While broadcast reporters worried about dangers of foreign firms running American ports, they paid no attention to Chavez and his latest threats to cut off oil to the United States.

As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controlled by Venezuela's anti-American despot Hugo Chavez has become a real danger. But it's a danger the networks barely even mention.

More than 4.6 million jobs have been added since May 2003 -- 31 straight months of positive job growth. Unemployment dropped down to 4.9 percent, lower than the average of all three recent decades.

With the president's upcoming State of the Union address on Jan. 31, the economy will come under fresh scrutiny, so it is essential to separate the facts from the media spin.

The Swiss are much smarter than American pharmaceutical firms.

It's not the case any more that there are just large international firms doing this. Iraqi firms are making the money.