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AP Feels Sorry for Mexico Over Drop in 'Money Sent Home' By Returning
I suppose the Associated Press wants us all to feel sorry for Mexico. With so many illegals here either having trouble finding work or actually returning home, Mexico is finding that its citizens illegally in the US have fewer American dollars to send home. AP says the "situation is so serious" that the Mexican government is trying to create new programs to reinforce ties between illegals here…
December 7th, 2008 3:38 AM
Walters Talks With 'Lovable Little Fuzzball' Rush Limbaugh
After reading my colleague Colleen Raezler's piece about Barbara Walters' interview with "harmless, lovable, little fuzzball" Rush Limbaugh, watch the video:
December 6th, 2008 11:28 PM
Sociology Prof's Solution To Detroit Meltdown: Unionize Toyota
Only a professor, preferably a sociology professor, one with way too much time on his hands, could have come up with this one. His solution to the Detroit crisis that has the Big Three automakers on the brink of bye-bye? Unionize their foreign competitors manufacturing in the USA!Now why didn't we think of that? Because we're not Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan…
December 6th, 2008 7:41 PM
Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread
Let's do it again. Here are the rules: suggested videos should be tasteful, unoffensive, and sent this evening to both Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@hotmail.com). Please don't link videos in the comments section, for we want all content to be filtered.The phone lines are open!Our first submission is an oldie but goodie courtesy LighthouseJ (embedded right,…
December 6th, 2008 6:19 PM
Military Report Questioning Global Warming Frightens Alarmists
If you needed any more proof climate alarmists are an extraordinarily deluded bunch that will do anything to protect their dogma, you got it Saturday when a 56-page report on military strategy incited ire because it included two paragraphs on global warming that don't perfectly fit Nobel Laureate Al Gore's agenda.In fact, all the brouhaha was largely about one sentence: "In many respects,…
December 6th, 2008 5:06 PM
Weekend Captionfest II
Then candidate Barack Obama listens to Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano during an economic discussion in June 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama recently named Napolitano head of the Dept. of Homeland Security.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jeff Haynes)
December 6th, 2008 2:08 PM
Urban Gun Crime Partially the Fault of 'The South': AP
Attention, y'all in the South: Urban crime is partly your fault.You see, if you didn't own so many guns, you wouldn't have so many of them stolen or sold at gun shows. Right now, those evil guns cross state lines and get used to commit crimes in urban areas.Got that?I know all of this because the Associated Press's Seanna Adcox, acting as a mouthpiece for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has told…
December 6th, 2008 9:53 AM
Collins: Palin a 'Moose-Murderer
Though O.J. Simpson was sentenced for robbery and related crimes yesterday, thirteen years ago he walked on a double-murder charge. That might be an isolated case, but Gail Collins apparently believes there are tens of millions of murderers roaming free in America. We call them by a different name: hunters.Collins made her inane hunting = murder analogy in her column today in the course of…
December 6th, 2008 7:32 AM
Angst on PBS Over Too-Long Wait for Obama's Inauguration
In the midst of a discussion about President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill on Friday night's program sought confirmation for her theory that “what people are beginning to say is that this President-elect should be President now” as “people are saying why isn't Barack Obama leading the fight about the auto-makers?” New York Times reporter Peter Baker…
December 5th, 2008 9:29 PM