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NB Staff

Dingell Plans Attack on Homeowners

Dan Gainor

Seattle P-I Editor: 'We Get to Decide What Is News and What Isn't

Bill Hobbs

Scarborough OK With Wolf Equating Bushies With Nazis

Joe Scarborough prides himself on being an independent thinker. Apparently that extends to not uttering a peep of protest, and indeed tending to concur, when a left-wing guest flatly accuses the Bush administration of using Nazi tactics to suppress democracy.At about 7:45 A.M. EDT today, Naomi Wolf was a guest on "Morning Joe," there to promote her new book, the pretentiously-entitled The End of…
Mark Finkelstein

Environmentalism: Religion for the Godless

In a time when modern science and scholarship have begun to cast doubts on traditional faith, many on the left, right, and center are increasingly abandoning traditional religion. While most such people on the center-right are content simply not to believe, many on the left continue to cling to the salvationist ethos. In the past, that impulse was satiated with communistic reveries. If religion…
Matthew Sheffield

Statistical Analysis Shows ABC News Unfair in Democrat Debate

P.J. Gladnick

Bad News: Tamron's Info Sources are Us Weekly and NYT

Mark Finkelstein

UK's Times: France Left 'Moral Highground' Lending U.S. a 'Helping Han

 An August 22 article in the UK's Times Online gave some insight into the paper's behind-the-scenes views with this headline, “Paris vacates the moral highground to give Washington a helping hand” (h/t Fausta). For the Times, France's “moral highground” was a four-year diplomatic lock-out with Iraq that began after the “US-led invasion” (and, interestingly, at the end of several Frenchmen…
Lynn Davidson

Bozell Column: YouTube and Ronald Reagan

After CNN and YouTube organized a fairly silly and yet seriously liberal presidential debate for the Democratic presidential candidates this summer, GOP contenders developed cold feet about placing their ambitions at the feet of these groups. When only two GOP candidates accepted invitations for a proposed CNN/YouTube debate in September, the event was called off. In response, a set of…
Brent Bozell

CAIR Resents Release of Seattle Ferry Photos

Bill Hobbs

The Ascent of 'Torture Porn

We wondered then if a civilized society could ever accept this genre in the open. It's worth asking again because we are inching ever closer to it.
L. Brent Bozell III

CNN's God's Christian Warriors Leaves Viewers… Scared

Reporter Amanpour says she's trying to understand Christian believers, but her special amounts to a call to arms against them.
Robert Knight

Warner Allows NBC to Again Hail Iraq 'Turning Point,' CBS: 'Major Blow

Republican Senator John Warner's call for the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Iraq by Christmas was trumpeted by the broadcast network evening shows Thursday night: CBS's Katie Couric touted a “major blow tonight to President Bush's Iraq policy” and ABC's Martha Raddatz saw a “stunning announcement that could have a powerful effect on the war” as the NBC Nightly News, for the fifth time in two…
Brent Baker

Pro-Choice Position 'More Moderate' Than Pro-life? NYT Says So

Mark Finkelstein