Another 14 Carter Center Members Resign in Protest Over President Cart
January 11th, 2007 2:53 PM
Despite the media's fawning over Jimmy Carter and the publication of his new book as reported by NewsBusters here, here, here, and here, the former president has suffered even further embarrassment as another fourteen members of The Carter Center have resigned. As reported by the Associated Press (hat tip to Drudge, emphasis mine throughout):Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's…
Nobody Makes Lemonade into Lemons Better Than AP's Business Reporters
January 11th, 2007 9:47 AM
An unbylined report on unemployment claims by the Associated Press is a classic of the genre (bold is mine):
The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for jobless claims dropped by 26,000 to 299,000 last week on a seasonally adjusted basis. It marked the first time jobless claims have fallen below 300,000 since the week of July 22.
The improvement was much better than the decline…
The Questions Still Remain
January 8th, 2007 10:28 AM
I'd never quite appreciated how amusing the Leftist swarm could be until last night and this morning, where an Associated Press report
that Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf had
finally, at long last confirmed the existence of Captain Jamil Hussein
hit the wires, and liberals around the country (and around the world)
conflated Hussein's ability to exist with the veracity…
Coverage of Voter ID Law Court Cases Depends on Result
January 7th, 2007 10:24 AM
Last week, a Federal Appeals Court upheld Indiana's Voter ID law (HT Volokh):
Appeals court upholds voter ID law
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's law that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls is not too burdensome, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said Thursday in a 2-1 ruling that upholds the 2005 law.
..... The 7th U.S. Circuit Court questioned arguments that…
Gone in 60 Stories
January 3rd, 2007 3:56 PM
On December 5 of last year, I wrote a blog post entitled 60 Billion Minutes, where I wrote:We also know that Jamil Hussein has consistently been a source for at least 60 news stories over two years, and that Jamil Hussein is just one of many apparently fake sources that has driven Associated Press reporting in Iraq. This presents us with the unsettling possibility that the Associated Press has no…