NYT's Nagourney Credits California's Economic Recovery to Tax Hikes He

Wednesday's lead New York Times story from California-based Adam Nagourney strongly suggested that tax hikes promoted by Gov. Jerry Brown (and Nagourney himself) were paying off in economic resurgence in the already tax-high state: "California Finds Economic Gloom Starting To Lift." After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence…
Clay Waters
November 29th, 2012 7:52 AM

Government Defines Poverty Upward, Media Don’t Notice the Trick

While the reliable and original formula for the government to calculate who lives in “absolute poverty” is still in place, another measure has been introduced that enables the government to determine how many people live in “relative poverty,” a term often used to describe the concept of “income inequality.” According to Mickey Kaus of the Daily Caller website, this new “supplemental”…
Randy Hall
November 29th, 2012 1:00 AM

How Amazingly Convenient: Lefties 'Discover' That Susan Rice Has 'Conf

In what would appear to be a sure sign that the Obama administration's leftist allies, perhaps with the President's go-ahead, are preparing to throw current U.N. ambassador Susan Rice under the bus, Alex Guillen at the Politico reported at 6:14 p.m. on information that has from all appearances been public for at least three months, but which the National Resources Defense Council's On Earth…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 9:43 PM

More Out-of-Control Identity Politics: Blacks, Latinos Concerned That

In a story the New York Times appears not to have touched, Hunter Walker at Observer.com's Politicker ("about" page is here) reported on Tuesday that Thomas Lopez-Pierre, a black Harlem activist, "circulated an email" Monday night "in an attempt to plan a 'private meeting' to 'discuss the potential damage to the political empowerment of the Black and Hispanic community if Mark Levine, a White/…
Tom Blumer
November 28th, 2012 8:34 PM

Seize Them! Politicians Who Sign Norquist Pledge Are 'Traitors', Spews

Remember when a person had to actually betray our country before he or she would be labeled a traitor? Now all it takes is steadfast aversion to higher taxes during an era of nosebleed government spending and debt. (video clip after page break)
Jack Coleman
November 28th, 2012 7:43 PM

Obama Opposed Eliminating Filibuster In

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that President Obama has come out in support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) plan to reform the filibuster. This goes counter to Obama's view of this parliamentary procedure when he was a part of the Senate minority in 2005.
Noel Sheppard
November 28th, 2012 7:29 PM

CBS Plays Softball with Senator Klobuchar on Fiscal Cliff; Fails to Me

Norah O'Donnell and Charlie Rose tossed softball questions at Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar on Wednesday's CBS This Morning on the looming fiscal cliff, just two days after they hounded Republican Senator Bob Corker on the same issue. Rose casually mentioned to Senator Klobuchar how "the President believes you can't get there by deduction. You have to raise [tax] rates. Is that your view?" O…
Matthew Balan
November 28th, 2012 7:20 PM

CNN Barely Covered March for Life, But Gives Whole Interview to Seven

When tens of thousands of pro-life advocates peacefully marched in Washington D.C., CNN gave the rally two brief mentions. Contrast that with seven naked protesters who stripped in House Speaker Boehner's office on Tuesday, who received an almost five minute-long interview on Wednesday's Starting Point. "So how did you get naked into the Speaker's office?" host Soledad O'Brien obliged the…
Matt Hadro
November 28th, 2012 6:39 PM

Michelle Malkin Column: Obama the Job-Killing Owl Killer

Welcome to the pretzel logic of liberal environmental protection: In order to "save" owls, the Obama administration is going to shoot them dead. This is not — I repeat not — an Onion parody.
Michelle Malkin
November 28th, 2012 5:46 PM

Ed Schultz & Guest James Hoffa Outraged Over Rational Comments Made by

In an interview with CBS News anchor Scott Pelley last week, Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein immediately brought up a highly sensitive subject that liberals in the media and highest levels of government refuse to acknowledge: entitlement spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are unsustainable at their current rate and need significant reform to ensure those programs…
Ryan Robertson
November 28th, 2012 5:12 PM

Piers Morgan Lectures Reince Priebus and 'Intransigent' GOP on Taxes

On Tuesday, Piers Morgan lashed out at "intransigent" Republicans and lectured RNC chair Reince Priebus that now is the time to compromise and increase taxes "to the benefit of the American national interest." "But you Republicans led by Grover Norquist are absolutely intransigent about allowing any raise in taxation, and yet the American public want you to do it," Morgan lectured Priebus.…
Matt Hadro
November 28th, 2012 4:45 PM

NBC's Guthrie to Chris Matthews: Did Susan Rice 'Mislead' the Public

In an exchange with MSNBC Harball host Chris Matthews on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie pondered the possibility that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied about Benghazi: "...should she have been more direct that the information she was providing to the American people was at that point, not just preliminary, but incomplete? I guess the bottom line is, did she mislead?" Matthews…
Kyle Drennen
November 28th, 2012 4:25 PM

New York Times Columnists Battle Over Susan Rice and Benghazi

Wednesday's New York Times front page featured Susan Rice's failed attempt to assuage concerns of three Senate Republicans on her false statements about the Benghazi massacre in "Rice Concedes Error on Libya: G.O.P. Digs In." Inside was an unflattering photo of a peeved-looking Sen. John McCain. Posing Republican senator and Rice critic McCain as the bad guy, an on-line text box accompanying…
Clay Waters
November 28th, 2012 4:24 PM

MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, Ari Melber Smear Republicans Over Benghazi

In what has become a daily occurrence on MSNBC, liberal hosts and pundits on the network continue to attack the GOP for their scrutiny of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s post-Benghazi spin for the White House on September 16 editions of the network Sunday interview programs.  Appearing on Wednesday’sMSNBC Live, network contributors Joy-Ann Reid of TheGrio.com and Ari Melber of The Nation…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 28th, 2012 4:12 PM