Newsweek Anoints Squishy Methodist as New Kind of Evangelical on Abort

Finding Christian leaders concerned with global climate change is one thing, but it's hard for the secular media to find an evangelical Christian who can assent to one of the Left's most favored sacraments, abortion.That's where Newsweek's Lisa Miller comes in finding a new challenge to the traditionally pro-life political views of evangelical Christians. Miller invites readers to meet Adam…
Ken Shepherd
 

Some Muckraker: NYT Reporter Opposes Corruption Investigation of Alaba

Clay Waters
 

FNC Cancels John Gibson's 'Big Story

Fox News has canceled its long-running show "The Big Story:"Fox News Channel, tinkering for the first time in eight years with its popular early evening lineup, is replacing its 5 p.m. news broadcast, "The Big Story," with an election-theme program for the foreseeable future. The network confirmed this week that "America's Election HQ," a program that displaced "The Big Story" temporarily last…
Matthew Sheffield
 

'60 Minutes' Attacks Sovereign Wealth Funds with Unlikely Scenarios

Panicky protectionists are predicting some unsavory possibilities for the U.S. economy thanks to emerging foreign economies with newly created wealth to invest. Although they're unlikely possibilities, CBS's April 6 "60 Minutes" delved into the potential threat one Chinese sovereign wealth fund might pose to the American economy. "All together, the sovereign wealth funds of countries like Abu…
Jeff Poor
 

'View' Co-Hosts Compare Jeremiah Wright to Martin Luther King

Justin McCarthy
 

'60 Minutes' Scaremongers for Protectionism on Foreign Investment

Report views foreign investment in U.S. as dangerous rather than a sign of economy's profitability.
Jeff Poor
 

Gainor in IBD: Journalists Contribute to Economic Pessimism

Nathan Burchfiel
 

Schultz Defends His ‘McCain is a Warmonger’ Comment on CNN

Liberal talk show host Ed Schultz, appearing on Monday’s "American Morning" on CNN, defended his labeling of John McCain as a "warmonger" at a recent Obama campaign fundraiser, despite the statement being repudiated by Obama’s campaign. Twice, Schultz stated that "the man [McCain] is a warmonger" and used the term a total of five times during the course of the interview. Not only did Schultz…
Matthew Balan
 

CBS’s Logan Quotes Eyewitness on Iraq Violence: ‘Everything Was De

In a news brief on Monday’s CBS "Early Show" correspondent Lara Logan reported on recent violence in Baghdad as a result of militia forces of Muqtada al Sadr: "The streets of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad have become a bloody battleground...This eyewitness describing the fighting on his street says 'one person was killed, and a child was also killed there. Everything got burned up. Everything was…
Kyle Drennen
 

Reuters Anti-Gun Story With Misleading Photo

Reuters highlights a great little tale filled with anti-gun bias and bad reporting, all topped with an extremely misleading photo that presents a wonderful example of biased "reporting" at its worst. The story is about a German man who was "crowded out of his home" by his gun collection but the photo is of a gun store display in America. What the two have to do with each other is anybody's guess…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: debasing the Olympic torch:The Olympic torch has had to be extinguished three times amid protests by anti-China demonstrators in Paris.Is this getting out of hand, or an appropriate protest? Have China's actions tarnished this year's Games, and diminished your interest? Does this have the potential of becoming 1980 all over again?
NB Staff
 

AP Report on VA Waste Reflects Misplaced Priorities

The Associated Press's out-of-whack news priorities and seemingly boundless determination to distort never cease to amaze. Hope Yen's Sunday report on VA credit-card charges is yet more evidence that the wire service has lost its way. The beginning of Yen's report is so typical, and so misleading: Investigators Review VA Credit Charges WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs employees last year…
Tom Blumer
 

Global Warming Activist Pressures BBC to Significantly Alter Article

NewsBusters has just learned that a British "climate activist" was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its "Global Temperatures 'To Decrease'" article last Friday.As reported Sunday, the third paragraph of what previously had been a very balanced piece about how global temperatures have been declining since 1998 was totally reworded in order to make the report just another…
Noel Sheppard
 

BMI’s Gainor: ‘Maybe We’re Using Too Much Government Interventio

Nathan Burchfiel