Looking for your own financial bailout?
Well, the unprecedented decline in gasoline prices the past five months is actually giving regular Americans a much-needed boost to their balance…
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Here are the key numbers (in red) in Uncle Sam's November Personal Income and Outlays report (the July :
Common sense says that the chart's results after adjusting for inflation are…
On Monday’s World News, ABC showed a letter written to Barack Obama that made a snide crack charging that President Bush and Vice President Cheney had left Obama a "hell of a mess to clean up,"…
On the Monday, December 22 World News, ABC host Charles Gibson took a moment to relay the latest milestone in good news from Iraq regarding how much violence has diminished in the country. Gibson…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Where did all the shoppers go?
Despite a flurry of last-minute shoppers lured by the deep discounts, total retail sales, excluding…
Sure, its revenues might be plunging along with its share price, but the New York Times is still good for something. In these somber days of winter, the Gray Lady, her name notwithstanding, can…
The McClatchy publishing company is more and more beginning to resemble an isolated bunker in the final stages of Götterdämmerung as ugly reality, such as their 99% stock price plunge, closes in…
Here’s a textbook definition of bias by story placement in a newspaper. On Christmas Eve, the Washington Post placed the release of the Obama’s transition team’s report on contacts with Gov. Rod…
Imagine there's no religion, it's easy for The New York Times to do -- even in a Christmas Day editorial that somehow forgets that Christmas is about Christ's birth. In fact, the NYT decided that…
I held this item for a couple of days after I found it because I didn't want to spoil Christmas. Readers can fairly criticize me for waiting.
It is truly astonishing how little attention…
A holiday change of pace from your humble correspondent here. Instead of taking a non-political article and looking for a political theme, I am taking this Slate article about political media divas…
Charlie Brown first asked in 1965, "Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?" Judging by the Christmas songs featured on the morning network shows during the 2008 Christmas season…
Employees of McClatchy publishing in Iraq were in an unusually good mood recently. The occasion was the aftermath of the Iraqi journalist who tossed his shoes at President Bush at a press…
If you thought Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg when he thinks about Barack Obama, you ain't seen nuttin' yet, for on Christmas Eve, CNN's Bill Schneider practically aired a love letter for…
December can be such a refreshing month for television, especially the warm-hearted Christmas specials that make the holiday about giving, not mall-emptying materialism. This year, for example,…
First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.
Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.
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NewsBusters and the Media Research Center wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas.
(Marvelous Christmas videos below the fold for…
When during its first half-hour this Christmas morning "Today" moved to a conversation between Matt Lauer and Pastor Rick Warren, I braced myself. Don't tell me, I thought, they're going to get…
MSN TV reporter, Dave Lake, has decided in his infinite wisdom that Tina Fey ridiculing Governor Sarah Palin is the top TV moment from the 2008 TV season. Aren't you surprised that making fun of…
This is really delicious, and should cheer up the grinchiest of Grinches and the scroogiest of Scrooges:
Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the…
For most people, late December conjures up images of Christmas trees, religious services, and year-end recaps.
That is not the case in Hollywood, however, where Christmastime seems to be…
Conservatives still licking their wounds over the results of the November elections finally have something to cheer about: you don't have to read Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne's articles…
Is "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" still around? If so, have I got a submission for them. On second thought, they'd probably consider it too implausible.New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright,…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Obama's Christmas Eve Blago dump.
President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top aides met last week with federal investigators…
Here's an announcement that will please atheists and climate alarmists alike: Christmas lights are bad for the planet because they cause global warming.
So says the Commonwealth Scientific…