Saturday Feel Good: 73-Year-Old Makes College Basketball Team

Stocks are tanking, the economy's a mess, and if you believe the polls, our great nation is going to head much further left in ten days: wouldn't you like something to smile about?Well, click on the embedded video to your right, and watch the heart-warming story of a 73-year-old man whose dream of returning to college basketball after more than five decades has come true thanks to the…
Noel Sheppard

Michelle Obama Gets A Halo Of Her Own

I guess it's not enough for Barack Obama to be regularly captured by photographers with a halo around him. Now, thanks to the Chicago Tribune, Michelle's got one, too (h/t NBer Dan Schwartz):
Noel Sheppard

LA Times Withholds Video of Obama Toasting Former PLO Operative at Jew

John Stephenson

Saddam-Boosting Congressman McDermott: Obama's Secretary of State

Tim Graham

MSM Ignores ACORN’s Intricate Web of Deceit and Unusual Financial Pr

The mainstream media is so in the tank for Barack Obama that only in the last few days has it begun to do some serious shoe-leather reporting and trace the connections between ACORN, Barack Obama, William Ayers, ACORN founder Wade Rathke and his embezzling brother Dale, the Weather Underground Organization, and the Democratic Party.The MSM is still largely downplaying Americans' justifiable fears…
Matthew Vadum

Great Opportunity for Center-Right Journalists

Part of the reason that liberal bias in the elite media exists is that not enough conservatives and libertarians decide to get involved in journalism, especially straight news reporting.One of the best organizations on the right trying to combat this is the Phillips Foundation which has a program that pays generous amounts of money to encourage people to get involved in producing high-quality…
Matthew Sheffield

ABC.com Writer 'Deeply Ashamed to be Called a “Journalist

Just how bad has the presidential campaign coverage been this year?So bad that popular online columnist Michael S. Malone, aka ABC.com's "Silicon Insider," wrote Friday, "I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a 'journalist.'” So strong were his words that they should be required reading for all the Obama-loving media members that have disgraced themselves as well as their industry this year,…
Noel Sheppard

Another Liberal Columnist Criticizes Capitalism

Who wrote the following?:"Societies in which the few are allowed to fatten themselves without limit on the labor of many are not just."A. Friedrich EngelsB. William AyersC. Michelle ObamaD. Timothy RuttenAny of the answers would make sense, but the headline kind of gave it away. It was Timothy Rutten of the LA Times who penned that immortal line in his column of today.  In doing so, Rutten echoes…
Mark Finkelstein

Weekend Sports Open Thread

NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: your call.
NB Staff

MSNBC/AP say Player Injury Palin's Fault

Well, that mean ol' Sarah Palin ruined everything for the St. Louis Blues hockey team, darn it all. That's right the media's newest Cheney replacement must have been planning this monstrous attack on the Blues' goalie for weeks. Her next trick: world domination. At least this seems to be how MSNBC and the Associated Press feel about it all. What am I talking about? Well, Palin visited the Blues…
Warner Todd Huston

CNN.com Hypes 'Three-Generation Republican' for Obama...Who Worked Dem

Tim Graham

Media Ignores Cornell Staffer & Dean Oppressing Student's Free Speech

Students that belong to a pro-life campus group called Cornell Coalition for Life (CCFL) spent weeks and hundreds of dollars organizing a pro-life display to be featured on the Cornell University Engineering Campus in Ithaca, New York. This was no guerilla campaign, either, because the CCFL applied for and received permission for its display. Yet, scarcely an hour had passed before an associate…
Warner Todd Huston

Joe Biden Angered by Tough Questions

"Are you joking?""I don't know who's writing your questions."Those were two of the angry responses by Joe Biden to a couple of tough questions posed by Barbara West on Orlando's WFTV (must-see video embedded right). You can get an idea of just how upset Biden was by reading the title of of this account of the heated interview: "Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden." Here…
P.J. Gladnick