TIME Contributor Slams 'Rebel Pastors' For Transgressing 501(c)3 Limit

Pastors -- almost all of them conservative Christian ones -- who participated in "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" on October 7 are not free-speech crusaders but rather simply "rebels" against sensible U.S. tax policy, Yale law professor Adam Cohen complained in an October 16 TIME Ideas blog post. Cohen groused that The participants are trying to bait the IRS into coming after them so they can mount a…
Ken Shepherd
October 16th, 2012 11:55 AM

Honey Boo Boo Endorses Obama

The election’s over, ladies and gentlemen. On Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Alana Thompson, the star of TLC's runaway hit Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, officially endorsed Barack Obama (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 16th, 2012 11:16 AM

Laura Ingraham: Obama Can Play Angry Birds on iPhone Tonight and Media

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham doesn't think the liberal media's bar is very high for Barack Obama to get wildly favorable reviews after Tuesday's upcoming presidential debate with Mitt Romney. Appearing on Fox & Friends early Tuesday morning, Ingraham said, "He can sit there playing Angry Birds on his iPhone and I think they’ll go, 'Oh wow, masterful performance'" (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
October 16th, 2012 10:16 AM

Open Thread Tuesday

Discuss the news of the day and anything else here. Obviously a lot of pre-gaming before the presidential debate going on today. But many people don't like the townhall format. What is your opinion on townhall versus traditional debate moderation?
NB Staff
October 16th, 2012 10:14 AM

Breaking: Another Green Company (Which Received $249 Million in Govt

(See Updates re President Obama's statement in 2010 and money the State of Michigan flushed down the drain.) Eric Savitz at Forbes relays news this morning that "A123 Systems has filed for bankruptcy protection in federal court ... Late yesterday, the battery company had warned that it was about to default on several loan issues, noting that a bankruptcy filing was a possibility; but it still…
Tom Blumer
October 16th, 2012 9:49 AM

MRC Study: By 2-to-1 Margin, Journalists Favor Liberal Questions at To

Tonight’s town hall-style presidential debate will ostensibly feature questions from undecided voters, but the evening’s agenda will really be decided by the moderator, as CNN’s Candy Crowley will select which of the more than roughly 80 voters in the room will actually get a chance to talk to the candidates. Reviewing the five previous town hall debates, the journalist-moderators have tended…
Rich Noyes
October 16th, 2012 8:14 AM

New York Times Columnists Kristof, Krugman Agree: Repealing Obama-Care

Two New York Times's liberal columnists are agreed: Repealing Obama-care would have a massive body count. Paul Krugman (pictured) wished readers a happy Monday with his cheerfully titled column "Death by Ideology." Mitt Romney doesn’t see dead people. But that’s only because he doesn’t want to see them; if he did, he’d have to acknowledge the ugly reality of what will happen if he and Paul…
Clay Waters
October 16th, 2012 7:57 AM

Is Al Gore Proud He Made TV Safe for Stephanie Miller's Playground Tau

In his book The Assault on Reason, Al Gore lamented "The world of television ... makes it virtually impossible for individuals to take part in what passes for a national conversation.” Now his channel, Current TV, is the home of juvenile playground talk. On Friday after the vice presidential debate, Current host Stephanie Miller cracked, “Can you imagine him as President, Paul Ryan? He looked…
Tim Graham
October 16th, 2012 7:17 AM

At AP, the Big Issue About Benghazi Is 'About the Quality of U.S. Inte

Early this afternoon, as part of the wire service's continuing "Why It Matters" series, the Associated Press's Eileen Sullivan boiled down the impact of the September 11 Benghazi, Libya attack during which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed and the U.S. consulate destroyed as follows: It "injected the issue of diplomatic security into the presidential…
Tom Blumer
October 15th, 2012 10:34 PM

One Aspect of Springsteen's Obama Campaign Involvement Which Will Like

The Left and the establishment press (but I repeat myself) are taking heart in the fact that Bruce Springsteen has agreed to campaign for Barack Obama in Ohio and Iowa later this week. The campaign of Mitt Romney, and Republicans in general, are the ones who should be cheered by this development for two reasons. One of them, which is being reported, is that Springsteen said earlier this year…
Tom Blumer
October 15th, 2012 8:35 PM

Raddatz is So Dreamy, She Oughta Be President ... Maddow Reveals New C

Smoking-gun evidence that ABC's Martha Raddatz was a biased moderator in the vice presidential debate -- Rachel Maddow is gushing about her. On her MSNBC show Friday night, Maddow went so far as to suggest that Raddatz was worthy of the presidency (video after page break) --
Jack Coleman
October 15th, 2012 8:11 PM

Michelle Malkin: The Deadly Disgrace of Obama's Pro-Terrorist Lawyers

October 12 marks the 12th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. The grim milestone comes as President Obama faces mounting questions about his administration's dereliction of duty during the murderous attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. And it comes just a day after resurgent al-Qaida thugs pulled off the drive-by assassination of a top Yemeni security official who worked at the U…
Michelle Malkin
October 15th, 2012 5:54 PM

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Column: The Essential Obama

Well, apparently I am not crazy after all. The polls have caught up with me, and they—apres le debat—are coming around to my point of view. Governor Mitt Romney is ahead in the race for the White House, and he will probably be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2013. I have been saying it for weeks, recognizing that the polls are weighted too heavily toward the Democratic candidate,…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
October 15th, 2012 5:48 PM

Alan Colmes Fail: Record Shows CNN Candy Crowley Is No Republican

Of the four liberal-media moderators selected by both parties at the Commission for Presidential Debates, CNN's Candy Crowley is the fairest. She's a longtime political-news pro, but that doesn't mean that in her long tenure at CNN, she doesn't have a "paper trail" (video trail) of liberal bias. On Fox News this afternoon, James Pinkerton cited MRC’s research [see below] and said “I think…
Tim Graham
October 15th, 2012 5:45 PM