Scott Beauchamp's 'Shock Troops' Statements

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee.After the article "Shock Troops" in The New Republic had been challenged by critics , a documentary filmmaker/blogger by the name of JD Johannes narrowed down the search of the author to Alpha Company, 1-18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division on July21. Three days after that on July 24, the military began a formal investigation, which…
Bob Owens

CNBC's Jim Cramer Still Down on Fed After Three-Quarter-Point Rate Cut

'Mad Money' host challenges WSJ reporter Greg Ip for putting out contradictory stories on Fed leading up to the 'emergency' rate cut.
Jeff Poor

Is This The Sound of Pro-Choice Conceding Defeat

What if pro-choicers wrote a column filled with well-articulated pro-life arguments . . . and never mustered a substantive response? Would it suggest they have effectively conceded defeat on one of the great moral issues of the day? That "what if" becomes reality in Abortion's battle of messages in today's LA Times. As noteworthy as the column's substance is the identity of one of the co-…
Mark Finkelstein

Top Time Editor Lauds Bill Clinton as Michael Jordan of Politics

On Sunday’s edition of the Chris Matthews Show (syndicated by NBC), Time managing editor Richard Stengel applied the usual superlatives to Bill Clinton, in describing how he will overshadow any mere Vice President if Hillary is elected: "But the other thing that’s going to be hard is, if you have Michael Jordan on your team, i.e., Bill Clinton when it's a troubled game, aren't you going to call…
Tim Graham

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: Democrats' race war in '08 primaries, Romney takes Nevada, MSNBC acknowledges moonbat Keith Olbermann's influence, the new Rambo movie, and more!If you're a Myspace user, feel free to click over to our new MySpace page and add us as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel and help take back Web 2.0 for conservatism by giving us positive ratings and…
Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread

NB Staff

Mika's 'Worry': Obama Playing Into Clinton Strategy

Not that there was much doubt, but let's make it official: MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski is firmly in the Obama camp. The capper came during today's opening segment of Morning Joe. After Chris Matthews offered a plausible explanation for Obama's "present" votes in the Illinois senate, David Shuster used an apt metaphor to describe Barack's less-than-trenchant rhetorical style.DAVID SHUSTER: It's in…
Mark Finkelstein

FNC Highlights Latest Poll Showing Public Sees Liberal Bias

Brent Baker

ABC's Pregnant Priorities

Good Morning America presents a thoughtful look at a trio of teens who have had to grow up real fast.
Robert Knight

Shales, A Shill for Sargent Shriver and PBS

PBS can not only make one-sided documentaries celebrating liberals like Sargent Shriver, who married Eunice Kennedy and became George McGovern’s Democratic running mate in 1972, but they can count on newspapers like the Washington Post to celebrate another outburst of liberal Sixties nostalgia. The gushy Post headline was "Politician-Activist Sargent Shriver: The Real Ideal." TV critic Tom Shales…
Tim Graham

Democrats Debate

Anyone watching the debate tonight? Discuss amongst yourselves here if so.
NB Staff

MSM Forgets That Republicans Remember King

In a moment that can only be described as journalistic amnesia, the NYT forgets to mention that Republican candidates remember Dr. King.The NYT had three stories on the section of their site designated for U.S. news, reporting how the presidential candidates honored Martin Luther King, Jr. The first story discusses the three Democratic candidates - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards…
Vivian Lee

American Idol Contestant Mocked for Christian Beliefs by Idol Host

Now, I have never seen this show, so you'll have to excuse me if I am misunderstanding the whole American Idol "thing," OK? As I seem to recall, the deal is that you sing for a washed up 80s pop star, a fat guy no one ever heard of and some English dude and they rate you on your talent. Right? Or is it that they are supposed to rate you on your sex life and moral beliefs? Because, it seems that…
Warner Todd Huston

Gun Control: A Tale of Two Homicides

Howard Nemerov