these types take over the public arena, you can forget the little
- Alexander's Column · Apr 30, 2009The Peaceful Revolution’s First 100 Days
make violent revolution inevitable. To that end, there is some good news on the “checks and balances” front, though some may find this a bit disconcerting. There are now more … coincidental, not consequential. But I doubt it. As Americans begin to awaken to the reality of Obama’s Socialist agenda, it will be interesting to see how his next
- Opinion · Apr 17, 2009Magic Numbers in Politics
Words are not the only things that enable political rhetoric to magically transform reality. Numbers can be used just as creatively-- and many voters are even more gullible about statistics … crusade is to clamp down on small finance companies that provide “payday loans” and check-cashing services in many low-income neighborhoods where there are few banks. A common practice