Are Real Costs of Dealing With Climate Change Being Hidden From the Pu
As Al Gore and his band of not so merry global warming alarmists in buses and in the press try to convince Americans that they need to alter behaviors in order to save the planet, an inconvenient truth is being cynically withheld: this is going to cost a lot of money.Of course, one of the delicious hypocrisies is that these are the same people who decry the current economic boom as only helping…
DNC Attorneys Send Cease and Desist Letter to Free Republic
The Howard Dean-Kathleen Sebelius-Kansas tornado story has taken an interesting turn. Scott Johnson at Power Line reported Saturday that attorneys representing the Democratic National Committee have sent a cease and desist letter to Free Republic due to a post at its website concerning allegations made on the “Quinn & Rose” XM Satellite radio show Thursday (h/t Glenn Reynolds).Howard Dean…
House Speaker Pelosi Accused of Earmarking Funds for Husband’s Benef
If Democrats had accused former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) last year of earmarking funds that could help real estate investments owned by his wife, would the media have reported it?Probably on the front pages of every newspaper, and as the lead story of all of the evening news programs, right?Well, the Associated Press published a story Monday about current House Speaker Nancy…
Syrian Dictator Defends Pelosi Visit, Says Speaker 'Doing Her Job
Support for the actions of the Dem leadership continues to flow in from America's enemies around the world.Last week, Al Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahri, said a Dem-sponsored bill calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq was proof of America's defeat.Now the leader of Syria's thugocracy has weighed in, defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) against criticism of her recent tête-à-tête with…
Shocking Front-Page Washington Post Headline: ‘Democrats’ Momentum
What’s going on at the Washington Post? After recent editorials condemning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) trip to Syria, a good job covering the conviction of Harold Ford, Jr.’s (D-Tennessee) uncle, and a David Broder column harshly critical of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), the Post published a front-page story Saturday declaring the Democrats’ domestic agenda is…
Washington Post Again Critical of Speaker Pelosi: ‘No Results in Dam
For at least the second time this month, the Washington Post went after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) for meeting with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. For those that have forgotten, the Post was harshly critical of the Speaker’s trip at the time, calling it “foolish” and “ludicrous.”On Friday, the Post editorial staff, in a piece entitled “No Results in Damascus,” chronicled what’s…
Senate Democrats Send Letter to WaPo Contesting Broder’s Column Abou
Better secure your computer from all combustibles, potables, and sharp objects, sports fans, for the Washington Post published a Letter to the Editor on Friday that is guaranteed to elicit uncontrollable fits of laughter.Are you ready? Good.In response to David Broder’s Thursday column about the horrible job Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is doing as Majority Leader – a sentiment likely an…
Paul Begala Calls WaPo's Liberal Broder a 'Venomous' 'Gasbag
One of the most marvelous aspects of today’s liberal media is how members of “the club” better not say or write anything bad about another member or risk excommunication.Such is clearly the mantra of CNN’s Paul Begala, who published a scathing rebuke of the Washington Post’s David Broder on Thursday. In it, he referred to the clearly left-of-center columnist as “a gasbag,” “the Hindenburg of…
Burns of NYT: Insurgents Know U.S. Politics Moving in Direction Favora
Does it give the Dem leaders of Congress pause to realize that the enemies of the United States in Iraq, the people killing our troops, are banking on their political success? Reid and Pelosi might be tempted to dismiss this as the raving of a right-wing blogger. They shouldn't. It is in fact the considered view of someone they surely see as a respected, nay, an authoritative source: no less…
AP Reporter Fails to Describe Constitutional Objection to DC Congressi
In his report last Thursday (HT Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em) on Congress's passage of a bill that would grant congressional representation for the District of Columbia, Associated Press writer Jim Abrams opened with nearly celebratory language. He also noted the existence of a constitutional objection to the law but failed to explain how ironclad that objection most likely is:The people of the…
