Special Blagojevich Scandal Captionfest
December 10th, 2008 11:01 AM
Original Caption: "Gov. Rod Blagojevich leaves his home on Chicago's Northwest Side through the back alley Wednesday morning."
Yahoo: Palin 'Blows Off' Oprah, Probably 'Intimidated' by Her
December 9th, 2008 4:18 PM
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is intimidated by Oprah Winfrey's intellect and political acumen, writer Joanna Douglas hinted in her December 5 article for Shine.Yahoo.com entitled "Sarah Palin blows off Oprah Winfrey."While Douglas conceded that the Obama-endorsing daytime talk host refused to book Palin during the campaign, she neglected to mention that the decision at the time offended many a…
Theologian Rebukes NY Times for Mischaracterizing Episcopal Church Rif
December 9th, 2008 3:50 PM
Newsweek is hardly the only MSM publication that is clueless about the Christian faith. The New York Times is also reliably feckless when it comes to reporting on what makes biblically orthodox Christians tick.Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler took the Gray Lady to task last Friday for its reporting on the recnet formation of a new coalition of Anglican churches that…
Newsweek's Miller Plays Armchair Theologian to Defend Same-sex Marriag
December 8th, 2008 12:10 PM
Shortly after dismissing the Bible as archaic and "lukewarm" on marriage, Newsweek's Lisa Miller waxed poetic about it as a "powerful" "living document", essentially suggesting that religious conservatives who consider Scripture to be the inerrant, eternally true decrees of God Himself have a lower view of the Bible than religious liberals: Biblical literalists will disagree, but the Bible is a…
Obama's Preposterous 'Create or Save' Jobs Promise Was Never Uttered D
December 7th, 2008 10:43 AM
Those who thought that President-elect Obama's pre-Thanksgiving promise to "create or save jobs," appropriately satirized by Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters on November 24, might have been another one of the Oh-So-(in)Articulate One's "inartful" statements should know that it has become standard fare in Obama speeches.In related news, Uncle Sam told us Friday that over 136 million seasonally…
Essay: Free Speech Alliance to Fight Return of the Censorship Doctrine
December 3rd, 2008 10:27 AM
Summary: The so-called "Fairness" Doctrine again looms to take away conservatives' access to talk radio Editors Note: This originally appeared in Human Events on December 1, 2008. Click here to sign the Free Speech Alliance petition, and stand at the ready for whenever any liberal again threatens the First Amendment with talk of reinstating the Censorship Doctrine. The Government…
Harry Reid's 'Smelly Tourists' Comment: No Republican or Conservative
December 3rd, 2008 10:20 AM
Some think that Harry Reid must live a charmed life. After all, he asserted last year that the Iraq War "is lost." Now it looks like victory, at least to seasoned on-the-ground observers like Michael Yon. He has fretted over how fossil fuels like coal make us sick. Never mind that life expectancy, largely, uh, fueled by industrialization and its accompanying higher living standards, continues to…
Silent Success: Nov. US Troop Deaths from Hostile Action in Iraq Tie A
December 2nd, 2008 8:44 PM
How can you tell that the news from Iraq about American casualties continues to be good? You barely hear about it. It would be better to report no deaths, of course. But according to icasualities.org, 17 US soldiers died in Iraq during November. Only seven of those deaths were the result of hostile enemy action, tying an all-time low: And here's another "surprise," considering how we were told…
Extra-Legal Homeschooler Harassment: Happens Often, But It's Not News
November 26th, 2008 1:14 PM
This is not a promo for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) per se, as there may be other similarly effective organizations out there to help families who homeschool their kids. But if the following examples don't prove that homeschooled children and their parents need to have access to legal help at a moment's notice, I don't know what will. I will present blood-boiling excerpts…
What Time of Year Is It? (Following 4 Years of Media Use of 'Holidays
November 25th, 2008 9:52 PM
As the Christmas shopping season went into full swing in 2005, I sensed that journalists in general have a strong preference for using the term "holiday shopping" instead of "Christmas shopping" when covering business and commerce, but that when it came to people losing their jobs, they preferred to describe layoffs as relating to "Christmas." My instincts have been proven correct, as you can see…
YouTube's Double Standard On Protests
November 25th, 2008 1:10 PM
YouTube is promoting as its "citizen news report of the day" a video of an alleged attack on Greenpeace activists at a coal plant in Poland. There are two problems with the news judgment behind this video selection.First, both the initial report on the video and YouTube's description of it overstate what actually happened. Watch the video for yourself and see. Aside from some unjustifiable…
Reason Online: Clinton Admin Credited Deregulation for Good 1990s Econ
November 24th, 2008 12:55 PM
During the presidential campaign, we constantly heard from Team Obama and the media (excuse the redundancy) was how Republican-inspired deregulation had let evil bankers and capitalists run roughshod over the economy and created the current credit mess.Well, a lot of the deregulation was GOP-inspired, but that isn't what caused the situation that I like to refer to as The Great SUCKUP (The…