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CBS: Bill O’Reilly, ‘Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
In a rather odd teaser for an upcoming Bill O’Reilly interview with co-host Hannah Storm on Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith remarked, "And looking for love in all the wrong places. Here's Bill O'Reilly in the studio this morning." What? Who’s "love" is O’Reilly looking for and why is the "Early Show" the "wrong" place to find it? Smith certainly made no such comment when he…
UN Climate Panel to Discuss Global Warming at Tropical Resort
Here's an amazingly inconvenient truth: the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held at the Bali International Convention Centre, "a truly beautiful tropical island paradise...home to the island's most luxurious hotel and resort." If these folks hate hot temperatures so much, why aren't they meeting somewhere in Greenland where the bogeyman known as manmade global warming…
Bill O'Reilly Weighs In on Potential Rosie/MSNBC Deal
With news of a possible Rosie O’Donnell show on MSNBC, Bill O’Reilly, a frequent critic of both, predictably led the November 6 "O’Reilly Factor" with his take.O’Reilly rehashed Rosie O’Donnell’s most inflammatory comments. Among them were her famous "fire can’t melt steel" September 11 conspiracy theory, calling terrorists "mothers and fathers," implying the British-Iranian hostage crisis was a…
ABC Host's Bogus Confession to Redford: I'm a 'Windsock' For War
Al Gore. Michael Moore. Robert Redford. On Wednesday, the actor/director became the third prominent left-winger to appear on "Good Morning America" this year and berate journalists for not being liberal enough. Redford, in his second GMA interview this week, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep stopped by to promote "Lions For Lambs," their new anti-war drama. During the interview, co-host Diane Sawyer…
What Is ITVS? And Why Is It Funding Libertine-Left Propaganda
The Independent Television Service was established by Congress in 1988 with legislation directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to establish ITVS with "a national coalition of independent producer groups." Currently, CPB awards $15 million a year to ITVS, a one-sided, left-wing "independent" filmmakers’ organizing center. ITVS saw its purpose to be "a catalyst for change, a way…
Knightley on the News: Biased Reporting Peeves British Starlet
In an interview in Elle magazine, actress Keira Knightley ("Pirates of the Caribbean", "Atonement"), lets loose on her frustrations with biased media. (h/t Matthew Felling) While I'm not sure how her politics skews -- she may be a leftie who thinks the media are too conservatively biased -- the British actress is spot on about the problem of subjective reporting:
Econ 101: What Does a Falling Dollar Mean
What changes our exchange rate, and should we worry about it? BMI adviser Gary Wolfram explains.
CNN's 'Your $$$$$' Scours the Nation for Recession Hints
Co-hosts prod guests about the R-word, select states with bad news.
Open Thread
For general debate and discussion. Possible talking point: Oil is now at $97.50 a barrel. Will it break $100, and what might that do to the economy?
NYT Slimes Private Guards in Iraq as 'Mercenaries
In an editorial with the misleadingly bland title "Legal Loopholes in Iraq," the Times editorial page took a leap into left-wing logic Monday, referring to private security contractors like Blackwater as "mercenaries." "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refers to the lack of legal accountability that allows mercenaries working for the American government to kill Iraqis without fear of…
David Obey: 'Al Qaeda Out of Targets'; Old Media Apparently Out of Ink
Just when you thought those holding on to the claim that the Iraq War is a failure had reached the intellectual bottom of the barrel, we get this from David Obey, as reported by Mike Soraghan at The Hill: Terrorists are ‘running out of people to kill,’ says Obey If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,” House Appropriations Committee…