It was January 2009, and Democrats were triumphant. Their party had won major victories in both the House and the Senate, and Barack Obama, arguably the most economically left-wing president in decades, had just won the White House on a promise to finally achieve what had eluded liberals for so long: universal health care. As [...]
Peter Suderman: How the CBO became the biggest impediment to ObamaCare, Reason Magazine
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Truth Behind Climategate and Hopenhagen
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The December 7th edition of PBS’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook is devoted t0 Climategate, public opinion on global warming, and the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen. Ashbrook’s guests included Juliet Eilperin, an environmental reporter at The Washington Post.
Ashbrook skewed the entire segment at the very beginning of the broadcast by musing
“Will Climategate derail Copenhagen? [...]
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Apparently Nobody on the White House National Security Team Takes Meeting Minutes
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For those of us concerned about President Barack Obama’s seriousness in prosecuting the War in Afghanistan, last night Sean Hannity offered a brand new cause for doubt – and it’s a doozy:
Video: Sean Hannity, 12/7/09
Hannity highlighted a Washington Post report recounting a jaw-dropping set of White House meetings with General Stanley McChrystal:
In June, McChrystal [...]
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Steven F. Hayward: Scientists Behaving Badly, Weekly Standard
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor [...]
Hey, Hey, LBJ: How Many Kids Did You Starve Today?
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last week, one of our hottest discussions on NewsReal involved the controversy over Bishop Thomas Tobin recommending that Congressman Patrick Kennedy not partake of communion as long as he is a proponent of abortion.
Former Johnson Administration official, Joseph Califano Jr. had a rather chilling op-ed in response to this principled action by the Bishop in [...]
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What year is it again? Media Matters’ selective outrage over… Willie Horton?
December 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
She’s so fi-ine, there’s no telling where the money went
She’s so fi-ine, there’s no other way to go-oo…
Sorry. Having an ’80s flashback there, thanks to the George Soros Steno Pool, otherwise known as Media Matters.
It’s a shame, really. Just yesterday, Media Matters and I had achieved a rapprochement of sorts, founded upon our [...]
Media Matters denounces global warming ‘false claims’ (no, not those ones…)
November 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Back in July, Media Matters scolded conservative columnists George Will and Mark Steyn for making “false claims” about global warming:
In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will repeated National Review Online columnist Mark Steyn’s false claim that “[i]f you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating [...]
Roman Polanski Affair Proves Hollywood Out of Step with America
October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When even leftists like Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski attack Hollywood, you can be quite certain that the glitterati have strayed incalculably far from the barest shred of common sense.
Such an attack took place on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last Friday. Robinson and Brzezinski opened by criticizing those far-left multi-millionaire actors and directors who had rushed to the defense [...]
Peter Collier – FPM
September 12, 2009 By 5 Comments
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