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Excusing Wright, Part II: 'Latent Racism' Is Ruining An 'Incredible' M

Tim Graham

Excusing Wright, Part I: AIDS Conspiracy Theory a Media 'Red Herring

Tim Graham

PBS Talk: How the Patriot Act Has 'Crushed So Many People

Tim Graham

Reuters Hypes Hugo's Excellent Adventure in Marxist Farming

Leave it to Reuters in this April 29 article, to express surprise that Hugo Chavez' planned economy, complete with “land reform,” price controls and forced production, is failing. Even worse, reporter Frank Jack Daniels relied on a Marxist outlook and socialist jargon to pretend that those tired policies weren't to blam. Chavez wants to increase domestic food production; so, of course, the…
Lynn Davidson

Bush-Bashing Rapper Kanye West Tells Concert Critic 'Kill Yourself

Remember the high and mighty rapper named Kanye West who during a telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims in September 2005 had the nerve to say on national television "George Bush doesn't care about black people?"Well, the man media gushed over for weeks as a result of this disgraceful display apparently doesn't like receiving reviews of his concerts that give him anything less than an A-plus.As…
Noel Sheppard

Spike Lee Thinks Someone's Paying Wright to Bash Obama

What is it about Hollywoodans that makes so many of them believe that any time political leaders they revere get caught in a scandal, it's because of some vast conspiracy?While you ponder, consider how just days after "View" co-host Joy Behar suggested that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's pastor "might be being paid by the Republicans," film director Spike Lee said, "It looks like…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Captionfest II

Kenny Leitner of Grafton, IL mows what little grass isn't covered by Illinois River floodwaters (Alton Telegraph photo by John Badman)
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AP: ‘Conservative’ Christian's ‘Manifesto’ Has Few Conservativ

On May 2, the Associated Press uncritically reported that an effort to clarify where "evangelicals" stand in the culture/political war in America is soon to be released. It is to be called "An Evangelical Manifesto" and is touted by the AP as a statement by "evangelicals" that "faith is now too political." That isn't all. The AP is claiming that it isn't just Christian leaders in general that are…
Warner Todd Huston

Alter Suggests Only 'Stupid' Voters Want Gas Tax Cut

Brad Wilmouth

Moyers Defends Obama and Wright with Democrat Talking Points

Do my tax dollars really have to support the anti-American vitriol that comes out of the mouth of PBS's Bill Moyers every week?Before you answer, consider that the host of "Bill Moyers Journal" followed up last week's much publicized sycophantic lovefest with Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's America-hating pastor by going on a six minute defense of the junior senator from Illinois…
Noel Sheppard

Foto Funnies: 'Bring Back Global Warming

Despite all the global warming hysteria emanating from the usual media suspects and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, it's been a cold, harsh, long winter throughout most of America.Apparently, some of the citizens in the small, Idaho panhandle town of Craigmont are so fed up with the cold weather that they placed a request to "Bring Back Global Warming" on the marquee of their local high school.With this…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Sports Open Thread

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