Ignorance, Stupidity, or Connivance

President Barack Obama has called for a luxury tax on corporate jets as a means to generate revenue to fight federal deficits. The president's economic advisers ought to be fired for not telling him that doing so is unwise and counterproductive. They might have already told him so, only to have the president say, "Look, I know you're right, but I'm exploiting the public's envy of the rich!" Let…
Walter E. Williams
August 10th, 2011 5:25 PM

Mr. Green Jobs Boondoggle Rides Again

Van Jones, President Obama's disgraced green jobs czar, is back with a radical progressive plan to rescue America ... from his old boss. The problem, posits Jones, is that his fellow community organizer in the White House hasn't spent enough, regulated enough or taxed enough to achieve their perverse version of the "American Dream." What the country needs to "get the economy back on track,"…
Michelle Malkin
August 10th, 2011 5:20 PM

NBC Pushes Obama From Left, Worries Liberals Are Growing 'Angry' and

At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: "President Obama faces new criticism from members of his own party, is he doing enough to manage the [economic] crisis?...Should he, for example, demand that Congress cut short its summer vacation to address the situation?" In the segment that followed, the headline on screen read: "Dems Urge Obama to Get Tough With GOP &…
Kyle Drennen
August 10th, 2011 5:08 PM

WaPo Hails New Trucking Regs, Insists Industry & Enviros Both Happy, L

Washington Post staffer Juliet Eilperin portrayed proposed new federal regulations on heavy-duty trucks and buses as having hearty agreement by both environmentalists and trucking industry lobbyists. Unfortunately Eilperin left out the dissenting remarks of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), which blasted the rule change as harmful to the small-business truckers it…
Ken Shepherd
August 10th, 2011 4:45 PM

CNN Politics Reports 'Republicans Name Fiscal Conservatives to Debt Co

Today CNN's Politics Web site carries the story "Republicans name fiscal conservatives to debt committee," written by Deirdre Walsh and Tom Cohen.  The piece begins: "Republican leaders on Wednesday named fiscal conservatives for their six picks for a new congressional "super" committee charged with crafting a plan to cut the country's deficit." OK, the GOP's selections would be seen by…
Mike Bates
August 10th, 2011 4:42 PM

Congressman Calls for Investigation Into White House Aid to Bin Laden

Is the Obama Administration inappropriately disclosing classified data to movie producers in the hopes of getting a film about the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden released before the 2012 election? That is the question that Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is asking after word got out that the White House is giving inside information about the military raid that killed bin Laden…
Matthew Sheffield
August 10th, 2011 4:05 PM

Media Attacks on Conservative Women Just Keep Coming

Unflattering Newsweek Queen of Rage Bachmann cover is latest character assassination.
Erin Brown
August 10th, 2011 3:35 PM

Showtime Adds Blasphemy to Series Glorifying Serial Killer

Showtime's TV series "Dexter," whose sympathetic portrayal of a serial killer already plumbs the depths of depravity, managed to sink to a new low by adding blasphemy to its formula of grisly vigilante murder. Two promotional videos released by Showtime, previewing Season 6 of "Dexter," mingled sacred images with the show's recurring theme of vigilante murder. The first video (cynically…
Paul Wilson
August 10th, 2011 1:37 PM

Did CNN's Piers Morgan Forget About U.S. Military Action In Libya

While Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was calling for troop withdrawal in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for that military spending to go to deficit reduction, CNN's Piers Morgan would not press him about U.S. military action in Libya – a decision authorized by Democrat President Obama. Frank has been a champion of cutting the defense budget and continued his screed Tuesday night, calling for a $200…
Matt Hadro
August 10th, 2011 1:15 PM

Rick Santelli Rips CNBC Guest For Calling Tea Partiers 'Freaked Out Wh

Banking analyst Meredith Whitney made a big mistake on CNBC Wednesday calling Tea Party members "freaked out white men who are unemployed" when Rick Santelli was about to come on the program. Not surprisingly, Santelli after his pre-market interview with Steve Liesman went right after Whitney's foolish comments even making it personal (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 10th, 2011 12:54 PM

Bachmann Is Latest Target in Media's War on Conservative Women

Liberal bias is rampant among the media, but there is no more tangible example of it than in how the media treat Conservative women. The most recent cover of Newsweek features a very wide-eyed Michele Bachmann, looking surprised and unattractive. Perhaps more disturbing is the caption Newsweek placed below the presidential candidate's photo: "Queen of Rage." Bachmann, an attractive 55 year-…
Erin R. Brown
August 10th, 2011 12:35 PM

ABC Ignores Failure of $14 Million Effort by Liberals to Recall Wiscon

ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday ignored the $14 million failure of labor and liberal groups to win back the state senate in Wisconsin through a recall vote. Both CBS's Early Show and NBC's Today covered the effort to retaliate against that state's legislation stripping collective bargaining rights for public workers. Early Show's Elaine Quijano covered the story in a full report (…
Scott Whitlock
August 10th, 2011 12:06 PM

Newsweek's Tina Brown Offers No Apology, Doubles Down on 'Crazy' Bachm

Newsweek editor Tina Brown defended her magazine's controversial cover portraying Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) as the "Queen of Rage" on the August 10 edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," offering no apology since the three-term congresswoman could become America's first "crazy" president. "Some people look at this picture and think, you know, Michele Bachmann looks crazy," remarked Brown. "…
Alex Fitzsimmons
August 10th, 2011 12:05 PM

Soros-Funded Media Toe Liberal Line in Debt Coverage

Coverage of the debt battle and ratings downgrade by Soros-funded media outlets followed the standard liberal line. Conservatives are blamed for blocking tax hikes, the ratings agency itself is called unreliable, and increased financial regulations are called for. Forget the House proposal of Cut Cap and Balance. Further spending cuts aren't even given the time of day among top Soros-funded…
Iris Somberg
August 10th, 2011 11:42 AM