Open Thread

Today's starter: A former Arabic translator for ABC and FNC has been charged with helping a terrorist leader communicate with his followers.
NB Staff
 

YouTube, Google, and the Liberal Bias Virus

Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo: Hastert 'Looks Like a Cross Between Wilford Brimley and Jabba th

Mike Bates
 

Remembering 'Gay Pioneer' Gerry Studds: Was Fighting the Contras for

Tim Graham
 

The New York Times Shows It's Worried About Tony Snow’s Image

Terry Trippany
 

WashPost: Anti-War Reporter-Authors Aren't Liberal, Mangling Mitch McC

Tim Graham
 

Rooney: U.S. Should've Attacked North Korea, But Now 'Ineffectual' UN

At the end of Sunday's 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney expressed bafflement over why anyone would worry about a nuclear weapon in the hands of a communist tyrant: “I don't understand why we think it's okay for us to have a nuclear weapon, but it isn't okay for some other countries to have any.” And he went on to assert a very naive and dangerous view: “I don't think any country should have nuclear…
Brent Baker
 

Gabler: MRC Should Seek Osama 'Because They Always Find What They're L

Brent Baker
 

Regarding N. Korea, Who Said It: Tehran or LA Times Columnist

Mark Finkelstein
 

AP’s Extraordinary Double Standard Regarding Mark Foley and Gerry St

Since the Mark Foley page story first broke, there have been many articles discussing the double standard in which Republican and Democrat sex scandals are handled by Congress and the media. No finer example of such hypocrisy has been demonstrated than by the Associated Press on Saturday, October 14, which had nothing but high praise for the now deceased former Rep. Gerry Studds while it…
Noel Sheppard
 

Blitzer Allows Dean To Slam Bush Team On North Korea Resolution Withou

Greg Tinti
 

Far-Left PBS Study Has an MRC Error, Doesn't Prove PBS is Conservative

Tim Graham
 

Studds Had to Die to Get NBC to Remind Viewers of His Sex with a Teen

Gerry Studds had to die for NBC Nightly News to inform viewers of how the former Democratic Congressman had a sexual relationship with 17-year-old male congressional page, misconduct for which the House in 1983 censured him, but did not prompt Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill and other leaders to force his resignation -- nor raise calls for O'Neill's resignation. Despite the Democratic…
Brent Baker
 

Friday Night Fights: Conservative Woman KOs Bill Maher and Ben Affleck

It is quite doubtful that HBO’s Bill Maher knew what he was in for when he scheduled Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute to be on his "Real Time" panel Friday night. After all, with CNN’s Lou Dobbs and liberal actor Ben Affleck surrounding her, it seemed highly unlikely the lone conservative in the discussion would survive the scrum, let alone win the debate. However, not only…
Noel Sheppard