Deny This: Guess Who Has the Highest Medical Claim Rejection Rate

Oh, the establishment press will just loooooove this -- not. From BigGovernment.com (HT Mark Levin over the airwaves this evening): Beverly Gossage, Research Fellow for Show-Me Institute and founder of HSA Benefits Consulting wondered which insurance companies rejected the most claims. She found her answer in the AMA’s own 2008 National Health Insurer Report Card (fairly large PDF). I'm…
Tom Blumer

Rep. Michele Bachmann: 'I'm Certainly Not Going to Fear the Likes of K

Republican Minnesota congresswoman and constant target of MSNBC on-air personalities calls network 'irrelevant.'
Jeff Poor

Couric Relies on Albright to Blame Obama's Afghanistan Conundrum on Bu

On Monday's CBS Evening News, Katie Couric delivered a “How We Got Here” review of Afghanistan after eight years of U.S. troops on the ground, culminating with Couric conveying as fact -- based on the view of Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright -- the relatively simplistic liberal critique of how Iraq distracted the U.S. from the more important battle in Afghanistan. “…
Brent Baker

Matthews Cries: 'Orgiastic' Right Wing 'Roots Against America

Chris Matthews, on Monday’s "Hardball," accused the right wing of achieving an "orgiastic level" of excitement in its rooting against Barack Obama to deliver the Olympics to Chicago. Matthews, joined by the Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page and CNSNews.com’s very own Terry Jeffrey, opened his show by declaring that the "Right roots against America," as seen in the following opening:  CHRIS MATTHEWS…
Geoffrey Dickens

Beck Fires Back: Calls Series of Stories about Mother’s Suicide 'Des

Recently, the McClatchy-owned The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. and the left-leaning Salon.com ran stories questioning whether or not Glenn Beck's mother, Mary Beck committed suicide. It was later propagated by the left-wing storefronts. And, on Fox News Channel's Oct. 5 "Glenn Beck" program, Beck addressed that and some of the gripes he had about the media for not doing their job. "I tell you…
Jeff Poor

BMI’s Seymour: Reagan Treated 13 Times More Negatively on Jobs Than

BMI's Julia A. Seymour appeared on FNC's "America's News Headquarters" to discuss her latest report, "Networks Flip Flop on Jobs." During Seymour's Oct. 4 appearance, she told host Shannon Bream some of the findings of her report. "Let's talk about who was the president 26 years ago, Ronald Reagan. So how were his unemployment numbers, or what happened under his watch covered as compared…
NB Staff

CNN's Toobin Again Touts 'Very Conservative' vs 'Liberal' Supreme Cour

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin again turned to his usual labeling of the ideological split on the Supreme Court on Monday’s American Morning. Toobin labeled Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts “very conservative” three times, as opposed to the mere “liberal” justices on the Court. The analyst also bizarrely claimed that the “liberal side” of the body is “basically outnumbered.”Toobin…
Matthew Balan

Washington Post Says Health Care 'Rationing' Shouldn't be Dirty Word

Staff writer argues U.S. care delivered in 'haphazard, even illogical, way.'
Matt Philbin

CNBC Guest Says 47,000 Die Annually of Un-insurance

Former Clinton staffer uses dubious statistics to argue for ObamaCare.
Matt Philbin

'60 Minutes' Condemns Coal Industry, Misses Government Role in TVA Spi

Lesley Stahl attacks coal, tells industry lobbyist people don't 'trust' coal companies.
Julia A. Seymour

ABC’s Cokie Roberts on Polanski: As Far as I’m Concerned, Just

Longtime ABC journalist Cokie Roberts on Sunday harshly criticized fugitive director Roman Polanski, going so far as to joke, "As far as I’m concerned, just take him out and shoot him." Appearing on the internet-only segment of This Week, she bluntly stated, "But, Roman Polanski is a criminal. You know, he raped and drugged and raped and sodomized a child. And then was a fugitive from justice." …
Scott Whitlock

Time: Conservative Bible Project 'Insane' but 'Green Bible' Evangelica

A year ago Time magazine's David Van Biema wrote up a short, favorable take on the so-called Green Bible, an edition based on the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) that placed "green references" in "a pleasant shade of forest green, much as red-letter editions of the Bible encrimson the words of Jesus." But wait, there's more, The Green Bible also includes "supplementary writings" several of…
Ken Shepherd

Analyst: Oil at $55 Near-Term, $175 Long-Term

Deutsche Bank oil analyst marks a comeback of alarmingly high oil predictions.
Jeff Poor

CBS’s Schieffer: ‘World Did Not End’ After Obama’s Olympic Fai

In a display of the ever lowering standards by which the media judge Barack Obama’s presidency, on Sunday’s CBS Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer downplayed the President’s failed Olympic bid: “this is going to come as a surprise to some but the world did not end Friday....a lot of people thought it might if the President flew to Copenhagen and failed to bring home the Olympics.”       …
Kyle Drennen