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One of the constants espoused by conservative media analysts is that the views of most mainstream press members are not shared by the majority of Americans.This week represented a fabulous example of this assertion as media member after media member gushed over Barack Obama's performance in Philadelphia on Tuesday while a majority of citizens in a recent poll said that they were less likely to…

Does anybody else thinked the Aggies got hosed last night? It seemed to me that in the last three minutes or so, the Bruins could foul at will with nary a whistle, while by comparison, if an Aggie breathed too heavily, a Bruin was shouting free throws. Anybody else see it that way, or am I just too enamored with underdogs?Today's schedule looks fun. Can Davidson continue its run? Any upset…

This certainly hasn't been the winter climate alarmists wanted to prove that global warming is destined to destroy the planet if we don't immediately cease and desist emitting that awful carbon dioxide into the air. After all, not only has the cooling trend continued, but despite warnings that America was going to have so little snow that ski resorts across the fruited plain would all go bankrupt…

Al Gore and Thierry Lombard, Senior Partner LODH, at press conference in Switzerland on March 11, 2008 to announce that LODH and Generation Investment Management have decided to join forces to promote sustainable investment. Photo Reuters/Denis Balibouse (Switzerland) 

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Happy Easter.What does this day mean to you? Has its meaning changed as you've grown older? Anybody doing anything special or out of the ordinary?Does America have its religious priorities mixed up a bit inasmuch as we clearly give greater emphasis to Christmas? Should it be the other way around, and Easter be given more attention? Any…

There's nothing into which Saturday Night Live can't work its liberal politics--even a conventional game-show sketch. NBC aired a re-run of the February 24th SNL last night, and watching it this morning I spotted what you might call a "subliminable" anti-Ann Coulter product placement.In "What's That Bitch Talking About?" two contestants viewing a succession of women offering bare snippets of…

Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press reports that Muslims are incensed that a prominent Italian Muslim writer with a fondness for Israel became a Christian before Pope Benedict on the Easter vigil. (Magdi Allam's writings were quoted by Michael Ledeen on NRO several years ago.) Jihad Watch has new comments. (Photo from AJCBlog.) To the AP: Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer…

Is offending someone's religion or religious beliefs a sign of having a conscience?Apparently it is to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences which is going to give an award to the highly controversial CNN miniseries "God's Warriors" for being "Television With a Conscience."I kid you not. As reported by the Academy Thursday (emphasis added, h/t TVNewser):

A recent AP story about 50-year-olds moving back into their parents homes because the economy is so bad is one of the best examples of taking anecdotal evidence and stretching it into a universal truth that I have seen for a while. Filled with the sadly common "many say" and all based on the tale of one person who moved back home at 52, the AP magically discerned a national trend. This is the…

Hollywood is about to release a remake of the science fiction classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still."This time, rather than coming to earth to warn us about our dangerous foray into the nuclear age, Klaatu and Gort have returned to caution us about -- wait for it -- global warming!Honestly, you can't possibly make this stuff up! As marvelously reported Friday by Vic Holtreman of Screen Rant (his…

Despite the more hysterical predictions we've heard of late, the evidence continues to mount that if the earth was warming, it stopped quite some time ago.Of course, don't expect this fact to be widely reported, if it indeed even makes it into any U.S. newspapers or television broadcasts.Read the entire interview from The Australian, but a couple of admissions are quite striking: