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A plan by the Federal Communications Commission to study how news organizations select stories has prompted about 10,000 people to sign a petition saying “no government monitors in newsrooms.” That’s according to the American Center for Law and Justice, which announced the petition Wednesday and said it reached that number within the first two hours. The agency announced a Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs last year, explaining that it wanted to understand the process of which stories are selected, station priorities, content production, populations served, perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the “critical...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash. That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market’s recent performance on top of a plot of its gyrations in 1928 and 1929. The picture isn’t pretty. And it’s not as easy as you might think to wriggle out from underneath the bearish significance of this chart. I should know, because I quoted a number of this chart’s skeptics in...

The Political Ruin that is Detroit In an era of wealth redistribution during which no criticism of the Administration is allowed and consistently collides with the guarding media panderers at the gate and in a time when the vast government bureaucracies have become engines of political annihilation, we suffer from a dearth of inspiration.   The ideologically rooted and self-serving social engineering experiment being foisted on the Nation through the IRS backdoor is a manipulation presided over by narrow minded exploiters incapable of grasping the negative unforeseen consequences of their policies in either the near term, or the long term. The explosion of...

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) primary challenger, Matt Bevin, is seeking to turn ObamaCare into a liability for the senator in a new radio ad launched Tuesday. The minute-long ad, which is running statewide in Kentucky for two weeks, charges that the Senate Republican leader is trying to fix the healthcare law, rather than repeal it. ADVERTISEMENT “ObamaCare is a disaster and it seems like Mitch and his cronies just don't get it. He now wants to fix ObamaCare,” Bevin says. He adds: “I disagree. ObamaCare needs to be repealed entirely.” Bevin goes on to name-check Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a...