President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

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The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

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President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

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The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.