Putting a Price on Life: From 9/11 to BP Oil Spill and Boston Marathon
November 6th, 2025 10:07 AM
“But people will die!” That’s what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn’t cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: “We all are going to die.” The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine said her “cruelty and sarcasm might cost her her…
CBS Fawns Over Pay Czar Feinberg: He Speaks With 'Moral Authority' and
June 21st, 2010 5:20 PM
On the June 20th edition of Sunday Morning, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger conducted a glowing interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, lauding him as someone who speaks with "moral authority" and who has "become an expert assessor of the value of life itself." Feinberg, who will now be in charge of distributing the $20 billion BP has pledged for the oil spill, previously worked with President…
Obama Escalates Feud: Administration Attempts to Exclude Fox News from
October 22nd, 2009 9:09 PM
Just when you thought the White House couldn't possibly do anything to make their bizarre feud with the Fox News Channel an even larger spectacle - the administration manages to take it to another level. Over the past two weeks, three White House officials have publicly criticized the Fox News Channel by denigrating its status as a news outlet - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn,…
