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Is there no depth the global warming fear-mongers won't go to scare the public into believing carbon dioxide is destroying the planet?Apparently not, as a new ad by the environmental group Greenpeace disgracefully depicts an ocean rescue of a seasick and vomiting Santa Claus from a supposedly melting North Pole.As the animation comes to a close, the caption "Climate Change hits everybody" fills…

“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources” (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint strict constructionist judges, if she should fear a return to slavery. Unfazed, Whoopi replied “I thought…

Internet behemoth Google on Sunday declared the conservative website Lucianne, founded by Lucianne Goldberg, harmful to computers.Oddly, as NewsBusters reported, the same thing happened to the conservative website "American Spectator" almost exactly a year ago.  If you do a regular Google web search of the word "Lucianne," the following is the first result:

The MSM has been too reverential towards George W. Bush.  Yeah, that's the ticket.  The only thing more absurd than that assertion was Arianna Huffington's willingness to accept it as a fact in answering a question. Here was the exchange between Huffington and Choire Sicha, writing for the LA Times, in today's "Sunday Conversation" feature [emphasis added]:CHOIRE SICHA: It was only recently that…

Parade magazine, a supplement to many of the nation's Sunday newspapers, claims to have over 72 million readers.  Today in the magazine's "Personality Parade" section, readers saw this question and answer:Q Can you give us an update on Elian Gonzalez, the boy rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999, then returned to Cuba over the protests of his U.S. relatives?--Mark Larsen, Calhoun, Ga.A Elian…

As NewsBuster Dan Gainor has noted, Playboy Mexico thought it could make some pesos by peddling an issue with a scantily-clad Virgin Mary on the cover—just in time for Christmas.  Today's Los Angeles Times contains an editorial denouncing the tasteless stunt.  All well and good.  But it set me to wondering.  Did the LAT protest similar outrages against religous symbols when they appeared in the…

UPDATE AT END OF POST: White House issues statement concerning "Irresponsible Reporting by New York Times."It's official: the housing and financial crisis gripping the nation is President George W. Bush's fault.So said the New York Times Sunday in a 4900-word, front page hit piece entitled "The Reckoning - Bush's Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire."And what was this heinous, catastrophic…

It's week 16, and Joe's got it covered below the fold.

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