Alan Colmes Fabricates Cruz's Absence From Scalia's Funeral
February 20th, 2016 9:41 PM
Liberal Alan Colmes, apparently miffed at people who have criticized President Barack Obama for not attending the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, asserted earlier today that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz would not be there.
Colmes got it wrong. Cruz was there, and it was known for quite some time that he would be there. Colmes, since the words "I'm sorry" are apparently…
West Va. Is Now 26th Right-To-Work State; AP Coverage Predictably Weak
February 20th, 2016 10:12 AM
West Virginia became the nation's 26th state with a "right-to-work" law a bit over a week ago. At the same time, it also repealed "prevailing wage" requirements for public construction projects.
The idea that the formerly Democrat-dominated Mountain State would pass either item was unthinkable as little as a decade ago. That was before the Obama administration began its war on coal-powereed…
The AP's Disgraceful Coverage of the Columbus Islamist Machete Attack
February 19th, 2016 5:38 PM
The Associated Press has posted four stories during the past week on the machete-wielding Islamist who attacked patrons at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio on February 11, seriously wounding several.
The wire service's coverage has been a textbook example of deliberate reality avoidance.
MSNBC's Hayes: Obama 'Should Go' to Scalia Funeral — And Why He Won't
February 17th, 2016 9:22 PM
MSNBC's Chris Hayes is usually right less often than a stopped clock, i.e., fewer than two times a day. But he might get lucky if by some miracle he's right about something else today because of the matter discussed in this post.
After the Obama administration announced that President Barack Obama will not attend Saturday's funeral for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a staunch Catholic,…
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CNN Hypes New York Daily News's 'Dolt .45' Blast at Jeb Bush's Gun Pic
February 17th, 2016 5:25 PM
CNN's Athena Jones spotlighted the latest pro-gun control headline on the New York Daily News's front page during Wednesday's New Day. Jones, who was following Jeb Bush's campaign, noted that the former Florida governor was "getting some attention for a tweeted photo of a handgun engraved with his name. The caption: 'America.' The New York Daily News having some fun with that picture, with the…
AP: Japan's Economy Shrank Again, Despite 'Lavish' Stimulus
February 17th, 2016 3:26 PM
It seems that no degree of exposure to the real world can destroy journalists' belief in Keynesian economic — not even the two decades-plus calamity in Japan. The Japanese economy has contracted again. According to a report at the Associated Press early Monday morning by an apparently perplexed Elaine Kurtenbach, this occurred despite — not because of — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "lavish…
Hulu Travels Back in Time to Mock Nixon
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February 17th, 2016 2:56 AM
Hulu's latest mini-series “11.22.63” released its first of eight episodes this week and honestly... it's excellent so far. Based on the book by Stephen King and produced by J. J. Abrams how could it be anything but good? Even James Franco, who plays the main character Jake Epping, is unusually decent.
Shorter Twitter: Traitor Snowden Offended by Jeb Bush's Pro-Gun Tweet
February 16th, 2016 6:27 PM
So apparently a "Moments" curator at Twitter has taken offense at Jeb Bush tweeting out a photo of a handgun which he owns.
Twelve Tweets of Liberal Journalists Celebrating Scalia's Death
February 15th, 2016 12:58 PM
The news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death this past Saturday shocked the country. A Reagan appointee, Scalia was also Catholic, socially conservative, and brilliant; a combination that made him the left’s most-hated member of the Supreme Court. While his passing was respectfully treated by many in the media, there were still many far-left journalists who refused to show the late…
NY Times Editorialist: Give Obama His Court Nominee Because of Slavery
February 15th, 2016 11:00 AM
Yesterday, New York Times editorial board member Brent Staples tweeted what was and apparently still is his best argument for why the Republican-controlled Senate should roll over and approve whoever President Obama wishes to nominate to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Antonin Scalia's death on Saturday: "In a nation built on slavery, white men propose denying the first black…
Will Kanye West's Free Ride From the Media Ever End?
February 14th, 2016 9:27 PM
The best-known of the three declared presidential candidates for 2020 (not kidding) appears to be off to a good start as a leftist politician in love with deficit spending.
According to a celebrity income estimate maintained by Forbes Magazine, rapper Kanye West has earned well over $200 million during the past 12 years. Saturday evening, he tweeted that he is carrying "$53 million in personal…
AP Seems to Celebrate Wall St. Doing Poorly, Pretends Main St. Is Okay
February 14th, 2016 5:06 PM
The Associated Press's choice of a headline to accompany business writer Stan Choe's Saturday morning report on the state of the economy — "MAIN STREET HOLDS UP AS WALL STREET STRUGGLES, FOR A CHANGE" — has a couple of interesting implications.
Is AP celebrating the fact that Wall Street is struggling? Or does the idea that "Main Street" is holding up "for a change" mean that it hasn't been…
The De Facto Coup in Venezuela the U.S. Press Won't Recognize
February 13th, 2016 3:55 PM
On Thursday, Venezuela's Supreme Court decided to grant Bolivarian socialist "President" Nicolas Maduro what an unbylined Associated Press report described as "broad decree powers" to deal with the economic crisis and humanitarian nightmare he and his predecessor Hugo Chavez created.
Maduro's government now for all practical purposes has total control of that nation's economy, which in the…
Joan Walsh: 'White Working Class' Rejects Hillary Because of Obama
February 11th, 2016 11:58 PM
Joan Walsh, who after a long tenure at Salon.com is now National Affairs Correspondent at far-left publication The Nation, is responding as leftists usually do when their favored candidates and causes are in trouble: immaturely, and by smearing recalcitrant people who, in their fevered minds, should be supporting them.
Walsh is a big fan of Hillary Clinton, whose legal and electoral situations…
