Reuters on Fidel Castro: He's a Sports Nut

Pam Meister

Chicago Sun-Times: 'Could Obama End Centuries of Corruption

Mike Bates

AP Ignores Congressman’s Bush is Hitler Remark Until He Apologizes

If you had any questions about the political leanings of the Associated Press, they were answered Tuesday when the wire service finally noticed nine days after the fact that a Democrat Congressman had made some despicable comments about President Bush, Adolf Hitler, and 9/11. Of course, the AP getting around to this issue when the Congressman apologized for his deplorable remarks is icing on the…
Noel Sheppard

The Hill Newspaper: We've Found a Tax Hike Some Conservatives Like

Ken Shepherd

AFL-CIO: Keith Olbermann WIll Moderate Upcoming Democratic Presidentia

Apparently, the grandstanding by Edward R. Murrow-wannabe Keith Olbermann during his performance as co-moderator of the May Republican debate won the support of the AFL-CIO. On its blog, the union announced the big news that Olbermann will also moderate the August 7 Democratic debate, which the powerful union is sponsoring.It looks like the man who once stated that “the leading terrorist group in…
Lynn Davidson

Open Thread

So how's that conversion thing working out for you? Anything else on your mind?
NB Staff

Gore Gorges on Overfished Sea Bass

Pam Meister

NYT Paints Tearful Picture of Deported Illegal Immigrant

Warner Todd Huston

Nets Bury Elizabeth Edwards 'Behaves Like a Man' Hillary Swipe

Quick -- which is Hillary Clinton's bigger liability as a candidate?:A. She's an insufficiently ardent feminist; orB. Her personality is cold, calculating and unfeminine.If you've been living on Planet Earth since 1992, surely your answer is 'B.' So when Elizabeth Edwards adds fuel to that fire, accusing Hillary of behaving like a man, that is very newsworthy stuff. Unless you're NBC or ABC,…
Mark Finkelstein

Article or Editorial? Times Talks of Desperate Bush Admin, U.S. 'Mire

As straight news articles go, it was a heck of an editorial that appeared on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. The ostensible subject of Bush to Bolster Abbas and Seek Peace Talks was President Bush's announcement Monday of "a regional peace conference this fall to be led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that would include high-level Arab envoys and their counterparts from…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Uses Democrat Helpers To Explain How Democrats Now 'Get Religion

Monday’s Early Show on CBS picked up on Time magazine’s promotional cover story "How The Democrats Got Religion." Reporter Jeff Glor used two guides to explore how the Democrats would "level the praying field," but didn’t exactly tell viewers that these guides were involved in the drive to help the Democrats. The first expert was Time magazine’s Amy Sullivan, who wrote a "God Gap" essay for the…
Tim Graham

Newsweek Takes a Look at Modesty – but Keeps It at Arm's Length

Shouldn't the editors know intuitively that modesty is a good thing?
Colleen Raezler

Energy Expert Bashes Media, EPA Regulations, Ethanol, and Global Warmi

As oil and gas prices have risen over the past few years, more and more Americans have become familiar with the name Trilby Lundberg. For those that aren’t, the Lundberg Survey has been the source for information related to fuel prices, fuel taxes, and all things petroleum for over fifty years. With that in mind, Lundberg was interviewed by the folks at CNN.com last Wednesday, and the never…
Noel Sheppard

Newsweek Warmly Imagines Virus Wiping Out Man, Earth's 'Most Disruptiv

Newsweek writer Jerry Adler penned an environmental-extremist quote for the ages in the last issue of 1990, writing "It's a morbid observation, but if everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem." More than 16 years later, Adler’s on the morbid anti-human bandwagon again in this week’s Newsweek with an entire page-long article reporting…
Tim Graham