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Chuck Norris for American Solutions: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
With oil prices approaching $150 a barrel, and gas now over $4 a gallon (approaching $5 where I live!), Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future has launched a campaign to force Congress to reconsider current policies that prevent our nation from drilling for oil within its borders and territorial waters:As gas prices continue to increase, Congress continues to blame others while…
Olbermann and HuffPo Editor Square Off on Couric and Anti-Hillary Bias
It seems not everyone in the liberal blogosphere is smitten with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.Take for example Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar who on Thursday called out the insufferably arrogant and pompous "Countdown" host for naming CBS's Katie Couric his "Worst Person in the World" previously reported by NewsBuster Brad Wilmouth:Olbermann accused Couric of taking out of "context" comments by…
Vanity Fair's Blog Map
Here's an interesting little experiment from Vanity Fair: A guide to the blogosphere that isn't broken down by left and right but by news/opinion and high/low-brow.Click image above to view it. You'll find NewsBusters around the middle of the right side. The descriptions skew leftward as you might expect from VF, but the chart itself is pretty accurate. Your thoughts?Hat tip: Matt Lewis.
Weekend Sports Open Thread
A very active sports weekend ahead of us:Tiger on the prowl at Torrey Pines: Can he really win his first tournament after rehab? Did the Celtics show Thursday night that they are just flat out the better team, and it's time to stick a fork in the Lakers?Have you caught the baseball bug yet?What are you looking for at racetracks in Michigan and Kentucky?After demolishing Federer at Roland Garros…
AP CPI Story Paints Gloom and Doom; Market Reaction Is Opposite
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger got out the gloom-and-doom paint in his report on the Consumer Price Index on Friday morning. Here are his opening paragraphs: Inflation rate jumps by biggest amount in 6 months Inflation shot up in May at the fastest pace in six months, pushed higher by soaring costs for gasoline and other types of energy. The Labor Department reported Friday that…
Goldberg Recalls Russert's Call for Newsroom Ideological Diversity
Appearing by phone on Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg recalled for fill-in host Laura Ingraham how Tim Russert recognized there should be more to newsroom diversity than just diversity by gender and skin tone, that “you need ideological diversity.” Goldberg, who departed CBS News a few years after he pointed out their liberal bias, lamented: I…
CNN’s Roland Martin: ‘Idiot Democrats’ Behind Michelle Obama Rum
CNN contributor Roland Martin, a known Barack Obama sympathizer, surprisingly isn’t buying the argument that conservatives/Republicans are behind the rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" comment. During a segment on Thursday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," substitute anchor Campbell Brown asked Martin, "Republicans have made it clear, pretty much, that Michelle is fair game here. Are you surprised by the…
USA Today Cover Story Down on Drilling, Up on Alternative Fuels to Eas
Sidebars on solutions to high gas prices paint rosy picture for unproven gasoline substitutes and make drilling not seem worthwhile.