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Lou Dobbs

2009-10-04T23:42:32Z

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'''Lou Dobbs''' (b. Childress, [[Texas]]; September 24, 1945 ) is an [[American]] [[journalist]] and [[columnist]]. He is the [[CNN]] anchor and managing editor for ''Lou Dobbs Tonight''. Dobbs was originally [[conservative]], but now he describes himself as an "independent populist" critic of the "excesses of [[capitalism]]." He has focused on [[immigration]] for years.

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Dobbs has won almost every award in journalism including an emmy and a peabody award,which were criticized as being "liberal" and "leftist slanted" by Conservapedia's article on "The Daily Show"<ref>http://conservapedia.com/The_Daily_Show</ref>. He's an independent populist and the leading media advocate for working men and women, their families, our middle class and the American way of life. <ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/ Lou Dobbs] CNN.
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'''University:''' BA Economics, [[Harvard University]] (1967).

==Political views==
Once a self-described "Lifelong [[Republican]]" and [[fiscal conservative]], Dobbs now considers himself an "[[independent]] [[populist]]" and criticizes what he sees as the "excesses of capitalism." [[Illegal immigration]] is one such excess that he scrutinizes on his television program. He is opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens and advocates enforcement of existing immigration laws, along with a tightening of border security. On trade Dobbs advocates protectionist restrictions in order to protect American industry, and maintain U.S. sovereignty. Positions that are not regularly covered on Dobb's show include a pro-choice stance on [[abortion]], an opposition to [[gun control]] measures, and support for the [[gay agenda]].

== Books ==

* ''Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas'' (2004).
* ''Space: The Next Business Frontier'' (2005).
* ''War on the Middle Class'' (2006). "The middle class is being picked apart and its future mortgaged for the benefit of a small group of powerful American interests," Dobbs says in this book.

Lou is married to Debi Lee Segura (a one-time CNN sports anchor, apparently of [[Mexican]] heritage{{fact}}). They have four children: Chance, Jason, Hilary and Heather. They reside on a 300-acre horse farm in Sussex County, New Jersey.

==See also==
*[[Anderson Cooper]]
*[[Larry King ]]
*[[Sean Hannity]]
*[[Conservative Links]]

== External links ==

*[http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/ Lou Dobbs Tonight]
*[http://www.nndb.com/people/234/000044102/ Lou Dobbs] NNDB.

== References ==

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Stephen Colbert

2009-10-04T23:34:53Z

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'''Stephen Colbert''' is a writer, comedian and actor. Colbert is a [[Catholic]], a Sunday school teacher<ref>http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/13/ask-tv-squad-stephen-colbert-teaches-sundayschool/</ref>, and a self-proclaimed [[Democrat]], however one of his political heroes is [[Richard Nixon]]<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/jon_stewart_stephen_colbert_americas_anchors/page/4 Rolling Stone Interview, Oct 31, 2006</ref>, as he claims he was the last 'liberal president'.

Colbert began his career at Comedy Central in the year 2000 with the show [[Strangers with Candy]], he later left to become a correspondent on [[The Daily Show|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]], where he began to build what would later be the character he would play on [[Colbert Report|The Colbert Report]]. He was well-regarded on the show, occasionally guest-hosting when Stewart had to be elsewhere.

For his work on The Daily Show, he won three [[Emmy Awards]] and two [[Peabody Awards]] along with the other writers.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170306/awards IMDB List of Stephen Colbert Awards </ref> <ref>http://128.192.29.189/news/pressrelease.asp?ID=151 List of 2007 Peabody Award Winners</ref>. These awards were criticized as being "liberal" and "leftist slanted" by Conservapedia's article on "The Daily Show"<ref>http://conservapedia.com/The_Daily_Show</ref>.

==The Colbert Report==
''Main article: [[Colbert Report|The Colbert Report]]''

In 2005, Colbert left "The Daily Show" to become the host of a spinoff, "The Colbert Report".

In the show, Colbert plays a satirical right-wing political talk show host, largely based on [[Bill O'Reilly]], who has a friendly rivalry with the show.

"The Colbert Report" has a very loyal following which the Colbert character often uses for his various pranks, for example, in every public vote for naming something, Colbert urges his fans to vote for him.

