Media Find ACORN’s Crack-Cocaine-for-Votes Scheme HILARIOUS

Shortly before Election Day 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that the far-left-leaning activist group ACORN gave crack cocaine to one of its Ohio workers in 2004 "in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey." Years later, when a conservative analyst mentioned it on…
Noel Sheppard

'Lifelong Democrat' Who Supports McCain Finally Found

Attention! Today is quite an historic day. At long last, a section of the media has discovered a "lifelong Democrat" who is supporting the Republican presidential candidate. As you might have noticed, this campaign season has seen a plethora of stories about "lifelong Republicans" who have finally "seen the light" and are supporting Barack Obama. Of course, such "lifelong Republicans" when you…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

NB Staff

Letter to The Wall Street Journal

A response to Andrew Wilson's op-ed "Five Myths About the Great Depression."
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

The World (And the Media) Awaits Barack Obama

Rusty Weiss

Buchanan: Immigration Will Prevent Pendulum From Swinging Back

Pat Buchanan just snatched the security blanket from conservatives and stomped on it. Contemplating the prospect of an electoral loss, some conservatives are consoling themselves by imagining that the political pendulum will soon start swinging back their way.Buchanan doesn't think so, and his very first words on the matter this morning explain why: "demography is destiny."  Buchanan offered his…
Mark Finkelstein

Palin Shows 'Culture War' Is Over

Tim Graham

ABC Shills for Same-Sex 'Marriage

Network continues pattern of one-sided coverage of homosexuality, with a segment favoring opponents of California's Proposition 8.
Colleen Raezler

CNN Host: GOP Palin Critics 'Intellectual,' Palin Backers 'Knuckle-Dra

Mike Malloy also described the GOP's social conservative base as crazy and mouth breathers.
Matthew Balan

Palin Exonerated in Troopergate Investigation

An independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board has determined that state prosecutor Steve Branchflower miscontrued evidence and applied the wrong state laws to determine that Sarah Palin abused her office by firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The report provides vindication for Sarah Palin who had claimed that Branchflower's investigation had been motivated by…
Terry Trippany

Couric to Obama: What Will African-American President 'Mean to You Per

Just as with all his previous interviews with the broadcast network anchors, Barack Obama had nothing to fear from his final pre-election sit-down, this time with CBS's Katie Couric, who laughed along with him about being a “nervous wreck” on election day, raised Jeremiah Wright not to press him about Wright's incendiary anti-American rants but to ask if the McCain campaign had given its “…
Brent Baker

Haley Makes Chris Concede on Obama Tax-Welfare Plan

If the Republicans had a few more spokesmen like Haley Barbour, the political landscape might look a lot different.  The Mississippi governor's down-home good humor and razor-sharp wit are a formidable combination. Barbour's killer combo of skills was on display on this evening's Hardball.  When Chris Matthews challenged his criticism of Obama's tax credit plan, Barbour good-naturedly backed him…
Mark Finkelstein

GOP Palin Critics ‘Intellectual,’ Palin Backers ‘Knuckle-Dragger

During a roundtable discussion on Monday’s Newsroom program with conservative talk show host Martha Zoller and her left-wing colleague Mike Malloy, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez strangely differentiated between "intellectual" conservatives who are "not so crazy" about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and social conservatives who "love" her. Sanchez then described Zoller as a "mix" of…
Matthew Balan

Brit Newspaper Performed Legwork US Media Neglected by Tracking Down

Once again it is the British newspapers that are performing the legwork that the American media oten neglects to do. In this case, it was the UK Times that tracked down Barack Obama's "Auntie Zeituni," not the "evil" Republicans as many Democrats are alleging. This is the story,  by Ben MacIntyre  and James Bone, of how they found Obama's aunt (emphasis mine): The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni…
P.J. Gladnick