Newsweek’s Zakaria Slams Bush’s Attempts to Spread Democracy

Noel Sheppard
January 22nd, 2007 10:34 AM
There’s so much to find offensive about Fareed Zakaria’s article in this week’s Newsweek that it’s tough to know where to begin. Put simply, the piece stated rather strongly that President Bush is responsible for a declining rate of democracy around the world.Of course, one study that Zakaria cited to prove this premise “points out that 2006 was a bad year for liberty, under attack from creeping…
 

'Time' Trashed Flat Tax in 1996, Now Sees Flat Tax Boom In Eastern Eur

Rich Noyes
January 15th, 2007 3:08 PM
More than a decade after publisher Steve Forbes’s flat-tax platform temporarily vaulted him to the top of the pack of GOP presidential candidates, another prospective Republican presidential candidate is making tax simplification a centerpiece of his 2008 campaign. In announcing his exploratory committee, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback argued “We need a flat tax instead of the dreadful,…
 

NY Times on the 'Widening Witch Hunt' for Communist Informers in Polan

Clay Waters
January 10th, 2007 4:17 PM
 

CBS Plugs France's 3-Year Paid Maternity Leave, Subsidized Child Care

Brad Wilmouth
December 10th, 2006 10:00 AM
 

International French News Channel to Launch

Matthew Sheffield
November 13th, 2006 4:53 PM
Unsatisfied with American domination of the international news market, a French company is getting ready to launch a cable/satellite news channel.The staff of France 24 insists they'll be different than CNNi, BBC, and others, but in one respect they're perfectly similar. Just like their American counterparts, they pretend they're objective. They also appear to have trouble perceiving reality.…
 

CNN Host: International Poll Shows ‘How Low the United States Image

Scott Whitlock
November 3rd, 2006 5:49 PM
 

News Magazine's Recipe for Success: Dump Conservative Policies, Go Lef

Rich Noyes
October 26th, 2006 5:18 PM
 

Whaddaya Know: Friedman Says It's Not All Bush's Fault

Mark Finkelstein
October 11th, 2006 6:42 AM
 

BBC Calls It The 'So-Called War on Terror

Warner Todd Huston
September 30th, 2006 9:15 PM
 

Since When is a Riot Not Newsworthy

Brian C. Ledbetter
September 27th, 2006 11:27 AM
The Brussels Journal reported today (via FreeRepublic) that the third day of rioting in the Marollen district of Brussels commenced today, events which were sparked by the apparent murder of a Moroccan prisoner in a Brussels prison. What makes this story unusual is that so far, there has only been one report issued across the newswires (by Reuters) covering the events, and even though the…
 

How Many Divisions Does The NY Times Have? Grey Lady Demands Apology

Mark Finkelstein
September 16th, 2006 6:46 AM
 

MSNBC: Find W's Merkel Back Rub Under 'Grope' and 'Creepy

Mark Finkelstein
July 21st, 2006 4:09 PM
 

CNN.com Headline: 'Cussing, Spitting, Open-Mouth Chewing Bush

Bob Owens
July 21st, 2006 1:32 PM
They forgot to call him a "stinky poopyhead." Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee.
 

GMA's Vargas: When Will US Get on Euro/UN Bandwagon and Condemn Israel

Mark Finkelstein
July 21st, 2006 11:41 AM
Everyone knows that when it comes to winning wars and achieving peace, the model to follow is that laid out by France, other Europeans, and the UN.Elizabeth Vargas, steadfast Euro-UN-ophile, is savvy enough to recognize that the US needs to fall in line behind wiser heads and 'condemn or rebuke' Israel. Sadly, an obdurate Bush administration, in the person of spokesman Tony Snow, just wasn't…