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On Meet the Press, Sanders Questions Why Cigarettes Remain Legal
On Meet the Press today, host Chuck Todd asked Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders what he thought of the idea of a consumption tax on soda. Sanders' answer, laded with his standard "massive wealthy inequality" argument, led Todd to believe that Sanders might also be against cigarette taxes.
No, those taxes are fine, Sanders said, but given that "cigarettes are causing cancer ...…
¿Qué se espera para Fusion tras el divorcio entre Univisión y Disney?
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Cuatro cosas a las cuales hay que estar pendientes.
Barely News: During Strike, an 'Odd' Increase in Vandalism At Verizon
In an utterly amazing and totally unexpected coincidence, Verizon is reporting that there has been a spike in vandalism and sabotage against its facilities since workers went on strike on April 13. (That's sarcasm, folks.) Paul J. Gough at the Pittsburgh Business Times has reported the company's claim that "there have been more than two dozen cases of what it called sabotage to cables and its…
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CBS Hails Obama Meeting Trans Person; Touts UK Travel Warning to NC
In lieu of a story on the 2016 election, Saturday's CBS Evening News featured a full report promoting the United Kingdom's travel advisory for Mississippi and North Carolina in light of religious liberty laws and gushing over President Barack Obama's town hall in London that featured "an emotional statement of personal identity" from a transgender person.
NYT Excuse for de Blasio-Led Campaign-Money Scheme? Law Is 'Obscure'
On Friday, the New York Daily News broke the news that "The head investigator for the state Board of Elections probed the 2014 fundraising efforts by (New York City) Mayor de Blasio and his team on behalf of the (New York State) Senate Democrats and found enough 'willful and flagrant' violations to warrant a criminal referral to the Manhattan DA’s office."
The story has attracted virtually no…
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Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Boosted on Telemundo
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A report on the violence that erupted at a Los Angeles school that provided a gender neutral bathroom dripped with bias as told by Telemundo, with the NBC-sister network featuring three officials, activists and students in favor, and only one opponent of the measure.
National Press Ignores Conservative Win in CA Donor Disclosure Trial
Americans For Prosperity won a huge court victory in California Thursday against that state's hard-left vindictive attorney general, Kamala Harris. Naturally, the national press is doing what it does when it doesn't want to cover a story: letting the Politico cover it and then pretending that this suffices.
Harris demanded that AFP provides the section of its not-for-profit Federal Form 990…
Press Blows Off 10-Solyndra $ Losses at Two Bankrupt Solar Companies
Solary energy company SunEdison filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. According to Reuters, the company's stock traded as high as $33.44 in July 2015. The stock closed at 22 cents today. Nine years ago, the company's market value was over $17 billion. According to the Associated Press, in July of last year it was still worth $10 billion.
The losses aren't limited to investors, however, a fact that…
Spanish Nets Minimize United Health Care's Pullout from Obamacare
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Earlier this week, United Healthcare made major news by announcing its intent to pull out of Obamacare. The story mostly went missing from all but one domestic Spanish-language network
Former WashPost Reporter Botches Coverage of Food Stamp 'Cuts'
As the Washington Free Beacon reported today (confirmed here in a chart published two weeks ago), the number of Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), traditionally known as Food Stamps, dropped below 45 million for the first time in almost five years (actually, 57 months) in January.
This is hardly cause for cheer, and does nothing to change the fact that in…
Cherry-Picking AP Pushes Positive NY Report, Ignores Dour Philly Data
On Sunday, I noted how the Associated Press wouldn't let the awful national news from the Federal Reserve on Industrial Production (second straight month of 0.6 percent contraction) stand alone without trying to offset it with phony evidence that U.S. manufacturing is showing "signs of stability." That "evidence" was primarily a positive manufacturing survey result from just one state: New York.…
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Cómo salir en la televisión en español: ser liberal sobre inmigración
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Parece que Univisión y Telemundo ponen en sus pantallas de televisión a cualquiera que ayude a impulsar el lado que ellos favorecen en la batalla ante la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Estados Unidos sobre los decretos o acciones ejecutivas del presidente Barack Obama acerca de la inmigración ilegal en el caso Texas vs. Estados Unidos.
Coincidence? Two Media Outlets Push Same Minimum Wage Advocates
On April 1, the Associated Press, in an online video which I covered in an April 2 NewsBusters post, interviewed three California business owners about the impact the state's just-passed $15-per-hour minimum wage would have on their businesses.
Though the video was headlined "Small Businesses React to Calif. Wage Increase," the owners interviewed weren't representative of the whole state in any…
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Matthews: Cruz Will Lose to ‘End Up on the Radio’ Fighting Mark Levin
Still recovering from a long night covering the New York primary results, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews resumed his recent streak of attacks on conservative talk radio host Mark Levin by suggesting on Wednesday that Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) will lose the GOP presidential nod so he can “end up on the radio duking it out with Mark Levin.”
