Ed Schultz Guest: 'Even' Bernie Sanders Believes We Must 'Get Our Fisc

You know the situation is serious when "even" an avowed socialist worries about government spending. Here's a clip of Democrat congressman Peter Welch of Vermont on Ed Schultz's radio show Monday talking about the looming battle over the debt ceiling (audio) --
Jack Coleman

David Leonhardt, NYT's Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary, Loves Oba

The New York Times's chief economics writer David Leonhardt has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. The prize committee praised Leonhardt for “his graceful penetration of America’s complicated economics questions.” The White House and congressional Democrats are huge fans as well, emailing around his previous defenses of programs like Obama’s stimulus. However, the paper's Public…
Clay Waters

Birther-Obsessed George Stephanopoulos Forces Michele Bachmann to Gaze

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday continued to obsess over the birther issue, foisting Barack Obama's certificate of live birth onto guest Michele Bachmann. Holding up a copy, the co-host lectured, "It's certified. It has got a certification number. It has got the registrar of the state signed. It has got a seal on it." After Bachmann replied that the document "…
Scott Whitlock

Liberal Website Wonkette Disgracefully Attacks Trig Palin On His Third

What has become of today's liberalism that makes it acceptable to attack the mentally handicapped if they or their parents are conservatives? Consider the following disgraceful posting about Trig Palin published at the left-leaning website Wonkette Monday:
Noel Sheppard

Ted Danson: 'We Shouldn't Just Close Some Coasts to Oil Drilling - We

The star of the hit series now in syndication "Cheers" made a strong statement about offshore drilling on the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill. "We should not just close some of our coasts to drilling," wrote Ted Danson at the Huffington Post Tuesday. "We should close all of them": 
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC Guest: Liking Ayn Rand Means You Endorse Terrorism, or Something

Do you read Ayn Rand? Do you enjoy her novels? You do? Well then, you're clearly a proponent of - or at the very least sympathize with - domestic terrorism. That, at least, is the logic put forth by Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston on last night's "Ed Show," in what may be the most absurd, laughable attempt to demonize Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to date.…
Lachlan Markay

WaPo's 'Green Lantern': 'Is Chewing Gum Bad for the Environment

Does the hectoring of the leftist green movement know no bounds? Apparently your stick of Juicy Fruit is a menace to the Earth now. In his "The Green Lantern" column yesterday, the Washington Post's Brian Palmer took a look at how un-green chewing gum is.
Ken Shepherd

Dean: Only Reason To Fight In Afghanistan--Feminism

Call him a NOW-hawk . . . Of all the reasons to send our people to fight and die in Afghanistan, spending $2 billion per week in the process, Howard Dean has managed to come up with perhaps the worst: feminism. On today's Morning Joe, Dean explained that "the whole reason" he used to support President Obama's waging of the Afghanistan war was that leaving the country would plunge its…
Mark Finkelstein

Since Oil Spill, Rising Gas Prices Linked to Obama Drilling Ban in Jus

On April 20, 2010, a horrific oil spill took place in the Gulf of Mexico on British Petroleum's (BP) Deepwater Horizon rig. Since that day, gas prices have risen nearly $1-a-gallon to $3.83 per gallon. President Barack Obama's anti-oil policies, including a drilling moratorium are at least part of the reason for that dramatic spike. But you will rarely hear that from the mainstream media. It…
Julia A. Seymour

Holy Week: Media Worship Earth Day, Attack Easter

Easter is the quintessential Christian holiday - the celebration of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. Although it has been celebrated by billions of people around the world for nearly 2,000 years, the mainstream media would rather celebrate the liberal holiday known as "Earth Day" and connect Easter to the abuse scandal that surrounded the Roman Catholic Church. Some major Findings:  
Erin R. Brown

Ed Schultz Again Calls Republicans Liars Before Lying Himself

For the second night in a row Tuesday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz called Republicans liars. Also for the second night in a row, he did so moments before lying himself (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard

Academic Rot

The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea of the academic rot at so many of our colleges. Save for a tiny handful of the nation's colleges, what distinguishes one college from another is the magnitude of that rot. One of the best sources of information about our colleges is the New York City-based Manhattan Institute's quarterly Web magazine, Minding the Campus,…
Walter E. Williams

Overnight Howler at the NYT's 'Room For Debate': 'Default Is Impossibl

On Monday, the New York Times assembled a panel of alleged experts in its Room For Debate section. Each weighed in on Monday's ratings agency outlook downgrade by Standard and Poor's in an item entitled "Is Anyone Listening to the S.&P.?" (Don't ask me why "the" is there. It shouldn't be; the item is about the firm Standard and Poor's, not "the" Standard and Poor's stock index.) One of…
Tom Blumer

AP's Kravitz the Creative Morphs Increase in Housing Starts Into 'New

The Associated Press's Derek Kravitz seems to have a difficult time quoting government statistics without rewording them. This is a far from harmless habit. Tuesday, Kravitz the Creative reported on the Census Bureau's information release on March homebuilding industry activity. His first two paragraphs and the story's headline (y'know, the parts that are more likely to be read over the…
Tom Blumer