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Medicare Proposal Could be a Real Killer, my Forbes.com piece

August 26, 2010 11:27 AM EST

Medicare is speeding toward insolvency , and only major fundamental changes can save it. But beware the "tweakers" - those who say that little things can add up to a lot. Usually what they're pushing is of little benefit to...
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WHO "ends" pandemic that never was, my Philly Inquirer piece

August 20, 2010 10:08 AM EST

Hallelujah, the disaster has been averted! The World Health Organization last week declared the H1N1 swine flu pandemic over. Except for one little thing: It never happened. That is, as I write in today's Philly Inquirer, the WHO had no...
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"A license to kill," my NYPost piece on "Toyota Defense"

August 10, 2010 10:23 AM EST

The "Toyota defense" just sprung a killer from prison. Ironically, it did so just days after a whistleblower revealed that the government is sitting on powerful evidence undercutting the whole "the throttle made me do it" excuse.Javis Adams Jr. As...
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Mike on Neil Cavuto on Toyota tonight

August 5, 2010 11:40 AM EST

I'm scheduled to be the lead guest on Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel at 6pm tonight. Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum . . . Subject: The news that NHTSA is withholding exculpatory evidence regarding "alleged death" Toyota sudden acceleration...
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A tort reform advocate's dream, my article in Forbes.com

July 29, 2010 09:33 AM EST

It's a tort reform advocate's dream - meaning a defendant's worst nightmare. As I write in my Forbes.com article "California Trial Lawyers Find A Geezer Goldmine," the class action suit was based entirely on wording so tortuous that the nine...
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The phony "Toyota deaths database." My article in Forbes magazine

July 21, 2010 11:23 AM EST

In the Toyota witch hunt, nothing has been more damning than those deaths we're told Toyota sudden acceleration "allegedly caused" or, depending on whom you read, DID cause. As I note in my just-published Forbes magazine article, "93 and Counting,"...
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Mike Fumento

Recent Articles

New Medicare Proposal Could Be A Real Killer (Forbes Online, August 25, 2010)

A Requiem For The Phantom Pandemic (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2010)

A License To Kill: The 'Toyota defense' Springs a Manslaughter Convict (New York Post, August 10, 2010)

California Trial Lawyers Find A Geezer Goldmine: Skilled Healthcare Will Pay Now; the Elderly will Pay Later (Forbes Online, July 28, 2010)

93 and Counting: In their Toyota coverage reporters aren’t letting facts get in the way of a good story (Forbes Magazine, print edition, August 9, 2010)

Cellphone Fear in San Francisco (Forbes Online, July 6, 2010)

Cold-Blooded Murderers Can Still Make a Living (Forbes Online, June 11, 2010)

Purveying Pig Flu Panic at the Post (Canada Free Press, June 10, 2010)

The Phony Flu: Just the Facts, M’am; Just the Facts (Canada Free Press, June 7, 2010)

'Denialism' Has No Place in Scientific Debate (Letter published in Nature Medicine, May 2010)

False Prophets of Swine Flu Pandemic (New York Post, June 5, 2010)

No More Crying ’Spanish Flu’ (Forbes.com, May 20, 2010)

Why Do We Continue to Believe Bizarre Things? (AOL News, May 13, 2010)

Toyota's Indispensable New Role: Hobgoblin (Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 2010)

Drivers—Not Cars—Are The Greater Danger (Forbes Online, May 3, 2010)

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Blast from the Past

Read Michael Fumento's Afghanistan blog entries and view his Afghanistan photo set; also his Iraq blog entries and Fall 2006 photos, Spring 2006 photos and Spring 2005 photos detailing his activities in Iraq.

The New Band of Brothers (The Weekly Standard, June 19, 2006)

Return to Ramadi (The Weekly Standard, November 27, 2006)

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