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The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger : With fakery everywhere?some of it amusing, some of it not funny?people's ability to know where things fall on the spectrum between fact and falsity becomes so compromised that they retreat into a shell of cynicism about everything. And there is a lot to process: 9/11 deniers, Iranian Holocaust deniers, Obama birthers. Lily Tomlin provided the epigraph for our age: "I try to be cynical, but it's hard to keep up." ... Now, with more people decked out in protective coats of cynicism, it's gotten harder for the pols to sell their grand schemes. Ask President Obama. Mr. Obama's health-care initiative has been a hard sell with the public. He pitched it before a joint session of... [read full story]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/27/09 -- The following corrects and replaces the release for Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. (TSX: JIN) sent on Nov. 17, 2009 at 8:30 am ET. There have been changes made to the first,...
A headline in this afternoon's Wall Street Journal ("Obama Calls for Probe of White House Crashers") describes the president's anxiety over his personal security.As for the economic security of millions of Americans -- who are...
By DUANE MARSTELLER - dmarsteller@bradenton.com MANATEE — As the Chinese drywall saga unfolded during the past year, one figure has been widely and often repeated: 100,000. Multiple media outlets covering the drywall story —...
Share and save this post: When Karl Rove helped run the White House, he accepted certain beliefs as truths. And now that Karl Rove is outside the White House, he believes he's entitled to complain about deficits from his perch...
