Post-Imus, Free Speech Doesn't Mean Free Speech

From Todd Boyd, ESPN’s Page 2:Now that disgraced radio talk-show host Don Imus has been booted, can we finally get down to some “real talk” about the multiple issues embedded in this racial theater? There is a lot to sort through here, but after a week of debate centered around “nappy-headed hos,” half-assed apologies, cries of censorship, and a curmudgeonly shock jock’s lame attempt at being…
Jeff Goldstein

Readers Complain Over Daily Telegraph's Insensitive Story on Victim of

Warner Todd Huston

CBS Suggests More Gun Control Could Impede Terrorism

In an April 17 article at CBSNews.com, investigative reporter Armen Keteyian tracked down the origin of the guns used by Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui. While Keteyian failed to consider what part restrictive anti-concealed carry policies on the Virginia Tech campus may have played in ensuring Cho faced no opposition from armed civilians, he found a former ATF agent to criticize…
Ken Shepherd

Fox News' Stirring Tribute to Virginia Tech Victims

Ladies and Gentlemen,The nation has been moved by yesterday’s tragedy at Virginia Tech. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and loved ones of the needlessly fallen.For those interested, Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren did an unbelievably moving tribute to all the victims Tuesday evening that left me shaking and in tears (video available here, h/t Glenn Reynolds).Also, our friend…
Noel Sheppard

Time's Tumulty: Gore's Gun Licensing Idea Was 'Modest

Ken Shepherd

What a Difference a Judge Makes

The magnitude of who gets to appoint the next justice to the United States Supreme Court is supremely illustrated by the Court's ruling today upholding the congressional ban on partial birth abortion.
Jan LaRue, Esq.

PTC: TV Networks Get 'F' for Ratings

New study shows networks fail to warn parents about program content
Kristen Fyfe

New Study Refutes Gore’s Contention That Global Warming Increases Hu

Talk about your really inconvenient truths, a new study to be released on Wednesday refutes one of the major cataclysmic claims of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry global warming alarmists.For those that have forgotten – or just intentionally blocked it out -- in the schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore contended that global warming was responsible for increased…
Noel Sheppard

Nets Blame Virginia's 'Lax' Gun Laws, Gibson and Couric Press Bush on

Without any regard to how school shootings in recent years have occurred in states and nations with stricter gun laws, including one last year at a college in Quebec, Canada, ABC and CBS on Tuesday night focused stories and questions on Virginia's “lax” gun laws. “How the gunman purchased the murder weapon,” ABC anchor Charles Gibson teased an upcoming story, “Virginia's controversial gun laws:…
Brent Baker

John Kerry Says CBS Radio Shouldn’t Have Fired Don Imus

Here’s a shocking story that seems guaranteed to not be covered by the mainstream media: Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) told NY1 News that Don Imus shouldn’t have been fired by CBS Radio as a result of his recent statements about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.I kid you not.Although the interview is not scheduled to be broadcast until Tuesday evening, a partial transcript was posted at…
Noel Sheppard

British Parents Look to Stop Al Gore's ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ fro

Better put away those combustibles, potables, and sharp objects again, sports fans, because a group of British parents in New Forest, England, are threatening legal action if soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore’s schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is aired in their schools.I kid you not.As reported in Tuesday’s Telegraph (emphasis added throughout):Parents who claim that an award-winning film on climate…
Noel Sheppard

CNN First to Pursue Gun Control Angle With Virginia Tech Murders

Matthew Balan

MSNBC's David Shuster Promises to Examine Gun Policies That 'Enabled

Geoffrey Dickens

CBS's Cohen Sees 'Irony' in Gun Control Measures Not Working

Perhaps a sign of how blind the liberally-biased media are to arguments from gun rights advocates, CBS's Andrew Cohen wrote in his Washington Post "Bench Conference" blog that "There Is Irony in the Tragedy at Virginia Tech."I learned from CBS News' Armen Keteyian that school administrators and college officials at Virginia Tech had in fact implemented reasonable security measures (against the…
Ken Shepherd