In his recurring segment "The Word," a parody of O'Reilly's "Talking Points," Colbert coined the word "truthiness" to refer to the quality possessed by statements which, though factually false, are repeated by supporters who feel in their hearts that they ''ought'' to be true, and regard it as quibbling to object to their falsehood.

Colbert has poked fun at [[Wikipedia]] and its apparent democratization of truth. He has coined the word "Wikiality" (as opposed to "reality,") and caused trouble for Wikipedia by suggesting that his listeners alter articles. In August of 2006, he encouraged users to state that the population of African [[elephants]] had tripled in the last decade. Colbert's point was that if enough people believe something, it becomes "the truth." Wikipedia responded by reverting and locking down the pages to prevent further vandalism.

Recently, Colbert had viewers write-in his name into a public vote done by [[NASA]] to name a new room addition to the [[International Space Station]]. Colbert's cult like followers won the contest for him with an astonishing 230,539 total votes, 40,000 more than NASA's choice of Serenity.

== See also ==

*[[The Daily Show]]
*[[Colbert Report|The Colbert Report]]

==References==
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Supply-side economics

2009-10-04T22:11:36Z

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'''Supply-side economics''' is a [[macroeconomics|macroeconomic]] concept developed in the 1970's as a counter to the dominant Keynesian macroeconomic theory during the years of [[stagflation]]. Before the early 1980's Keynesian views predominated.

Economist [[John Maynard Keynes]] believed that "demand creates supply" (see [[Law of supply and demand]]). This concept drove many of the ideas behind the recovery from the Great Depression. Government played a role in subsidizing individuals by giving them jobs and therefore an income to have to spend on goods. This "demand-side" theory posited that demand would create supply, and feedback to in turn create more demand.

Supply-side theory is based on Say's law, which, paraphrased, states that supply creates its own demand. A simplified version of these ideas were taken up as a popular political movement during the 1980 election campaign, with [[Ronald Reagan]] proposing a modified policy of supply-side economics (although [[liberals]] disparagingly{{fact}} used the term "trickle-down" economics). <ref>[http://www.investopedia.com/articles/05/011805.asp Understanding Supply-Side Economics], David Harper </ref> The decreased regulation begun in the late 1970s, together with lower marginal tax rates would provide enough savings and investment to pool new capital and drive economic growth. Manufacturers for example, would hire more people, produce more, and create more demand and economic activity. The idea gained wide popular support, and became known as "Reaganomics".

Most criticism came from the Left, but some on the Right was skeptical as well. [[George H.W. Bush]] during a campaign debate famously referred to it as "[[voodoo economics]]", due to the discarding of [[New Deal]] orthodoxy. On the Left, it was seen as threat to the [[welfare state]] with the loss of federal revenues in tax cuts that had funded the failed [[War on Poverty]] programs for more than a decade.

One key aspect of the program in 1982 was tax cuts for Research and Development (R&D) in high technology firms intended to make United States more competitive with Japanese electronics manufacturers which had dominated the industry since the late 1960s. Liberals were critical of the idea, claiming "tax cuts for business" only benefited "the rich"; however, the "trickle down effect" became a flood of prosperity in high tech industries by the mid to late 1990s. However, many of the high tech industries went bankrupt in the early 2000's<ref>http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6278387-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd</ref>, leading the United States into a multi-year recession.

Murray Rothbard wrote:
:Specifically, Reagan called for a massive cut in government spending, an even more drastic cut in taxation (particularly the income tax), a balanced budget by 1984 (that wild-spender, Jimmy Carter you see, had raised the budget deficit to $74 billion a year, and this had to be eliminated), and a return to the gold standard, where money is supplied by the market rather than by government. In addition to a call for free markets domestically, Reagan affirmed his deep commitment to freedom of international trade. [http://www.mises.org/story/1544]

==See also==
*[[Laffer curve]]

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.mises.org/story/1544 The Myths of Reaganomics], by Murray N. Rothbard
*[http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ZQm_5SG3WwQJ:www.davidsmick.com/WSJ070881.pdf+%22Reaganomics%22+includes+the+idea+of+tax+cuts&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a What Reaganomics Is All About]
*http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/k/keynes/john_maynard/k44g/
*[http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=15&articleID=89/ "My Time with Supply-Side Economics"], by Paul Craig Roberts
*[http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=20&articleID=231/ "What Really Happened in 1981"], by Alan Reynolds and Paul Craig Roberts

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