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Have a look at the screencap from today's This Week, then please answer this serious question: has ABC no shame? How does the network justify a round-table consisting of four liberals against one conservative?Let's review the batting order:Robert Reich: Clinton's former Labor Secretary comes from the leftward reaches of the Dem party. He's a co-founder of the liberal American Prospect magazine.…

It is so easy to get sucked in by context-free negativity, isn't it?If you looked at the home page of the New York Times a couple of hours ago, these items you would have among those seen in the (appropriately) far-left column: In This Shiite Battle, a Marked Shift From the Past (article link)Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids (article link) Top-of-hour network radio reports…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: new powers to be given to the Federal Reserve in order to solve the current and prevent future financial crises (paragraph break removed):A plan set for release Monday would give new powers to the Federal Reserve so that the central bank serves as the system's overarching protector of stability. The proposal would abolish agencies such as…

Mort Kondracke got one thing right: Rush Limbaugh would go Krakatoa . . . The resident moderate of The Beltway Boys has counseled John McCain to offer the VP slot to Christie Todd Whitman. Mort made his move during last evening's show-ending "Buzz" segment.MORTON KONDRACKE: Two new McCain Veep ideas: first, he should offer the Vice-Presidency to Colin Powell, who may well not take it. If not…

Do you often wonder whether mainstream media outlets hate Fox News more than George W. Bush?If so, such a malady would carry the acronym FDS.Sadly, Fox Derangement Syndrome is serious business over at Time magazine, which published the following at its website Thursday (emphasis added throughout, image right courtesy AFP):

Former White House advisor Karl Rove gave a speech at George Washington University on Friday that was disturbed by protestors from the anti-war group Code Pink.As the "insurgents" were being removed from the Harry Harding Auditorium by security guards, students in attendance could be heard comically shouting "Tase 'em!" (embedded video to the right).As reported by The Conservative Voice, in…

Let's go Xavier. Let's go Louisville.

If you were editor of a major American newspaper, would you publish letters to your department tremendously disrespectful of the President?After all, you probably have hundreds nay thousands to choose from on a daily basis. Why bother with ones defaming the most powerful man on the planet?Sadly, such decency didn't seem present at the Washington Post Saturday which actually published the…

As previously reported by NewsBusters, there's an international climate change awareness promotion going on today called Earth Hour, and websearch giant Google is not only participating in it, but advocating its goals. Presenting the other side of this argument is an organization called The Carbon Sense Coalition.It wants "to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and…

Want some more proof of Google's political leanings.Well, consider that the websearch giant is participating in Earth Hour, "a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live."Here's what Google displayed at its website moments ago (h/t NBer Wilbur747, emphasis added):

Just how obvious is it that the media's economic and business coverage is so negatively skewed that it has to be part of a political agenda in an election year? Obvious enough for the folks at Fox News to do an entire segment Saturday morning asking the extraordinary question: "Media ‘Talking Down' the Economy to Get a Dem Elected?" Despite my surprise seeing "Cavuto on Business" begin with…