Reuters' Class Warfare: Lower Tax Receipts 'Costs' Gov't
August 25th, 2008 9:20 PM
Reuters thinks that tax breaks and loopholes "costs" government its tax receipts. This is a perfect example of class hatred ginned up by the media to further class warfare between Americans. The absolute truth is that if people use the tax code to limit their tax burden they are not costing the government anything, but are using legal means to avoid a higher tax burden. Further, our money is NOT…
Time Magazine on Michelle Obama's 'Nuclear-family Nostalgia
August 25th, 2008 1:32 PM
Writing on "Michelle Obama's Savvy Sacrifice," Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small sought to bring out what the Illinois senator's spouse "is less likely to talk about" when she addresses the Democratic National Convention tonight. No, not her Princeton thesis or her being proud of America for the first time in her adult lifetime but rather: that this tough, razor smart Chicago native had to…
Biden's 1988 Campaign Plagiarism Goes Well Beyond What Wiki Reveals
August 25th, 2008 11:14 AM
Joe Biden's 1987 stump-speech plagiarism of Neil Kinnock likely occurred more than once. Additionally, according to contemporaneous New York Times reports, including an editorial, Biden's orations featured unattributed speech-lifting from John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey. That's a lot more than Joe Biden's defenders and two of his Wikipedia entries have thus far revealed.…
More Biden Wiki Wackiness: A Whole Year Disappears
August 24th, 2008 11:56 AM
The Friday evening version of Joe Biden's Wikipedia entry remains firmly ensconced in a Firefox tab on my desktop, so it can be compared to its current form as Obama-Biden's busy bees brush it up. I'm doing comparisons as time allows, and there isn't much of it at the moment. One thing is quickly obvious -- a section heading for a whole year has disappeared: Amazing. Where did 2004 go? You'll…
LATimes Brooks Thinks Russia/Georgia War is Funny
August 22nd, 2008 8:39 AM
The L.A. Times' Rosa Brooks has done it again, taken a serious subject and made an uninformed romp of it. One wonders how the old Georgian lady seen in news photos standing wounded among the ruins of her apartment building, or the Georgian Mother running down the street, infant in her arms, trying to escape Russian tanks might feel about the humor with which Brooks brings to bear upon their…
WaPo Labeling Bias Pits Conservative Pro-lifers vs. 'Women's Health Ad
August 22nd, 2008 8:16 AM
In a below-the-fold August 22 front page story, the Washington Post cast a "controversial" new federal regulation aimed at safeguarding the consciences of medical professionals as pitting "conservative groups" and "abortion opponents" against "[w]omen's health advocates."Right off the bat Post staffer Rob Stein skewed his article -- "Protections Set for Antiabortion Health Workers: Opponents…
Think Wikipedia Is Biased? Do Something About It
August 22nd, 2008 12:56 AM
Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web's biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world. Started in 2001 on a shoestring budget, Wikipedia now ranks as the ninth most popular Web site in the U.S., according to Internet ratings company Alexa.com, outpacing such "old media"…
Time in the Tank: 8 Cover Appearances in 9 Months
August 21st, 2008 5:04 PM
Here's what's at the top of Drudge's middle column at the moment: Actually, I count seven previous cover appearances since December 10, 2007, less than nine months ago:
Obama on Time's Cover AGAIN
August 21st, 2008 4:55 PM
Via Drudge we get the recognition that Time Magazine has once again placed the Obamessiah on its cover. This makes the 7th time in the space of a year that Obama has graced the cover of Time Magazine.
Thus far, McCain has found the favor of the front cover precisely two times.
In the tank much?
Dem Mantra of More Deaths By Terror Under Bush Disproven
August 21st, 2008 3:19 PM
A new independent study shows that deaths from terrorism have actually declined by more than 40 percent since 2001. This flies in the face of the constant Democrat mantra that states the opposite, that terrorism has increased since Bush initiated the War on Terror. It is a mantra that the media have helpfully spread for their friends at the DNC.
We've heard it again and again from the left in…
SI’s Selena Roberts Predicts Olympic Softball Might Be Saved by Obam
August 21st, 2008 1:19 PM
Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts, when asked during an interview on the SI website about the future of softball as an Olympic competition on Thursday, added some liberal commentary into her prediction about the sport’s redemption: "One other wildcard for 2016 is the exit of the Bush administration. The undercurrent of anti-Americanism within the IOC, which some say has hurt the U.S. because of…
Orlando Magazine 'Duped,' Publishes Artist's Fake Biography as Fact
August 21st, 2008 3:00 AM
Orlando Magazine (FL) published the amazing life's story of Florida artist Mark Pulliam in their August issue. It was an amazing story of a man who seemingly did everything. Played Major League Baseball, hobnobbed with the likes of Paul McCartney, Madonna, and Tiger Woods as well as finding great success as a local artist. Oh, it seemed a whirlwind life. One little problem. Little of it was true…
Pew: Obama Takes Vacation, Still Generates More News Than McCain
August 20th, 2008 4:28 PM
Continuing the theme of this election cycle, Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, took a vacation to Hawaii and .... wait for it .... still generated more stories and headlines than his still-campaigning rival, John McCain. According to the Pew Research Center's latest review of the news, "the Democrat registered as a significant or dominant factor in 63% of the campaign stories…