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Couric: 'Incredible Shrinking Rebate' May Not Be Enough
CBS reports food and energy inflation will nullify the effects of 'stimulus,' while credit cards will do well.
Time Rejoices over World's Green Conscience, Banning of DDT
Fresh off its controversial Iwo Jima cover with Marines raising a tree, Time magazine's May 5 issue celebrates with an Earth Day roundup. The cause for celebration? That in 2008, "every day is Earth Day," exulted Nancy Gibbs. Gibbs celebrated, among other things, the banning of DDT, which led to millions of preventable deaths from malaria. "Back in 1970, there was ... poison in our pesticides,"…
Inhofe Calls for Congressional and EPA Action on Ethanol Mandates (w/v
As food prices soar, and international experts as well as media members call for action, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, took to the Senate floor Tuesday calling for a Congressional review of biofuel policy, and for the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the current ethanol mandates.Coincidentally, this occurred…
CNN Portrays Disabled Woman as Victim of Court’s Voter ID Decision
During a segment on Monday’s "The Situation Room," host Wolf Blitzer and CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena framed the Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana’s "strict" voter ID law according to the liberal view (a law so "strict" that it calls for the voter show photo ID before voting). Arena’s report offered three critics of the decision to only one supporter, who happened to be Indiana’s…
Apostles of Atheism Redux: CBS, ABC Publicize Plight of Army Atheist
Religion and the military shouldn't mix. That's the take away message that both CBS and ABC touted when their Sunday morning news programs publicized the plight of an atheist who is suing the Army for religious discrimination. On April 27th CBS's Sunday Morning and ABC's Good Morning America Sunday each featured the story of Jeremy Hall, an Army specialist who claims he was denied promotion and…
Opponents of Muslim School "Divisive," "Self-Appointed Watchdogs
Overdramatic Andrea Elliott: Opponents of a Muslim public school and its principal Debbie Almontaser are part "of a growing and organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life."
ABC Hits Obama and Wright with a Gingrich
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was on ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday to discuss his new book about Pearl Harbor called "Days of Infamy."Not surprisingly, Barbara Walters asked Gingrich for his opinions about the current presidential race, and likely got some answers a tad different than what she expected.For instance, when Walters asked Gingrich to "Look ahead to next November,…
LiveBlog: Bush Press Conference on the Economy
President Bush is holding a press conference on the U.S. economy. I'll be blogging the questions to the president below. Video of Bush/Raddatz clash here (audio available here).Video of Stolberg and Ryan on recession here (audio here)My bottom line analysis (11:25): The two R's of bias from this Rose Garden presser: Martha Raddatz on Syria and numerous reporters on the dreaded R-word, recession.…
BBC Likens Hillary Clinton to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
The mainstream media types appear to have turned on Hillary Clinton as of late, with the BBC likening her to the knife wielding Alex Forest played by Glen Close in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. (all emphasis mine throughout) The candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to die. She has been compared to the Duracell battery bunny that keeps on shuffling when others, powered by lesser fuel…
Poor Hillary: 'You'd Be Tough Too, If You Had My Life
With Barack Obama drowning in Rev. Wright's waves, all Hillary really needs to do is keep her head down and show up on time to be endorsed today by NC Gov. Mike Easley. The last thing Clinton needs is to make a gaffe of her own.Now let's grant that the one we're about to discuss ranks rather low on the Gaffe-o-meter. If Sniper-gate was a 6.2, this might be a 2.1. But this particular misstep does…
NewsBusted
Topics in this show: 15% of American adults admit they've driven under the influence of alcohol, Barack Obama's campaign blogger, Alicia Keyes on the rap conspiracy, "American Idol's" ratings start to drop, and Flavor Flav's new sitcom. Click "play" on the video to the right to watch.Support conservative comedy! If you're a Myspace user, be sure to visit our MySpace page and add NewsBusted as a…
Supreme Court 'Splintered,' But Only for the Conservative Decisions
The United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana's voter ID law today in a 6-3 decision. In an earlier post, Ken Shepherd pointed out that Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman framed the ruling as "splintered." While the four conservative Justices joined in the majority opinion, the decision itself was written by liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, and so Sherman's terminology is questionable at…