Cal Thomas Column: Four More Years... of Decline
Great nations and proud empires have always collapsed from within before they were conquered from without.
President Obama's re-election mirrors the self-indulgent, greedy and envious nation we are rapidly becoming.
Pollsters Michael Barone and Dick Morris got it horribly wrong. Both predicted a 300 electoral-vote win for Romney. It was President Obama who reached that mark.
November 12th, 2012 4:49 PM

CBS Touts GOP Talk of Benghazi 'Coverup,' Notes Petraeus Promoted 'Spo
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Sharyl Attkisson filed a hard-hitting report on the possible ties between former CIA chief David Petraeus's resignation and the continuing controversy over the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Attkisson spotlighted how Petraeus told several members of Congress that "video of the Benghazi attack supports an element of spontaneity, as the…
November 12th, 2012 4:47 PM
Bob Tyrrell Jr. Column: Setting Our Sights on
Jimmy Carter is redeemed! The grinning dunce of yesteryear, who grew into the anile doddering figure of today, lecturing the civilized on all manner of statecraft, has been replaced by the saturnine gaunt prophet, Barack Obama. His sorry performance these past four years he lays to the administration of George W. Bush. The next four years will be a replay of the last four years, and an even…
November 12th, 2012 4:39 PM

On PBS and NPR, Liberals Agree With David Brooks: They'll Jump Off Fis
Last Friday, in his first post-election remarks on PBS and NPR, New York Times columnist David Brooks downplayed his usual bash- conservatives narrative, and actually castigated liberals for wanting to go over the looming fiscal cliff. He said that liberals are more organized, they’ve won the election, and will get most of what they yearn for if we do go over the waterfall: increased revenue…
November 12th, 2012 4:30 PM

Cramer Says Recession by Christmas if Fiscal Cliff Not Resolved
'Mad Money' host tells 'Meet the Press' that without a deal, businesses will lay off workers.
November 12th, 2012 4:29 PM

Oliver Stone Teams with History Prof for 10-hour Doc on Henry Wallace
It's hard to imagine a major newspaper according Style section coverage to a 10-part documentary that was the brainchild of a conservative filmmaker with a penchant for conspiracy theories. But a left-winger, that's a different story. The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday today gave readers of the paper a 12-paragraph puff piece about "Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States" which…
November 12th, 2012 4:08 PM

Fareed Zakaria Cheers Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage, Marijuana
No surprise here, but CNN's Fareed Zakaria cheered the states that legalized same-sex marriage and marijuana on his Sunday CNN show, lauding it "a picture of America at its best, edgy, experimental, open-minded and brilliantly diverse."
Zakaria also noted exit polls favoring amnesty for illegal immigrants. "I hesitate to build a grand narrative out of all this, but the trend seems to be…
November 12th, 2012 4:01 PM

'Meet the Press': Todd and Kearns-Goodwin Advise Obama to Put Pressure
Sounding more like a Democratic strategist on Sunday's Meet the Press than NBC's political director, Chuck Todd urged President Obama to force congressional Republicans into a corner on the fiscal cliff: "...go do it with 65-70 members of the Senate, cut the deal, bring it over to the House....box Boehner in....did the President learn anything from his first term about how to deal with…
November 12th, 2012 2:38 PM
CBS's Nancy Giles: Whites Oppose Abortion 'To Build Up the Race
Wow!
On MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show Saturday, CBS's Nancy Giles said the reason white people are "trying to eliminate all these abortions" is "to build up the race" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, file photo):
November 12th, 2012 2:18 PM
MSNBC's Chris Jansing: 'Parallels' Between Lincoln and Reelected Obama
MSNBC host Chris Jansing on Monday found the "parallels" between Abraham Lincoln and the newly reelected Barack Obama to be "fascinating." The anchor interviewed Gloria Reuben, liberal actress and co-star of the just-released Steven Spielberg biography of the 16th president. Jansing compared, "...You have a president who is newly elected, who faces a divided divided Congress and a divided…
November 12th, 2012 12:23 PM

NBC's Matt Lauer Almost Calls Him David 'Betray Us
Remember back in September 2007 when the far-left MoveOn.org created a firestorm with an ad placed at the New York Times headlined "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?"
NBC's Matt Lauer apparently does, for on Monday's Today show, he asked guest Newt Gingrich, "Did David Betray, Petraeus do the right thing by resigning?" (video follows with commentary):
November 12th, 2012 12:12 PM

Phillips Foundation Fellowships Present Opportunity for Aspiring Conse
Part of the reason that liberal bias in the elite media exists is that not enough conservatives and libertarians decide to get involved in journalism, especially straight news reporting.
One of the best organizations on the right trying to combat this is the Phillips Foundation which has a program that pays generous amounts of money to encourage people to get involved in producing high-…
November 12th, 2012 12:09 PM

It's Science! CNN Psychoanalyzes Conservatives, 'More Sensitive to Fea
No wonder why CNN's ratings are low – they're diagnosing a large part of their potential audience with a disorder. A CNN guest "expert" said conservatives' brains are more susceptible to fear and claimed many are suffering from "post-election stress disorder" brought on in part by the conservative media.
"And the amygdala, the region of the brain that processes fear was much larger in people…
November 12th, 2012 11:24 AM

NBC Can't Wait for Hillary in 2016: 'Can You Think of a More Qualified
During a discussion on Monday, NBC's Today show crew could barely contain their enthusiasm at the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for president again in 2016, with new third-hour co-host Willie Geist proclaiming: "Can you think of a more qualified human being? She lived in the White House for eight years with another President, she was a United States senator, and now she's got every world…
November 12th, 2012 10:55 AM