WaPo Notes Chavez Backing for FARC Terrorists, Six Days After WSJ Had

Six days after Wall Street Journal's Jose de Cordoba and Jay Solomon published their front-pager, "Chávez Aided Colombia Rebels, Captured Computer Files Show," the Washington Post turned out its coverage of the development by staffer Juan Forero, who pulled a few punches by failing to directly finger Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez: CARACAS, Venezuela, May 14 -- High-ranking officials in…
Ken Shepherd
 

Sherri Shepherd Suggests West Virginians are Racist

Justin McCarthy
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

AP Standards: Obama's Top Contributors Linked to Investments in Sudan

Applying the AP's McCain Standard to Barack Obama Shows Sudanese Connections to His Campaign It's a strange one sided sort of game the Associated Press is playing in its latest attack against John McCain. AP writer Jim Kuhnhenn is applying a six degrees of separation style standard in trying to accuse John McCain of investing in the Sudan because his wife owned some mutual funds that had holdings…
Terry Trippany
 

Sawyer Suggests Hillary Should Reject Race-Based Votes. And Obama

Hillary Clinton won among white voters in West Virginia by a 67-26% margin. Pretty lopsided. Then again, that's nearly an even split compared to the 90+ percent of black votes Barack Obama's been racking up in state after state.So who does Diane Sawyer suggest should reject race-based votes? Senator 90+? Nope. James Carville was Sawyer's guest during the GMA's opening half-hour today.DIANE…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Olbermann Accuses Bush of 'Murderous Deceit,' Should 'Shut the Hell Up

Brad Wilmouth
 

Obama Offends Feminists By Dismissing Reporter As 'Sweetie

Now here's a little gaffe from Barack Obama that will energize the "I Am Woman"-humming folks in Hillaryland. Andrew Malcolm at the Los Angeles Times "Top of the Ticket" blog reports a TV journalist in Detroit pressing Obama for answers, Peggy Agar, was dismissed with the term "sweetie." (He also has video.) Suddenly Obama was walking right toward her. "Senator," Agar addressed him, "how are you…
Tim Graham
 

California Supremes Order Homosexual 'Marriage'-- Will Citizens Submit

Dissenting justices called the ruling a startling act of legal jujitsu that oversteps judicial power.
Jan LaRue, Esq.
 

TIME's Campaign Coverage in Question

CMI report exposes editor's political agenda: persuading religious voters to support Democrats.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Religion: How ABC Loathes Thee

Boston Legal episode is a vehicle for anti-religious propaganda under the guise of entertainment.
Colleen Raezler
 

Nets Excited by 'Major' Edwards Endorsement to 'Create One America

Trumpeting the “major endorsement” from John Edwards for Barack Obama, the day after Obama was trounced by 40 points in West Virginia all three broadcast network evening newscasts led Wednesday night with the “dramatic” announcement of the “political prize” that gives Obama a “major boost.” Katie Couric returned at the end of the 6:30 PM EST CBS Evening News feed to reiterate “our top story…
Brent Baker
 

Stephen King’s Third Explanation Still Unapologetic to Military

Noel Sheppard
 

Anti-Conservative Hollyweird Update -- BDS and Globaloney Galore

Warner Todd Huston
 

Edwards Endorses . . . Worldview of USA as 'Bully

It wasn't just Barack Obama's candidacy that John Edwards endorsed tonight. It was also the worldview that sees the United States as a "bully." Consider these lines from Edwards just-completed speech.JOHN EDWARDS: There's also a wall that's divided our image in the world. The America as the beacon of hope is behind that wall. And all the world sees now is a bully. They see Iraq, Guantanamo,…
Mark Finkelstein