Swimsuit Model Turned Anchorwoman Stirs Controversy

Noel Sheppard
 

Morning Shows Agree, Bush is a 'Lame Duck

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Lauer's Got Lame-Duck Fever

Mark Finkelstein
 

ABC's Cuomo Grovels Before Offended Michael Moore: ‘Look, I Like the

Scott Whitlock
 

Canadian Economist Proposes Global Warming Solution Everyone Should Lo

Noel Sheppard
 

Tony Snow Reprimands CBS's Harry Smith: 'You Can't Have Your Own Facts

Justin McCarthy
 

Bozell Column: CNN's Double Time For Our Christian Democrats

Brent Bozell
 

Open Thread

For discussion and debate as you see fit...
NB Staff
 

AP: Sarkozy 'Misstep' Could Spark Violence

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his political party are pretty popular these days. He's only enjoying a landslide parliamentary election a month after he routed Socialist Segolene Royal to gain the keys to the Élysée Palace.But the way you read it in the Associated Press, it almost sounds as if Sarkozy is a latter day Robespierre, at least in that there's some Reign of Terror just waiting…
Ken Shepherd
 

Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This

Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, standing on the west side of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, gave a speech that many believe signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War.In this extraordinary moment in history, President Reagan challenged the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev:General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN Reporter Admits Paying to Stage Story, Capping Nearly a Decade of

So, what is CNN? THIS is CNN in 1998; the link is to a story debunking the network's Peter Arnett and April Oliver, who accused Vietnam soldiers of war crimes in Operation Tailwind. This is from 2003. The network's Eason Jordan confessed that the network twisted the news out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, thereby giving false impressions of the regime to the world so that it could maintain its access…
Tom Blumer
 

The Consequences of Failure

Big tip of the hat to Scott Johnson at Power Line for tipping me off to an excellent op-ed in the New York Times which makes one of the few correct comparisons of Iraq to Vietnam: that withdrawal before the task is done diminishes American credibility abroad.Here's an excerpt from "Defeat's Killing Fields:"Today, in Iraq, there should be no illusion that defeat would come at an acceptable price…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Rolling Stone Finding Enviroleft Hard to Please

Since the left has, in Alexander Cockburn's words, become "entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent" comparisons between liberal globalwarmingism and socialism are becoming increasingly apt.One of those comparisons comes on the question of income inequality and environmental correctness. No radical leftist can tell you just how far the government should go to "fix" this "problem…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Ultra-Defensive: WashPost Writer Lashes Out Over Her Use of 'Ultracons

Tim Graham