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"In the Republican Party, there has been nothing but dead wood for about 15 years," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto on Friday evening. But now that dynamic conservatives like "Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul," are on the rise, the GOP's "old guard," which "will not fight for anything" is outraged and joining liberal journalists and…

Washington Post columnist Colbert King may be liberal, but he really gets ticked off about violence, in Washington or anywhere. In Saturday’s column, he slammed the media for obsessing over trivia (football, Miley Cyrus twerking) while Africa’s Christians are slaughtered by Islamists. He began with a scene from Nairobi: “Hiding the Christian name on his ID with his thumb, Joshua Hakim…

Anyone who watches TV, with everything from "Glee" to "America's Next Top Model," sees a torrent of homosexuality promotion. But the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of TV and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) produced a study that insists that Hollywood is still backwards on the LGBT agenda. The study, four years in the making and performed by the UCLA Law School’s Williams Institute, was…

Bill Maher made a truly disgusting comment about former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara Friday. During the opening monologue of HBO’s Real Time, the host sad, “Over the years they were often mistaken for a same-sex couple” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

With the president's popularity continuing to drop thanks to yet another fiscal crisis created by the fact that Senate Democrats have not passed any sort of budget since 2009, President Obama decided to lash out at a favorite target: Fox News Channel. In highly partisan remarks he delivered at a Maryland community college, Obama lashed out at the nation's most-watched cable news outfit,…

Patricia Murphy at the Daily Beast launched this assault on Thursday: “Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions.” The subhead was "Ted Cruz's war against Obamacare is a racket to raise his profile and millions of dollars." Murphy saw only greed in his 21-hour speech: “Cruz was leading a fake fight over a fake vote that nearly all in Washington agree would never actually defund…

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Joshua Freed's Friday afternoon report on the week's results in the stock market at the Associated Press spent nine paragraphs telling readers how the current budget battle in Washington and possible government shutdown are causing stocks to retreat. Though he obviously didn't admit it, Freed's narrative fell apart in later paragraphs as he discussed "mixed economic signals" which aren't mixed…

Melanie Hunter at CNS News reports Al Gore launched some hot rhetoric at the normally sedate Brookings Institution on Friday on the threat of a shutdown over Obamacare. " I think the only phrase that describes it is political terrorism." He spoke in an alleged Tea Party voice: "‘Nice global economy you got there. Be a shame if we’d have to destroy it. We have a list of demands. If you don’t meet…

Within days of being brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, Matthew Shepard became for the Left a Christ figure, a sacrificial savior of the gay-rights cause. They even composed a passion play indicting a bigoted America in the hate crime called "The Laramie Project" that’s been performed across the country, even in public schools. Ford’s Theatre, the historic site of Abraham Lincoln’s murder…

To imitate the inimitable James Taranto: HA HA HA HA. Politico has cleared MSNBC host Alex Wagner of any conflict of interest stemming from her impending marriage to Sam Kaas, the Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move!" initiative. According to Politico's Dylan Byers [emphasis added], "We won't call this a conflict of interest because who doesn't love a man who can…

Liberals like to say that conservatives are behind the times...but 3,000 years behind? In a way, that's what the Daily Kos blogger who calls himself "waterstreet2013" asserted on Wednesday. The starting point for "waterstreet2013" was a theory proposed in 1976 by psychologist Julian Jaynes, who argued that until about 1000 BC, people routinely experienced and acted on auditory hallucinations…

Kudos to NPR All Things Considered anchor Robert Siegel, who on Thursday night pressed liberal Sen. Patty Murray to consider that perhaps Democrats might want to bend a little on Obamacare. He cited a Pew poll showing the partisan blame for a shutdown would be 39 percent Republican, 36 percent Democrat. But it really got amusing when Murray wouldn’t budge – in fact kvetched that Obamacare…

You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger cheerleader in media for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, than Ed Schultz. Hardly a day has passed in three years since the law was enacted that Schultz has not touted its magnificence on his radio show and cable program on MSNBC. Those familiar with Schultz's huff-and-puff shtick know that he's got another soft spot -- for…