One of the priorities of the new Congress, and something approved of by most of the media, is to expand federal grants and loans to college students. While this may sound like a good way to…
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December 5th, 2006 5:22 PM | Noel Sheppard
There’s good news and bad news. Well, in this case, there’s only bad news. Surprisingly strong data about the nation’s residential real estate market was released on November 30 by the Office of…
November 27th, 2006 12:45 PM | Greg Sheffield
Taking a cue from Bill Clinton, Dem. Congressman Barney Frank bashed Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace on the air, and denounced Fox News as "substantially worse" than the other networks. Reports…
November 18th, 2006 1:21 PM | Mark Finkelstein
We’re at Camp Al Asad, about 150 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar Province. We began our day with the famous Navy Seabees, the construction battalions that historically have gone ashore with the…
November 16th, 2006 2:08 AM | Brent Baker
CBS anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday night empathized with the plight of incoming Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, as his wish to withdraw U.S. troops from…
November 13th, 2006 6:08 PM | Dan Gainor
To quote the Randy Newman song, short people “got little noses and tiny little teeth.” According to the November 13 USA Today, that might be “a disability” – and a costly one at that.
…November 11th, 2006 4:06 PM | Clay Waters
New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar, who covers Islam in America, on Friday celebrates Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
During the campaign, the…
November 11th, 2006 2:06 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Thursday’s “Scarborough Country,” the host admitted that MSNBC looped the Dittocam video of Rush Limbaugh gesticulating like Michael J. Fox to make it look like it went on longer than it did (…
November 7th, 2006 12:41 PM | Clay Waters
Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney's last "Political Memo" before the election, "For Buoyant Democrats, Even a Big Gain May Feel Like a Failure," dramatically…
November 6th, 2006 2:48 PM | Clay Waters
Sunday's lead story from Adam Nagourney and Robin Toner casts Republican party prospects in unrelieved grim tones ("G.O.P. Glum as It Struggles to Hold Congress -- Lost…
November 3rd, 2006 11:24 AM | Ken Shepherd
Just hours before unemployment dropped to a 5-year low and just five days before an election, CBS’s Katie Couric was warning about “jobs in jeopardy.”
Couric, who also had…
November 2nd, 2006 10:23 PM | Brent Baker
CNN's Jack Cafferty listed a litany of supposed Bush misdeeds and how Bill Clinton “was impeached for telling a lie” before posing his “Cafferty File” question in the 7pm EST hour of Thursday's The…
November 1st, 2006 4:13 PM | Amy Menefee
Since the 2003 Bush tax cuts, the media have joined the chorus of Democrats in singing an “anti-tax cut” hymn. As another election looms, some of the singers have changed, but the song…
October 30th, 2006 5:51 AM | Mark Finkelstein
I looked around when I heard someone crying, and there was Pollyanna bawling her eyes out. That's how depressing was the one-two punch of pessimism in Paul Krugman's and Bob Herbert's New York…
October 27th, 2006 3:28 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On last night's syndicated Fox show, Geraldo At Large, Geraldo Rivera went on a rambling rant on issues meant to motivate Democrats to the polls and then urged his viewers: "Don't forget to vote…
October 23rd, 2006 12:14 PM | Ken Shepherd
“Freshman 15 down to just 8,” blared an October 23 USA Today headline. But reporter Nanci Hellmich still found an appetite for worry about college students’ eating habits in her Life section…
October 21st, 2006 11:26 AM | Noel Sheppard
As reported Friday, a Democrat staffer was suspended last week over possibly being the source of the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. New reports from the Los…
October 20th, 2006 10:56 AM | Noel Sheppard
The Associated Press reported late Thursday evening that the chairman of the House Intelligence committee Peter Hoekstra (R-Michigan) has suspended a Democrat staffer…
October 20th, 2006 7:41 AM | Mark Finkelstein
It wouldn't be election season without at least one member of the MSM associating Republicans with the Ku Klux Klan. And who better to oblige than the New York Times, in its editorial of this…
October 19th, 2006 8:29 PM | Mike Bates
CBS News today is carrying the AP story, "Dems to Use Moderation if They Win House." Written by Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor, the article appears intended to quiet any anxieties about…
October 6th, 2006 7:22 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Wondering who the proprietor of the mysteriously connected "Stop Sex Predators" blog, the originator of the Mark Foley story is?
Head over to Ace of Spades, Hot Air and NBer Dan Riehl's blog…
September 18th, 2006 11:56 PM | Noel Sheppard
Last September, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, the media regularly warned of rising natural gas prices and exploding heating bills. Yet, when these same energy costs…
September 15th, 2006 4:17 PM | Tom Blumer
This was not a good day, and probably won't be a good weekend, for those who have been bad-mouthing the economy --
Drudge reports that retail gas in Missouri is as low as $1.85. Around…September 4th, 2006 3:03 PM | Noel Sheppard
Whenever comedians make jokes about America or its people, folks are quick to defend their statements as being innocent and intentionally sarcastic just to evoke…
August 31st, 2006 4:30 PM | Tim Graham
Sitting in the CNN green room in Washington today and staring at the tube during "Live From" at about 2:10, I noticed a promo for a big show this weekend starring President Bill Clinton. On…