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…
There was no Memorex around when the brontosauri were bidding bye-bye, but I think we have a pretty good idea of what they sounded like as they were going extinct. Just listen to Brian Williams…
On Tuesday’s American Morning, CNN showed a contrast (especially on screen) during the 7 am hour between their enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s shirtless photos and Sarah Palin’s discussion of her…
Sean Hannity marks 2008 as the year journalism died. But it could just as easily be the year journalism felt a thrill going up its leg. That Chris Matthews announcement in February, that a Barack…
Given some of the reactions to an item I wrote yesterday about Barney Frank's objections to Rick Warren giving the invocation at the inauguration, let me state for the record that I lean…
Fox News anchor Brit Hume, host of "Special Report" will be stepping down after tonight's show.
His successor is scheduled to be Bret Baier, currently the chief White House correspondent for…
Oops! The New York Times admitted yesterday that it had inadvertently printed a letter critical of would-be Democratic senator Caroline Kennedy.
"This letter was a fake. It should not have…
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MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham will appear on tonight's "O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel with guest host John Kasich. The show airs at 8 and 11 pm Eastern. The red-hot topic is…
The Tuesday morning shows of NBC, ABC, and CBS all promoted Barack Obama’s celebrity status as hosts and reporters ogled the latest paparazzi photo of Obama in swim trunks while on vacation in…
In 2005, I sensed that journalists in general prefer to call this time of the year in commerce that of “holiday shopping” instead of “Christmas shopping,” but that when it came to people losing their…
Is it possible the financial media played a role in facilitating the alleged $50 billion Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme? An interesting theory by Jon Najarian, CNBC analyst and cofounder of…
Contrary to the media meme, there are indeed some Hollywood and sports celebrities that are conservative.
Most readers are probably aware of the more outspoken folks on this list including…
Just before 8 am Eastern time on the Tuesday edition of CNN’s American Morning, anchor John Roberts interview Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, and something unusual happened. After a battery of…
You would think from reading yesterday afternoon's report by the Associated Press's Tom Murphy that companies like Toyota, Nissan, and Honda are not that far from finding themselves in the…
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Media Research Center founder and president L. Brent Bozell appeared on Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel Tuesday morning to discuss The Best Notable Quotables of 2008. He appeared live…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Bush’s Legacy May End Up Better Than You Think.
On foreign policy, Bush emphasizes that he pursued a “freedom agenda” and…
The roundtable on Monday night's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC was not kind to the New York Times's hit piece on Sunday's front page that blamed President Bush and only Bush for the…
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This is a timely op-ed from Dan Gainor of BMI.
Christmastime is the time of giving. So we can thank Bernie Madoff for giving Americans some special gifts this holiday season.
Yes, I…
ABC can't be so naive as to believe it wasn't a carefully calculated publicity stunt. Surely the good folks at Good Morning America know it was anything but an invasion of privacy--that the…
New York Times legal writer Adam Liptak has a column Tuesday titled "Bush v. Gore Set to Outlast Its Beneficiary." Contrary to partisan liberal wisdom, it seems that the Supreme Court’s ruling to…
Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how great Kwanzaa is by yet another PC spewing newspaper columnist. This year, among many others, we…
So, once again, students in the Colorado university system and their parents will be asked to pay more for tuition. The Rocky slips this university talking point into its report: "Low state…
On the ball. That's what the experts at The New York Times are, alright. They are the arbiters of all that's fit to print, remember? The ones that know all and see all, dontcha know? They are the…