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WashPost Promotes Green Groups on Their Newest Stage: 'Greening' Colle
In Monday’s Washington Post, reporter Darryl Fears reported on the latest crusade of green groups like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council: “greening” the college football stadium.
"Ohio State worked with food vendors to switch from plastic to fiber nacho trays because plastic couldn’t be recycled with cheese stuck to it,” said Corey Hawkey, the university’s “…
September 2nd, 2013 9:14 AM
IPCC Draft: 'Extreme High Sea Levels' Not Assessed, But Still Consider
At the New York Times's "Dot Earth" blog, Andrew Revkin reports that "the science on a connection between hurricanes and global warming is going in the opposite direction" — as in, the evidence that the connection between human-caused global warming (overgenerously assuming that there is any) and hurricane intensity or frequency of "heavy precipitations events," as shown in a "snapshot" of a…
September 1st, 2013 10:47 PM
The Spin Begins: White House 'Gird[ing] for Battle with Congress' Over
The president's call on Saturday for Congress to debate and pass a resolution authorizing airstrikes against Syria also served as a telegraphed message to the liberal media about how to spin the message in a way that puffs the president politically while turning a serious question of foreign policy and use of military resources into a domestic political grist for the 2014 midterms.
Well, the…
September 1st, 2013 10:18 PM
That Awful 'Racist' Reagan Visited Victims of Md. Cross Burning in
Earlier this evening at NewsBusters, Tim Graham noted that the Washington Post gave space, in an item entitled "Reagan Historians to Decry 'Ahistorical Caricature' as Racist in 'The Butler' Movie," to refute the false portrayal of the Gipper in that film.
One more anecdote should be added in rebuttal to counter the "Reagan was a racist" lie. I'm referring to an event in 1982. Note that the…
September 1st, 2013 8:31 PM
WaPo Claims Black-White Income Gap 'Hasn’t Narrowed in the Last 50 Y
Among ten charts presented by Brad Plumer at the Washington Post on Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington, all meant to show that "the black-white economic gap hasn’t budged in 50 years," is one which purports claims that "The gap in household income between blacks and whites hasn’t narrowed in the last 50 years."
Words…
September 1st, 2013 6:33 PM
WashPost Allows Reagan Historians to Decry 'Ahistorical Caricature' as
Kudos to the Outlook section editors at The Washington Post for allowing presidential historians Steven Hayward, Paul Kengor, Craig Shirley, and Kiron Skinner to address how the movie “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is inaccurate and unfair about Reagan, who they say proved his lack of bigotry in Dixon, Illinois, in Hollywood, and in the White House.
They recalled a 1983 reception for the National…
September 1st, 2013 6:15 PM
Politico's Dylan Byers: 'Iraq Casts Shadow' Over Media Coverage of Syr
It's been a decade since the U.S. and its coalition of nations invaded Iraq and sent Saddam Hussein scurrying to an underground bunker. As time passed and no weapons of mass destruction were found, the media accused President George W. Bush of relying on “bad intelligence” that led to a “disastrous fallout" in that violence-drenched nation.
Ten years later, Dylan Byers -- media reporter for…
September 1st, 2013 5:45 PM
IBD: Fed's Economic 'Easing' Didn't Help Much
The Federal Reserve has spent more than $2 trillion buying up assets since 2008 (often government bonds and mortgage securities) in an attempt to shore up the economy. Proponents argued what was called “quantitative easing” or QE was necessary “based on the idea that without it, the nation’s economy would have imploded,” according to Investor’s Business Daily.
But a new Fed study that looked…
September 1st, 2013 4:21 PM
Stringent Air Quality Standards Might Have Added to Yosemite Fire, Wil
As the fourth largest wildfire in California continues to burn around and inside Yosemite, investigators are examining what the short and long-range causes of the fire are.
A report by Reuters Sunday claimed that stringent air quality standards in the Golden State may have been a factor.
September 1st, 2013 4:13 PM
After Many Pages of MLK Coverage, WashPost Finally Notices How Ralph A
The "civil rights" elite are still putting the memory of Martin Luther King's lieutenant Ralph Abernathy into the deep freeze. On September 1, four days after all the 50th anniversary events were done and after many Post pages were filled with gauzy memories, Washington Post reporter Michael Fletcher noticed that "save for an invitation to a White House reception that she said came too late to…
September 1st, 2013 3:12 PM
ABC's Terry Moran: 'Obama's Leadership Image in Syrian Opposition Prob
It's becoming apparent the Obama-loving media are displeased with the President's decision to seek Congress's approval to strike Syria.
On This Week Sunday, ABC News chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran said, "Obama's leadership image in the Syrian opposition is probably at an all-time low right now" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
September 1st, 2013 1:39 PM
Peggy Noonan: 'The President Blinked
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan had some harsh words for Barack Obama Sunday.
Appearing on ABC's This Week, Noonan said of the White House's surprising announcement Saturday that it was going to ask Congress for approval to strike Syria, "I think everybody pretty much views it as the president blinked."
September 1st, 2013 1:03 PM
Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Handling of Syria ‘Case Study in How Not T
In 2011, CNN's Fareed Zakaria revealed that he advised President Obama on foreign policy.
On his GPS program Sunday, Zakaria lambasted the current White House resident saying, "[T]he administration's handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to do foreign policy...the manner in which the Obama administration has first created and then mismanaged this crisis will…
September 1st, 2013 11:12 AM
Robert Reich Wants Students to March Like the Germans
The Sunday newspaper supplement Parade magazine has a cover story on "Putting America Back to Work," and promises as a guru "Robert Reich on the future of manufacturing jobs." Inside, Reich's article is titled "What America Needs Now."
Like a good liberal, Reich insisted "we should follow Germany's lead." America's high schools need a fifth year for what liberals call the working class:
September 1st, 2013 8:38 AM