Helen Thomas: Revoking Honorary Degrees a Violation of 'Freedom of Spe

Someone should inform Helen Thomas that the First Amendment does not protect one's right to honorary degrees. The disgraced former White House correspondent lashed out at her critics Tuesday, and stood by her vicious anti-Semitic remarks - both her most recent claims that "Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists" and the remarks that led to her…
Lachlan Markay

Time.com Highlights 'Ultra-Gay Hotel' Trend

With a brief 8-paragraph article, Time.com's David Kaufman today approvingly explored the trend of 'ultra-gay hotels":
Ken Shepherd

The Times Finally Slips in Some Unflattering Facts About 'Dream Act' A

Wait: I thought this was just about high school students? Julia Preston belatedly reports some of the actual features of the "Dream Act" amnesty program: "The lead sponsor of the Senate bill, Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, made changes to it in an effort to attract more votes, lowering the maximum age for eligibility to 29 from 35, and tightening the exclusion of immigrants with…
Clay Waters

Islamophobia-obsessed Media Silent on Anti-Semitic 'Hate Crimes' at In

Most Americans are probably unaware that Jews were the victims of more than eight times as many anti-religion hate crimes last year as were Muslims. And the reason is simple: anti-Muslim crimes receive far more media attention. Case in point: the media has been all but silent on a slew of anti-Semitic acts of vandalism at Indiana University, coinciding with the beginning of the celebration of…
Lachlan Markay

On NPR, N.Y. Times Editor Bill Keller Defends the 'Value' of WikiLeaks

On NPR's weekend show On The Media (produced by radio station WNYC), New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller reacted badly to NPR's Bob Garfield suggesting Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was a "looter" or a smasher of windows. Keller insisted the document dump has "more value" than that metaphor, that the dump is "absolutely fascinating...like a graduate seminar" on international relations. …
Tim Graham

Unhappy With Tax Compromise, George Stephanopoulos Scolds David Axelro

Apparently unhappy at the idea of a compromise with Republicans over taxes, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday attacked the deal from the left, wondering if the "White House [is] open to renegotiating" portions that have made liberals in Congress unhappy. Stephanopoulos, a former aide to Democrat Dick Gephardt, highlighted Nancy Pelosi's opposition to a high exemption…
Scott Whitlock

Vieira to Axelrod on Tax Cut Deal: 'Why Shouldn't Americans Look At Th

NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Wednesday's Today show, hit David Axelrod repeatedly from the left as she lectured the White House senior adviser that the left is "furious" at Barack Obama for making a deal with the GOP on tax cuts as she pressed: "Why shouldn't Americans look at this as a disaster in the making?" During a segment headlined: "Tax Cut Compromise: Did President Go Too Far In…
Geoffrey Dickens

Maureen Dowd: The Caribou Palin Shot on TLC is Obama

Watching liberal media members agonize over the former governor shooting and eating a caribou on Sunday's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" is becoming a spectator sport. Consider New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who is so angered by this hunting display she's actually seeing it as a political allegory with Palin's felled prey being the current White House resident:
Noel Sheppard

Small-Biz Killers: Who Pays for Jobless Benefits

There is no such thing as a "free" government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits. While politicians in Washington negotiate a deal to provide welcome temporary payroll, income and estate tax relief to America's workers, struggling employers wonder how long they'll have to pay for the compassion of others — and whether they can…
Michelle Malkin

Elites Should Blame Selves, Not Obama, for Believing His Messianic Pre

Have you noticed among the Obama-supporting elite a desperate agony upon realizing that he is not quite the messiah he made himself out to be and as which they willingly embraced him? Many leftists are disgusted with Obama for supposedly betraying the cause on a number of issues, which tells us how irredeemably liberal they are. But their sense of betrayal runs deeper than ideology.
David Limbaugh

Networks Offer Scant Coverage of Liberal DREAM Act, Frothed Over Arizo

For much of the spring and summer, the big broadcast networks threw staff and airtime at covering Arizona's attempt to control its borders against rampant illegal immigration. Liberals detested Arizona's "harsh" new law, so the media elite reflexively treated it as a scandal in their coverage.   But now, Congress is debating a liberal immigration plan, the so-called "DREAM Act," that would…
Scott Whitlock

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Compares Palin to Michael Vick: She Makes Sn

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of "West Wing" and "Social Network" fame thinks Sarah Palin killing and eating a caribou in her TLC show is akin to Michael Vick promoting dog fights. In a piece published Wednesday at Huffington Post, Sorkin also wrote of the former Alaska governor, "I don't watch snuff films and you make them":
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread: House GOP Leaders Back Bachus, Rogers, Upton for Key Chai

Conservatives are up in arms this morning over reports that the House Republican Steering Committee have backd three moderate Congressmen for key chairmanships. In doing so, as the Daily Caller reported Wednesday, GOP leaders have bucked a number of key conservative groups who had cried foul over the three congressmen's spotty records on big issues. The Republican Steering Committee backed…
NB Staff

Rates Unchanged, Yet CBS Insists ‘Battle Over Tax Cuts’ Means ‘C

Matching the distortion documented in a MRC study posted Tuesday, though under the Obama-congressional GOP compromise income tax rates will remain unchanged for all, fill-in CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor introduced a story by characterizing a “battle over tax cuts” and how at a White House news conference President Obama “said agreeing to cuts for high-income earners was the only way to get…
Brent Baker