Browsing the archives for the The Media category
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Proving that not everything gets better with age—especially the U.S. Post Office—consider this article from 1985… James Bovard, “The Last Dinosaur: The U.S. Postal Service” http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa047.html Then compare it to this article from 2010… Doug Bandow, “Postal Bankruptcy” http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/postal-bankruptcy And then try to figure out what has changed since 1985. Consider [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Presidential approval ratings since 1950:[1] George W. Bush…was rated a HIGH of 90% and a LOW of 29%. George H. W. Bush…was rated a HIGH of 89% and a LOW of 29%. Harry S Truman…was rated a HIGH of 87% and a LOW of 23%. John F. Kennedy…was rated [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn The media has enjoyed a lengthy love affair with the conflicting theories of global warming and global cooling. NOTE: A few of the headlines even manage to contradict the “conventional wisdom” of the times. FROM THE 1860’s TO 1920’s…GLOBAL COOLING?
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Although going “green” has been extremely lucrative for Al Gore as he is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire”, [1] he is better known for his Nobel prize-winning documentary (An Inconvenient Truth, 2007) [2] advancing the theory of global warming. The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory embraced [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn The U.S. Congress bears sole responsibility for artificially increasing oil prices since it is OUR oil that remains largely untapped beneath OUR deserts, OUR forests, OUR swamps and OUR oceans. These politicians that we have freely elected…and re-elected…and then re-elected [sigh] are preventing OUR oil from being drilled by [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Judge for yourself how successfully the planks of the Communist Party platform have been grafted into the tree of American liberty. On 10 January 1963, the following was entered into the Congressional record [1] by U.S. Representative Albert Sydney Herlong, Jr. (1909-1995) [D-FL] who served in Congress from 1949 to [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER (classic version) Once upon a time, there was an ant and a grasshopper that lived in a beautiful meadow. The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thought the [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 8 October 2010 and has been awarded 90 times to 120 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009—97 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations. In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel [...]
compiled and edited by Daniel Hagadorn “If you have a long enough lever, you can move the world.” –Archimedes (c.287 BC – c.212 BC) One of the most powerful “levers” of our modern era is the influence currently wielded by the mainstream media, whose political bias will be examined below…[1]
