The Necessity of an Impartial Press

What does it mean when a presidential campaign responds to hard, probing questions by cutting off the news organization that asked them? Can you trust candidates that do that? What are they hiding?

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Posted: 10/27/2008 | Comments (1)

This is What We Have Come to: Parsing the Word “Socialist.”

Some folks look for code words when they need to be looking at what candidates say. Are people calling Barack Obama a socialist because he is black--that's what the code word crowd is saying--or because when he speaks he sounds like a socialist?

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Posted: 10/23/2008 | Comments (8)

Spread the Wealth Around

Spread the wealth. It's a nice sentiment but it doesn't have a good reputation in capitalist societies where making money and building a business to support yourself and your family are good things. Folks on the other side of the ideological coin, however, like that idea a lot. Guess who else likes it.

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Posted: 10/13/2008 | Comments (0)