Did you feel the earth shake under your feet in the past couple of hours?
It's because GM CEO Rick Wagoner has resigned...at the request of President Barack Obama.
As reported moments…
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Barack Obama promised to elevate the level of political discourse. Some of his apparent admirers didn't get the memo.
Take, for example, this user comment on the Washington Post's 44: The…
Greta Van Susteren is clearly sick and tired of people accusing her of advising Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
She's also fed up with what she referred to Sunday as a "hit and run":
This is…
This afternoon I learned that Bill Ayers has been invited to speak to high school students in the suburb of Naperville Illinois where he will discuss his days in the Weather Underground. (h/t Doug…
We're nearly 24 hours out of Earth Hour and the media are already proclaiming it a success as Michael Bates pointed out for NewsBusters in a blog post earlier today.
However one prominent…
CBS's Bob Schieffer devoted about half of his Face the Nation interview, with President Barack Obama, to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but on Iraq he failed to point out Obama's opposition to the surge…
Today's Chicago Sun-Times features the column "Obama speech tests Notre Dame's strength" by Carol Marin. She begins:It takes courage to be a Catholic educator. In America's culture wars, abortion is…
Over the years, some of the best television commercials by far have come from beer companies like Budweiser and Miller.
With that as pretext, the good folks at Heineken have created an ad…
President Obama unveiled a new Afghanistan strategy on Friday.
As US News reported:
The new policy, according to a senior State Department official, places elevated priority on…
It looks like at least one Huffington Post blogger has been paying attention to the surge in Rush Limbaugh's radio ratings since the White House began attacking him. As chronicled here in…
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Well, sports fans, we finally got a great game in this tournament.
Was yesterday's Villanova-Pitt classic on par with the Duke-Kentucky semifinal in 1992? Probably not...but it was a…
Though there have long been concerns about liberal bias in the media, 2008 was the year the referees took off their striped shirts and donned a team’s jersey.
So wrote former Republican…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Europe not interested in global Obamanomics!
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was honored Saturday night in Houston by America’s leading provider of abortions, with an award named for a woman who believed the population of inferior races…
Thus far, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made two diplomatic blunders during her visit to Mexico that the U.S. Old Media are shockingly uninterested in highlighting. One was a policy…
Pretty much everybody over a certain age remembers the Bush-Gore 2000 presidential election wasn't settled on election night, right?
You might think so, but one of the nation's best-known…
Have you celebrated Earth Hour tonight by turning off your lights during the hour of 8:30 to 9:30 PM? Time magazine thinks this is so important that they have melodratically asked, Can Earth Hour…
If the Los Angeles Times' Tim Rutten is determined to establish himself as one of the nation's worst journalists when it comes to writing on the issues of abortion and Catholicism, he's doing a…
Reuters issued a dispatch this afternoon centering on a global effort to underscore the threat of global warming. "World switches off to save planet in 'Earth Hour'" reports the news service. The…
UPDATE at end of post: ATT and Ford complain about attack campaign!
In today's Tonya Harding Moment, just a week after complaining about Brit Hume's admission that he often used Media…
I don't know what got into MSNBC's Chris Matthews Thursday, but the "Hardball" host seemed rather annoyed by his President's recent treatment of the news media.
First, he opened up a segment…
Just hours after MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews calls Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the "Mata Hari of Minnesota" and Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi says "a guy huffing glue out of a…
The Washington Post's Friday and Saturday front-page reports by Karen DeYoung on President Obama's escalation of war in Afghanistan are curiously missing one political element: objections from the…
No environment-related historical myth seems stronger than the one claiming that if it weren't for the Republican Congress in the late 1990s and President George W. Bush after that, the US would…
Get ready for a rare spectacle -- Rachel Maddow, chastened. By a Democrat.In one of her nightly efforts to slam so-called "conservadems," members of a newly formed Senate caucus of moderate…