Georgia Legislature Dismisses Gore, Global Warming Alarmism

An amazing thing happened in the Georgia Legislature Tuesday that national media seem guaranteed to ignore: House members dismissed claims that man is responsible for warming the planet. As reported Wednesday by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (emphasis added throughout): And now for a message on global warming from your Georgia Legislature: Don't sweat it.Climate scientists and environmental…
Noel Sheppard
 

Suspicious Package on Ferry, Yet Seattle PI Still Won't Run Photos of

Bill Hobbs
 

CNN: Unsafe Sex, Pregnancy the Fault of Smaller Government

Network concerned that deficit reduction eliminated federally subsidized birth control for college students.
Jeff Poor
 

Surge Success Causes Democrats to Recalibrate Iraq Strategy

Matthew Sheffield
 

NBC's Mitchell Tells 'Internet Writers' to Take 'a Breath

NBC's Andrea Mitchell scolded Matt Drudge and other "Internet writers" for making much ado about nothing over Michelle Obama's "If you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House," slam of Hillary Clinton. On the Wednesday "Today" show, Mitchell ran the aforementioned quote from Sen. Barack Obama's wife and then proceeded to wag her finger at Drudge and other "Internet…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

Romanian Villager Sends PBS Message in Bottle to Debunk Anti-mining Do

Bill Hobbs
 

Google Puts Laughing Bush by Headline ‘Children May Lose Out On Insu

Whether an accident or intentional, the placing of a picture of President George W. Bush laughing next to the headline "Children May Lose On Insurance" is rather deplorable, especially since the picture was not from the article in question. However, that's what occurred at Google News' Health section Wednesday morning when the featured article was the Boston Globe's piece by Alice Dembner…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

Possible discussion point: "Two-thirds of US adults admit to being in the dark about political issues outside the United States, and only a third are well-versed in US politics, the results of a poll published Tuesday showed."
NB Staff
 

Seattle PI Continues to Refuse to Aid FBI in Terror Probe

Bill Hobbs
 

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Editor's 'Answer' to Web Challenge

P.J. Gladnick
 

Follow-up: Nearly Six Months Later, NYT's 'Manufacturing Recession' Ca

Last night, it occurred to me, as I was preparing an e-mail to notify New York Times business columnist David Cay Johnston about updates to yesterday's original posts (NewsBusters;
Tom Blumer
 

MSNBC's Hall Defends CNN's 'God's Warriors': Christians, Jews Could Tu

Mika Brzezinski might be taking a break from "Morning Joe," but the MSNBC show hasn't missed a liberal beat with her replacement. Tamron Hall today seemed to suggest that Christians and Jews could be next to emulate Muslim terror tactics. At 6:35 A.M. EDT today, talk turned to the CNN series "God's Warriors," a classic exercise in moral equivalence. Hosted by Christiane Amanpour, the series…
Mark Finkelstein
 

ABC Story Covers NB, Media Matters: Guess Which It Fails to Interview

Update with video posted below fold.File this one under the rubric "Unintentionally Revealing Moments of MSM Bias." ABC publishes an article about media watchdog groups and singles out two for mention: NewsBusters and Media Matters. But the article goes on to cite the work of and publish comments by a representative of only one of those groups. Which one do you think it was?Yesterday, ABC posted…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Chgo. Sun-Times, Pregnancies to Rise in US Colleges -- It's All Bush's

The Chicago Sun-Times is blaming the Bush administration for what they claim is sure to be a rise in unplanned pregnancies at colleges and universities across the country. It hasn't happened yet, mind you, but they are sure it's gonna! Naturally, the paper cannot imagine we should place any blame on the stupid students who are getting themselves pregnant. I mean, it HAS to be Bush's fault, you…
Warner Todd Huston