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Associated Press-ing Bloggers
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I haven’t written anything about this one yet because, frankly, I don’t care what the AP thinks they are going to charge for using snippets of their stories. I will NOT abide by this nonsense of 5 words or $12.50 a word after no matter how many “rules” they claim to have ... More About: Press , Bloggers , Associated Press
A Lefty That Says ?Bush never lied to us about Iraq?
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic, has come under my scrutiny for his bias before, of course. I see one of my roles as keeping an eye on the bias in the media and to document and analyze that bias. But while I naturally focus on when the media get ... More About: Bush , Iraq , Lied
Labor?s Voice Louder Than Public Support
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Steve Peoples of the Providence Journal (Rhode Island) gives us a great reminder that the voice of the labor movement has far more power than it does public support. He details all the politicians, lobbyists and union reps intertwined in government in the State House and how, even if the people of ... More About: Voice , Public , Support , Labor
Change We Can Believe In
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton You’d better believe it. Senator Obama and his supporters dislike traditional Americanism, preferring the Darwinian doctrine of evolutionary change expressed in moral relativism. Senator Obama’s army of followers are energized by inexperienced and immature students and by Baby Boomer anarchists eager to relive their activist days of the 1960s and 70s. ... More About: Change
Gore-ging on Energy, 1 Year Later Gore?s Home Energy Use Climbs 10%
2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In February of 2007 a small group named the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published an interesting little story that made Al Gore , the king of global warming alarmism, look a tad foolish. The report that TCPR sent out showed that Al Gore’s own home was an energy hog. The TCPR report ... More About: Energy , Home , Year
CNN: Obama Poll Advantage Over McCain ?Enormous? ? in Europe
2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston CNN calls this serious news, apparently, but a recent report about a Pew Research poll of “more than 24,000 people in 24 countries” shows that foreigners favor Barack Obama over John McCain for president. Aside from the general “who cares” of it all, why is it news that people who wish the ... More About: Europe , Poll
Right to Work States See Higher Growth Than Forced Unionization States
2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A fellow named Will Franklin over at Willisms.com has done some number crunching and he has discovered that states that support a right to work policy grow at a much higher rate than states that are awash in forced unionization. From 2004-2007, no Right To Work state grew less than 5.1%, while ... More About: Forced , Growth , States , Higher
Police Threaten to Arrest Pastor for Anti-Islamic Tract!
2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. The police detective who headed the city/county Hate Crimes Division entered the office of a Baptist pastor, sat down and laid a tract (with the church’s imprint) titled “Allah Had No Son” on the pastor’s desk. (Allah may not have a son but he has three pagan daughters– al-’Uzza, al-Lat and Manah!) ... More About: Islamic , Arrest , Police , Anti , Pastor
Ohio Judge With Posters of Che and Obama in His Office?
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The AP had a short newsbreak story on Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge who ruled that the state must stop the method of executions in the state, saying that the “lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless death required by Ohio law.” Accompanying the short story is ... More About: Office , Posters , Obama
College Gives Credit for Obama Campaign Volunteers, None for McCain
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Is our children learning? It seems they are learning at least one thing; their college supports Barack Obama . Students at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are being presented with a new opportunity to indulge in what is being called a “gap year.” An idea popular in Europe, the “gap ... More About: Credit , Campaign , Volunteers
Hooray for gas pains
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Michael M. Bates Paying more at the pump has its benefits. For the first time in a long time, Americans are beginning to pay attention. And, by Jove, I think we?ve got it! Or at least some of us do. We?re realizing that leaving most of our energy needs in the hands of ...
Liars
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton The liars, it turns out, are liberal-progressives, not President Bush. Read ‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple. by Fred Hiatt, the Washington Post editorial page editor. In the editorial dated June 9, 2008, Mr. Hiatt writes: Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will find sites that offer more ... More About: Liars
Chgo Sun-Times: Now Greeley Says It?s Racist Not to Vote Obama
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, the Chicago media have decided that the meme for the 2008 general election is going to be that anyone who doesn’t vote for Barack Obama is a racist because this is the second editorial (that I’ve seen, anyway) in Chicago stating such a theory. Last week the Daily Herald voiced the ... More About: Vote , Times , Racist
News Flash: The Press Omits, Distorts
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton No surprise, here’s another example of left-wing liberal media presenting only a selected part of the facts in order to mislead readers, when all of the facts are a matter of public record. An Associated Press article headlined McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case includes the following sentence: Plame’s CIA identity ... More About: News , Flash , The Press
Chgo Sun-Times Claims Denial of Rev. Wright?s Honorary Degree an ?Injustice
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Leave it to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times to get her kufi in a twist over the decision by Northwestern University to withdraw the honorary degree they had intended to bestow upon Reverend Jeremiah Wright , Barack Obama’s racist “spiritual mentor.” In the sort of backwards logic of a woeful Black victim ... More About: Claims , Injustice , Degree
Testing the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Professor R. M. Carter James Cook University, Townsville Throughout the world, media news outlets have uncritically adopted the IPCC?s climate alarmism in their reporting and editorial stances. For example, a typical, egregiously untrue newspaper statement is that ?every credible piece of scientific advice we now have, including that of Australia?s peak scientific body, the CSIRO, ... More About: Global Warming , Human , Testing , Global , Dangerous
Supreme Court Creates Killing
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In a 5 to 4 decision, the idiots on the Supreme Court have decided that terrorists are covered by our Constitution, no matter where they are captured and held. This is as wrong headed a decision as can be imagined and two of the Justices, Scalia and Roberts, were scathing in their dissent. ... More About: Killing
Militant Atheism At U of Virginia
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The one thing that always makes me wonder about atheists is how upset they seem to get about nothing. After all, they claim that there is no God and that religion is based on myth and foolishness, don’t they? They claim it is all “nothing,” yet many of them are highly incensed ... More About: Atheism , Virginia
NYT Scolds Walmart for Conservative Connections, But NYT Hypocrisy Arises
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Several years ago, the New York Times thought they had a major story of Walmart working behind the scenes with several conservative think tanks and pundits to create Walmart policy. It happened that Walmart had asked groups such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute to guide ... More About: Hypocrisy , Conservative , Connections
Hostile Government Take-Over Bid
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton The just-stalled Senate bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions reflects a basic doctrine of the socialist religion: government bureaucrats are smarter and more effective managers than businessmen and should be empowered to set the rules for running private business. The attitudes and energies underlying the proposed Senate legislation to regulate emissions of greenhouse ... More About: Government
Flight 93 Update?
