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Documentary: Chuck Norris Helped Open Communist Romania to West

By Sarah Stites | January 1, 2016, 2:53 PM EST

During the darkest days of communism, Romanians had something to brighten their oppressed existence—illicit American movie parties. Under Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship, the Eastern European country had very little contact with the West. But thanks to T ...

'Progressives,' As Their Sex Harassment and Assault Problems Become Obvious, Won't Even Mention the Clintons

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 9:59 AM EST

Liberals and "progressives," who are supposedly big on dealing with "root causes," are apparently not interested in the root cause of their now-acknowledged problem of sexual harassment and abuse in their ranks. At Acculturated.com, Ca ...

WSJ and WashPost's Marcus Agree: Bill Clinton's Sexual History 'Is Fair Game'

By Tom Blumer | December 29, 2015, 11:46 PM EST

Just one week after CNN's Don Lemon shut down a guest who dared to raise the issue, there is now an agreement across the ideological spectrum that if Hillary Clinton is going to use her husband Bill as a campaign surrogate and go after her opponents& ...

Investor's Business Daily Notes Three Global Warming Stories The U.S. Press Has Ignored

By Tom Blumer | December 27, 2015, 10:36 AM EST

Yesterday, I noted that Associated Press reporter Karl Ritter actually wrote, and AP actually published, a story about how complying with the Paris climate agreement would require greenhouse gas emissions "To Drop Below Zero." Perhaps Ritter, wh ...

Investor's Business Daily: Media Blackout of FitzGibbon Sex Harassment Scandal Shows Double Standard

By Tom Blumer | December 23, 2015, 9:00 PM EST

On Monday, I posted on the virtually complete lack of establishment press interest in the story of Trevor FitzGibbon, the former owner of far-left PR firm FitzGibbon Media. Fitzgibbon folded on Thursday after allegations of serial sexual harassment and se ...

AP: San Bernardino Terrorist Massacre Was a 'Mass Shooting'

By Tom Blumer | December 17, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

Pity the poor folks at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press. The Obama administration, usually hyper-reluctant to characterize a domestic terrorist attack on U.S. soil as, well, a domestic terrorist attack, has actually had to admit i ...

HuffPo Advises Journalists: Don’t Give 'Islamophobic' 'Bigots' Air-Time

By Kristine Marsh | December 15, 2015, 2:19 PM EST

If you have ever wanted to read a politically-correct primer on how the liberal media works, look no further than this helpful how-to straight from the horse’s mouth: the Huffington Post. Senior media editor Gabriel Arana explained in his article, “5 Ways ...

AP Ignores Rabbi's Outrageous Politicized Invocation at White House Hanukkah Event

By Tom Blumer | December 13, 2015, 10:39 AM EST

Josh Lederman at the Associated Press spent the final two paragraphs of his Wednesday evening report on a meeting between President Barack Obama and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin describing "the White House's annual Hanukkah celebration. ...

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder and BLM Movement Hearts Venezuela's Maduro

By Tom Blumer | December 11, 2015, 12:15 AM EST

For those who still believe that Black Lives Matter is legitimate grass-roots movement which came out of nowhere in response to events in Ferguson, Missouri over a year ago, consider BLM co-founder Opal Tometi. Tometi somehow took the time and somehow fou ...

Real Life PC Principal Interrupts Ben Shapiro Speech

By P.J. Gladnick | December 9, 2015, 2:39 PM EST

His name is Dean Nafarrete, associate principal of Otay Ranch High School near San Diego.  I have no idea how his name is pronounced but it really doesn't matter since he seems to have doomed himself to being called "PC Principal" now and f ...

Compromised AP and Reporter Julie Pace Offer Predictably Uncritical Coverage of Obama's Speech

By Tom Blumer | December 7, 2015, 2:34 AM EST

At the Associated Press Sunday evening, White House Correspondent Julie Pace's coverage of President Obama's Oval Office address was predictably weak. One could cite at least a half-dozen problems with Pace's story, but two of them were par ...

Journalists Freak Out on Twitter: Pro-Life 'Extremists 'Want to Kill' Women

By Kristine Marsh | December 1, 2015, 4:34 PM EST

After a gunman entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Black Friday, wounding nine people and killing another three, journalists were quick to blame conservatives, Fox News and the pro-life movement for the violent tragedy. The knee-jer ...

Former AP Reporters: Wire Service Suppressed 'World-Changing' Story on 2008 Israeli Peace Offer

By Tom Blumer | November 30, 2015, 12:46 PM EST

In predictably disingenuous fashion, the Associated Press claimed in a November 18 story that "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has shined new light on the breakdown of a potentially history-altering round of 2008 peace talks." Abbas acknowle ...

College Protesters Demand Coverage Only From Media Backing Their Cause

By Randy Hall | November 24, 2015, 2:07 PM EST

Students and faculty members at the all-female Smith College in Northampson, Mass., apparently tried to avoid a repeat of an “ugly episode” at the University of Missouri, where a communications professor was caught in a video calling for the removal of an ...

IBD: Islamist Organization Involved in 'Screening' U.S.-Bound Refugees

By Tom Blumer | November 19, 2015, 5:51 PM EST

Add what follows to the long list of items we should be reading about in wire service reports but instead must find in the editorial sections of the nation's two leading business newspapers. An Islamist organization tied to the Muslim Brotherhood is ...