How Iran Steals Its Citizens' Wealth to Finance Terror

October 25th, 2024 5:24 PM

The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, just published, for 2024, its annual Economic Freedom of the World Report. There are many ideas about what freedom means. Economic freedom, which the Fraser Institute focuses on, is of key and central importance. It is about the extent to which individuals have control of their economic life.

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SNL: 'Real American Dream' Is For Immigrants To Say 'White Guys Only'

October 22nd, 2024 1:50 PM

During the most recent episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, new cast member Emil Wakim claimed that “the real American dream” is to be the non-white immigrant who eventually becomes a Republican and says to others, “No, sorry, sorry, white guys only.” Later in his address, Wakim would also attack critics of people like Gays for Gaza, telling them that “If you want them to be gay,…

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MSNBC: 'Haphazard' Killing Of October 7 Architect 'Raises Questions'

October 18th, 2024 3:25 PM

If there was any media personality liable to say something mind-numbingly dumb after Israel killed Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar on Friday, it was MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin, and lo and behold, he delivered on Alex Wagner Tonight. According to Mohyeldin and the eponymous host, the fact that Sinwar’s death was a happy accident “raises questions” as to just what Israel…

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Woodward Claims Saying Trump Is Unfit For Office Is 'Journalism'

October 18th, 2024 10:00 AM

Bob Woodward took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he declared that it is “journalism” and not opinion to declare that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.

The Corruption of CBS And The NY Times: Who Runs These 'News' Outlets?

October 12th, 2024 4:00 PM

So in one seemingly harmless, routine moment the problem with today’s mainstream media is revealed.  

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Biden FINALLY Visits WH Briefing, Gets Lobbed Softballs by Press Corps

October 4th, 2024 6:03 PM

On Friday, President Biden made his first appearance in the White House Briefing Room with only three and a half months left in office after years of calls from reporters across the political spectrum. Sure, he only took questions for just over eight minutes, but the press corps made sure to throw this unique opportunity away with a combination of open-ended foreign policy queries and…

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Amanpour Omits Key Details On Ceasefire Proposal As Iran Bombs Israel

October 1st, 2024 2:45 PM

Foreign policy reporting can be tricky. You have to explain what bad people think in an honest way without coming across like you endorse their position. Christiane Amanpour failed in this on Tuesday’s CNN News Central as she omitted key facts related to a recent ceasefire proposal that she claimed could have prevented Iran’s salvo of 180 ballistic missiles on Israel.

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Capehart Gets Triggered At Idea Biden's Russia Record Isn't Great

September 28th, 2024 9:58 AM

Washington Post associate editor and PBS News Hour talking head Jonathan Capehart was triggered on Friday when the American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka argued that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on Russia isn’t the greatest. While he found Pletka’s arguments to be “incredibly insulting,” he never actually debunked them.

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Kimmel Blames Trump For Iranian Threats To Assassinate Him

September 26th, 2024 10:00 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted to Donald Trump warning Iran that he would “blow it to smithereens” if it harmed him or any other presidential candidate by claiming Trump cannot actually do that because he withdrew from the nuclear deal as president.

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After 11 Months Of Rocket Fire, Stewart Asks 'What Did Lebanon Do?'

September 24th, 2024 12:55 PM

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart is not a military or foreign policy genius, but he does play on TV. After 11 months of rocket fire from Hezbollah that has seen 60,000 Israelis become refugees in their own country, Israel has started to hit Hezbollah hard in recent days, leading Stewart to ask, “What did Lebanon do?” on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show.

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NABJ Skips Fact-Checks, Asks Harris How GOP 'Weaponized' Her Laughing

September 17th, 2024 4:50 PM

When Donald Trump sat down with the National Association of Black Journalists on July 31, the tone was combative and those interviewing him insisted on doing live fact-checking. On Tuesday, it was Kamala Harris’s turn for a much softer interview that saw the on-the-spot fact-checking go away despite multiple factually incorrect statements and be replaced with questions about how the GOP has "…

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Top CBS Shows Skip Own Journo Pressing Biden-Harris WH on Afghanistan

September 10th, 2024 1:55 PM

Monday’s White House press briefing led off with national security spokesman and frequent Karine Jean-Pierre crutch John Kirby defending the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of a House Foreign Affairs Committee report, arguing they’ve done plenty of soul-searching, but feel proud of what happened and want to move on. Thankfully, a few reporters had some…

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'One Of The Lowest Moments': PBS Attacks Trump's Arlington Visit

August 31st, 2024 10:00 AM

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr and New York Times counterpart David Brooks agreed on Friday’s PBS News Hour that Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery was “really one of the lowest political moments” they could recall.

Let’s Stop Negotiating With Terrorists

August 30th, 2024 6:25 PM

My organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, organized a delegation of 20 prominent pastors to travel to Israel to host a press conference on Oct. 7 as a show of support for and solidarity with Israelis on the one-year anniversary of the horrendous, savage terrorist attack that took place. A few days ago, we were notified by Delta Airlines that our flight was canceled.