2008-06-17 06:19:00 Why the drag lines were removed from the Flight 93 crash site When the passengers and crew of flight 93 smashed their murderers to nothing on an open expanse of western Pennsylvania coal country, two towering sentinels stood silent witness to the heroic tragedy. ?Up on Skyline Rd.,? the news shot around Shanksville and Somerset, ?up by ... More About: Update , Flight 93
Democrats Try to Make Military Press Conferences Illegal
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Congressional Democrats announced early in May that they wanted to make “military propaganda” illegal. To achieve this goal they passed new legislation that strengthened previous legislation that is supposed to ban the Pentagon from indulging in “propaganda” for the military. This bill is supposed to stop the military from sending “any form of ... More About: Military , Press , Conferences , Make
Are Liberals Non-thinkers, Bigots, or Only Stupid?
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. Left-wing liberals are bad news for any nation while informed conservatives are a bright spot in a dark, dismal, and decadent day. That spot is brighter when those conservatives are Christians. Now, I?m not suggesting that all liberals are socialists, communists and traitors; some are only stupid, while others are simply bigots. ... More About: Liberals , Stupid
Blue Dog?s Obama Dilemma
2008-06-11 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In 1996 a small handful of Democrats won election to the House of Representatives because they were supposedly “conservative” Democrats. They were termed the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats. Of course, several stories have proven that none of them have lived up to their conservative claims and all have fallen lockstep into line ... More About: Obama , Dilemma
Miami Herald: 2nd Amendment is ?Mythical Right ?
2008-06-11 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Miami (FL) Herald let lose with another propagandistic broadside against the 2nd Amendment on Thursday featuring some more moaning and false statements about how horrible it is for America that the misnamed “assault weapons ban” has lapsed. There is much wringing of hands, waterworks, histrionics and over dramatics by the aptly ... More About: Miami Herald
FL Paper: Americans Want Out of USA, But NO Proof Offered
2008-06-11 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston This is the sort of report that immediately gets my BS detector up. A recent Palm Beach (FL) Post story is trying to claim that Americans are running to Europe to claim dual citizenship because the U.S. is so horrible for everyone here. Yet, even as the story is making the claim ... More About: Proof , Paper
And Will Obama Save Us From Our Sins?: Adoration Of Candidate Borders On Th
2008-06-11 00:00:00 -By Frederick Meekins As the United States edges ever closer to tyranny with freedom dieing a little more each year with the passage of new laws, the handing down of judicial rulings, and the promulgation of executive orders, it is assumed by increasing numbers that it is the role of government to provide for all of ... More About: Obama , Sins , Save , Borders , Adoration
Media Get it Wrong: 1 in 4 Teens do NOT Have STDs
2008-06-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Could science and statistics be beyond the media’s ability to understand and report upon them? One might be excused to think so by the hash the MSM made of the supposed claim that in the U.S. one in four teenaged girls have a sexually transmitted disease. On March 11, the CDC issued ... More About: Media , Teens , Wrong
Making Fun of ?Bush-isms,? Movie Reviewer Makes Self Look Uneducated
2008-06-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I was tooling about the Internets looking for movie reviews and came across a hilarious example of “stupid is as stupid does” that I just couldn’t resist fisking here. It is on a flashy, kitchy site called ioncinema, presumably where the cool kids meet to find out about all that’s new in ... More About: Bush , Movie
How Many Rights Are Democrats Willing to Forfeit?
More articles from this author:2008-06-10 00:00:00 -By Frank Salvato With the announcement that Hillary Clinton is abandoning her quest for the Oval Office the Democrat National Committee (DNC) ? and specifically the DNC?s Rules and Bylaws Committee ? has effectively selected the candidate for their party. I say selected because, by construct, the decision making process was taken away from the party ... More About: Democrats , Rights 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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