CNN on HIV in Africa: Listen to the 'Experts,' Not the Pope

CNN’s Zain Verjee couldn’t seem to find any health care “experts” who agreed with Pope Benedict XVI during a report on Tuesday’s Situation Room about the “political firestorm” the pontiff apparently set off during his first visit to Africa. Verjee not only cited unnamed “experts” who disagreed with the pope’s statement that the distribution of condoms on the continent “increases the problem” of…
Matthew Balan
March 18th, 2009 2:22 PM

Ed Schultz on Card Check: Secret Ballot 'Sacred' in Elections - Unless

Jack Coleman
March 18th, 2009 2:12 PM

Dear WSJ: Market is Risk Regulator

Systemic risks are small when the market is free, voluntary and open to competition.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.
March 18th, 2009 2:04 PM

Obama s Media Strategy: Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and

BMI Staff
March 18th, 2009 2:00 PM

WaPo Loopy Labeling: 'Victims' Advocates' Oppose Gun Rights for Abuse

As veteran readers of NewsBusters know, a good deal of liberal media bias comes in subtle labeling and phrasing. Today's Washington Post provides an excellent example of just that in a Metro section article pitting "victims' advocates" against "gun rights advocates" in a story about new gun restrictions lobbied for by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) and approved by the Maryland House of Delegates.The…
Ken Shepherd
March 18th, 2009 12:23 PM

Attack Dogs? No, Democrats Walk the Dinosaur

Left and media go from post-partisan to Jurassic in less than two months.
Dan Gainor
March 18th, 2009 10:58 AM

Pants On Fire

Obama's big 5 percent lie.
Dan Kennedy
March 18th, 2009 10:53 AM

NewsBusters Talks to Senators Ensign and Thune About Budget

Senators John Ensign (R-Nev.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) participated in a blogger conference call on Monday.On the agenda was President Obama's 2010 budget proposal which Thune cautioned if enacted in its current form would double the federal debt in five years and triple it in ten.Those interested can listen to this fascinating discussion here (5.9 mb MP3).
Noel Sheppard
March 18th, 2009 10:48 AM

NBC/Wonkette Writer Praises Bush... for Refusing to Criticize Obama

Former President George W. Bush is a "classy guy" who might "mature into a proper elder statesman" some day.That's the verdict of NBC and Wonkette contributor Sara K. Smith in her March 18 article about how Bush refused to publicly criticize his successor to the presidency when given the chance at a Q&A session following at a luncheon in Canada. (h/t Twitter tipster @Thatcher):The one thing…
Ken Shepherd
March 18th, 2009 10:40 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
March 18th, 2009 10:34 AM

Global Warming Alarmist Irked by Cold Weather

Why, oh why, can't Mother Nature cooperate so we can promote our global warming agenda? That pretty much sums up the attitude of global warming alarmist and documentary filmmaker, Gabriel London. His frustration came about over the fact that lately the very cold weather we have been experiencing has made the public more skeptical than ever over global warming. London explains in his Huffington…
P.J. Gladnick
March 18th, 2009 8:49 AM

PC Police? Some Want St. Patrick's Day to Be 'Shamrock Day

Tim Graham
March 18th, 2009 7:43 AM

Kiss Me! I'm … an Obama

The Left is crazy over the sexy new first couple.
Erin Brown
March 18th, 2009 12:00 AM

Bozell Column: Congress and Excess

Brent Bozell
March 17th, 2009 11:11 PM