Journalists have paraded lawyer Dickie Scruggs and his plaintiffs against insurance companies, calling a recent ruling a blow to hurricane victims. But those homeowners and the general audience are getting shortchanged by the medias omissions of fact.
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While Insurance Companies Targeted, Taxpayers Soaked [3]
Ted Frank, director of AEIs Liability Project, explains in a guest column how the government created the flood exclusion in private insurance policies and how taxpayers pay while the media blame business.
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G: USA Today, ABC notice lower gas prices [4]
B: What a difference a page makes in Wash. Post global warming coverage [4]
U: NBC leaves out bias of psychologist who blames advertising for obesity [4]
Fuel for Thought: Hurricane Season Below Average [5]
Networks love to link warmer oceans to global warming. But what happens
when oceans cool? A hint: not much media coverage.
What a Difference a Page Makes for Global Warming, Hurricanes [6]
Gov. Marc Racicot: Mississippi Attorney Generals Lawsuit Casts Shadow Over Katrina Recovery [8] (American Justice Partnership)
Democrats' Shameful Wal-Mart Demonization [9] (L.A. Times)
Double Dose of Kudlow
On Low-Tax Economy, Bush Has the Story Right [10](RCP)
25 years after Reagan tax cuts, economy still cruising along [11](NRO)
Cooler heads on global warming [12](Americas Future Foundation)
Citizens Taking Care of Citizens During Disasters [13]
The Heritage Foundation
Washington, D.C., August 24
Book Forum: Crisis of Abundance with author Arnold Kling [14]
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., August 29
Prospects for Reform of U.S. Agricultural
Policy With or without Doha
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., August 31
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