Global Warming Update: CNN Drops Science Unit and Miles O'Brien

Climate alarmists won't have Miles O'Brien to spread global warming hysteria on CNN anymore as the network has decided to eliminate its science and technology unit.As reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday, this "will result in the loss of seven jobs including veteran space correspondent Miles O’Brien."Apparently, this isn't a cost-cutting move (h/t Chris Horner):
Noel Sheppard

New York Times Omits Freddie Mac from Emanuel's Resume

Front page business profile doesn't mention two-year stint with troubled government sponsored enterprise.
Matt Philbin

When You Say ‘Zoo,’ Elephants Hear ‘Guantanamo Bay

Sometimes you have to laugh at the overwrought emotion that Hollywood celebrities bring to their causes. In a story on Thursday’s Today (in the supposedly hard news 7am half hour), KNBC reporter Robert Kovasic reported on a debate in Los Angeles about whether to spend $40 million to renovate and enlarge the elephant compound at the Los Angeles Zoo, or instead create a 100-acre elephant preserve…
Rich Noyes

AP Touts Alabama County Resolution: Barack Obama Day

A small county in rural Alabama is making national news for passing a motion declaring that the second Monday in November will be forever recognized as "Barack Obama Day". Normally small county resolutions that affect a mere 40 of this nation's 301 million residents would not capture a national audience. In this case however the AP has discovered one of those pivotal occasions where they can…
Terry Trippany

Michael Moore Continues Assault on Free Enterprise

Controversial filmmaker says 'capitalism doesn't work;' accuses 'wealthy' of collecting 'as much silverware as possible' before Obama sworn in.
Jeff Poor

Dear Baltimore Sun: Politicians Aren't Business Experts

If you wouldn't entrust your 401(k) to a senator why support political investments in the auto industry?
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Amanpour to Leno: Obama's Election Spurred Singing, Dancing, and High

Tim Graham

Refreshing: NY Times Blogger Rejects Hipster Affection for Che Guevara

There was an interesting post Tuesday morning on the New York Times's "City Room" blog, "Che, or a Statue of an Actor Playing Che," about a statue of an actor playing Che Guevara recently installed in a corner of Central Park. David Gonzalez interviewed passerby delighted at the representation (once-removed) of Guevara, the colorful Communist thug romanticized among the benighted left and the…
Clay Waters

Econ 101: Financial Bailouts and the Rule of Law

Rule of law - not rule of men - is necessary for economic stability.
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.

Sounding Too Much Like Michael Moore, Chuck Todd Cites NewsBusters

On Thursday's "Morning Joe," after being told that a critique of his on the auto industry bailout sounded very similar to one made by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, MSNBC political director Chuck Todd told co-host Willie Geist that he dreaded what the people at NewsBusters would say: "By the way, I can't wait 'til our friends at NewsBusters, you know, compare, compare me to Michael Moore. I…
Scott Whitlock

CBS’s Schieffer: Obama Cabinet ‘Bunch of Flaming Moderates

On Thursday’s "CBS Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked discussed the Obama transition with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who observed: "...a lot of people said this is going to be a very extremist president and all that, that he's a very liberal Democrat, but as we have seen in appointment after appointment, he's hewing to the center. He's picking a bunch of flaming moderates here, when…
Kyle Drennen

YouTube Tries to Clean Up Its Act

With the economic recession beginning to affect even Google, news came out today that the web giant's YouTube property is making some major changes to its video service that are designed to clean up the site's image in the hopes of slowing the massive financial bleeding.The policy changes were announced in a posting at the YouTube blog. An excerpt from the post is after the jump:
Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Gun sales rising because of Obama!Embedded right is a video from a "Nightline" installment a few weeks ago discussing the explosion in gun sales nationally since Obama was elected. The CBS affiliate in Chicago did a report on this subject Wednesday night (video available here):"Once people started to realize that the Democrats had a…
NB Staff

Amanpour Praises Her Own Courage in CNN Special

Tim Graham