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    The Yes Men & Coal Cares to Peabody Energy and Coal Industry: Stop Killing Kids

    By William K. Wolfrum on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 4:38pm | Business, Media

    Since my previous post on the satirical Web site CoalCares.org, there have been several interesting developments. First off, the infamous Yes Men have been outed as the masterminds behind the site.

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    What's in a name?

    By William K. Wolfrum on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 5:54pm | Media

    Over the course of the day, I've come across three stories from major media outlets that shared two things in common. First, all three stories were trivial. Second, all three of these trivial stories were based on comments from anonymous sources.

    First up, Derek Thompson at the Atlantic:

    GOP Aide: Republicans Not 'Intellectually Honest' on Taxes

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    Raise The Capital Gains Tax

    By Michael Maiello on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:38pm | Politics

    Since the 1990s, both the Democrats and Republicans have agreed that capital gains taxes should be kept lower than income taxes in order to encourage investment and to support the economy.  It's really pure trickle down theory and further proof for the cynical that whenever the Democrats and Republicans agree on something, it's bad.  Setting capital gains and dividend taxes at the same level as income taxes is the subject of my column today in The Daily.

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    Are U.S. Veterans freeloaders? John Stossel will be the judge of that

    By William K. Wolfrum on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 4:28pm | Politics, Media

    If you need more proof that Libertarianism is an ideology of the soul-less, let John Stossel finish the deal:

    After my FBN show last week, where I let critics of my FREELOADERS show talk back, I got this e-mail:

    Dear Mr. Stossel,

    I am a veteran who is rated and compensated as 100% disabled.

    Do you, and Libertarians in general view me as a “freeloader;” and should I not be compensated according to your views of this situation?

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    CoalCares.org's clever hoax

    By William K. Wolfrum on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 1:06pm | Business, Media

    Head on over to CoalCares.org and take a look at the work they’ve done creating a spoof Web site for the purpose of creating discussion on the harm of coal plants as well as rising asthma rates.

    A snippet from the site:

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    Bluffing for Dummies: Republicans Hit Their Heads on the Debt Ceiling

    By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:33am | Politics

    Word to the wise: Don't bluff when your cards are on the table.

    (I learned that the hard way.)

    Apparently, House Speaker John Boehner has yet to learn the lesson. On Monday, he truculently pledged, "Without significant spending cuts and the way we spend Americans' money, there will be no debt limit increase."

    But there will be a debt limit increase. John Boehner knows it. Barack Obama knows it. Everybody knows it.

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