AP Bitterly Clings to 'Worst New-Home Sales Market in Nearly 50 Years

In an unbylined report this morning on homebuilders' continued pessimism, the Associated Press continues to mislead its readers and other news consumers about just how bad the market for new homes has been during the past two years. The government has been reporting new home sales since 1963. The 320,000 news homes sold in 2010, which followed sales of only 375,000 in 2009, are the two worst…
Tom Blumer

Krugman: Republicans Are Holding America Hostage

When an admittedly liberal Nobel laureate in economics thinks trying to balance the budget is holding America hostage, one has to wonder if there are any adults remaining on the left side of the aisle. Consider what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote Monday:
Noel Sheppard

CNN Tries to Contain Damage from Spitzer Outing Zakaria’s Consultati

Two days after liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer told fellow CNN host Fareed Zakaria it “brought a smile to my face” and “makes my heart warm” to learn President Obama “calls you for wisdom and advice about issues around the world,” Zakaria took to CNN’s Web site for his Sunday show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, to issue a “clarification on my conversations with the President” in…
Brent Baker

Buchanan: Newt Is 'Out On Left Wing Of Republican Party

Newt Gingrich came in for some serious criticism on today's Morning Joe.   Reacting to footage of Newt on Meet the Press alluding to Paul Ryan's health care proposal as "radical," Joe Scarborough accused Gingrich of being in "the mushy middle." Pat Buchanan came with the unkindest cut of all, saying Gingrich is "out on the left wing of the Republican party." View video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein

WaPo Overlooks Boehner Speech, Highlights Students Asking the Speaker

When a liberal Democrat is Speaker of the House, everything they say is newsworthy, but when a conservative Republican is Speaker, the most newsworthy people are angry protesters of the Speaker. This came true on Sunday, when The Washington Post story on Speaker John Boehner's commencement address at Catholic University of America in D.C. by Katherine Shaver was all about the protesters, and…
Tim Graham

CBS Highlights Liberal Catholic Faculty Attacking Boehner on the Poor

Saturday’s The Early Show on CBS gave attention to a number of liberal faculty members at Catholic University who, in a letter, questioned House Speaker John Boehner’s Catholic credentials on helping the poor ahead of the Ohio Republican’s speech at the university’s commencement. CBS’s Betty Nguyen noted that "not everyone" at the university "is looking forward to" his speech, and recounted…
Brad Wilmouth

Ben Stein Links Muslim Brotherhood to Hitler, Warns Iran Gaining Power

 On CBS’s Sunday Morning show, during his regular commentary, right-leaning CBS contributor Ben Stein gave a pessimistic view of the "Arab Spring" movement to topple authoritarian governments in the Middle East, charged that America would regret allowing Hosni Mubarak lose power in Egypt, and predicted that the radical Muslm Brotherhood would take over there. He also gave rare attention to…
Brad Wilmouth

FNC’s Fox News Watch Highlights Cal Thomas Earning MRC’s ‘Excell

With “Cal’s High Honor” as the on-screen tag, the Fox News Channel on Saturday highlighted video of Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas receiving the Media Research Center’s “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” at the MRC’s May 7 annual Gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards.” After the jump: Video of what Fox News Watch showed of MRC President Brent Bozell introducing Thomas and…

Brent Baker

Roger Ebert and Joan Walsh Jump on David Gregory's Gingrich is Racist

NBC's David Gregory started a Newt Gingrich is racist trend Sunday that liberal media members across the fruited plain quickly embraced. After the "Meet the Press" host accused the former House Speaker of racism for having the nerve to call Barack Obama "The most successful food stamp president in American history," Salon's Joan Walsh out in San Francisco jumped on the bandwagon as did…
Noel Sheppard

AP Reporters Act As If Social Security's Reckoning Is 25 years Away; I

The opening paragraph of Saturday morning's Associated Press report by Stephen Ohlemacher and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar on the state of Social Security and Medicare and an additional sentence from the third paragraph give away the fact that theirs will not be a missive that should be taken seriously (bold is mine): The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and…
Tom Blumer

Daily Kos Week in Review: Common Dreams

And now, this week's news from Lake Kosbegon, where Osama bin Laden sounded like a GOP campaign strategist, conservatives were hypersensitive, hysterical "dumbasses," and fetuses were likened to burglars. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson

Soros-Funded Group Falsely Accuses Ron Paul of Comparing Social Securi

The depths the shills on the Left will go to impugn their enemies knows no bounds. On Sunday, the George Soros-funded organization Think Progress falsely accused Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx.) of comparing Social Security and Medicare to slavery (video follows with transcript and commentary): 
Noel Sheppard

Lawrence O'Donnell: 'I’m Not Policing Thought - I Encourage Thought

For many years I've been saying it takes a lot of rationalizations to be a liberal these days. As additional evidence, I offer the following statement by Lawrence O'Donnell published in the June issue of Playboy:
Noel Sheppard

To Stand Up and Serve

"I heard someone say yesterday that the last years had been completely wasted as far as he was concerned. I'm very glad that I have never yet had that feeling, even for a moment," Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in April of 1944.   Horrified by the Nazi treatment of Jews, the German Lutheran pastor would join the conspiracy against Hitler and ultimately be hanged in a prison camp the next…
Kathryn Jean Lopez