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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: How's that global warming thing treating you?Here in Northern California, it's 35 degrees this morning. On April 16! My pool is currently 55 degrees. Normally at this time of the year, it would be at least 70.In fact, this will be the latest in the year we'll be able to go into our pool since we moved into this home in 1999. This normally…
Scarborough: MSM Talks 'Litmus Test' Only Regarding Pro-Life Republica
During Morning Joe's opening segment today, Joe Scarborough, in an apparent allusion to the ambitions Chris Matthews has expressed, facetiously wondered whether the panel should start calling the Hardball host "Senator." But just a bit later, Scarborough seized on a question Matthews posed to John McCain yesterday to illustrate a classic bit of MSM bias: the way the liberal media only speak of a…
CNN's 'Compassion' Forum Needed Ben Stein
Why didn't Campbell Brown and Jon Meacham ask the tough questions?
CosmoGirl! as a Religious Guide? Hardly
Article discusses religion without a clear understanding of what religion really is.
NBC: Tax Cuts Mean McCain's Economic Plan 'Doesn't Add Up
Network journalists have yet to meet a spending hike or regulation that they considered unwise, but any tax cut is always ill-advised and helps “the wealthy.” Living up to the pattern -- and illustrating how John McCain will earn media scorn for any conservative policy proposal -- NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams set up a Tuesday story on McCain's economic plan by emphasizing how “some…
Even in Puff Piece, Today Article Brings Up Bush Twin's 2001 Law Brush
So I'm reading what is supposed to be a puff piece by Mike Celizic in the Today Show section at MSNBC about Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding to Henry Hager on May 10. It seems to do a serviceable job of describing their upcoming nuptials, what the attendants will wear, where it will be (an informal affair at the Bush family Crawford, Texas ranch), where they met, where he proposed. All nice stuff.…
16-Year-Old Climate Realist Kristen Byrnes Interviewed By NPR
Almost a year ago, NewsBusters introduced readers to Kristen Byrnes, a 15-year-old Portland, Maine, student that marvelously took on the so-called global warming consensus, as well as some of its strongest proponents such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and NASA's James Hansen.At the time, Kristen was being invited by all kinds of media…
Questions Stephanopoulos Should Ask Clinton and Obama Wednesday
The Democrat presidential candidates are squaring off against one another Wednesday in Philadelphia, and, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos thinks this could decide the nomination:"There hasn't been a debate in weeks and the stakes couldn't be higher, there's no question about that," he said. "That's especially true for Sen. Clinton. Pennsylvania is a…
NYT Editorial: Fool Taxpayers, Hide Taxes Behind New Name 'Dues
Well, it's April 15th and we all know what that means. It's tax day, the day when we must pay tribute to the Lords in Washington. And on that day, The New York Times published a new spendaholic, high taxing idea to fool America's taxpayers into accepting more tax by pretending it is something else. Stuffed with bad historic interpretation, Republican slamming, and typical old style Stalinist…
Krugman Comes Clean After Recycling Story His Own Paper Debunked
It has to be tough advocating an ideology that requires seeking out things that are bad in American society. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman found one very heartbreaking story Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton had been using on the campaign and used it in the lede of his April 11 column. Unfortunately for Krugman it wasn't quite accurate. Even worse, his own paper was one…