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Michael Moore: The Republican Party Is ‘Dead,’ and Self-Righteous America Needs a ‘Timeout’

By Tom Johnson | December 29, 2015, 6:52 AM EST

In his new documentary, Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore jaunts around Europe showcasing what he deems enlightened social and economic policies, including Italy’s lengthy paid vacations, Norway’s treatment of prison inmates, and France’s school-lunch p ...

Rachel Maddow Show Producer Agrees With Obama That GOP Is Globally Unique, and Not In a Good Way

By Tom Johnson | December 27, 2015, 9:12 AM EST

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.) ...

‘Nightly Show’ Smears ‘Creepy’ Cruz; Will ‘Do Everything the KKK Does,’ Has Mental Problems

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 2:50 AM EST

In what may be the worst series of attacks by the liberal media on Ted Cruz, Monday’s Nightly Show on Comedy Central featured host Larry Wilmore declaring that the “creepy” Cruz may be mentally disturbed with guest Aida Rodriguez firmly asserting that, if ...

CBS and NBC Use Newtown Anniversary to Lament Lack of Gun Control; Compare It to Car Seats, Driver’s Licenses

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 11:43 AM EST

With Monday marking the third anniversary of the horrifying murders of 20 children and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News used the somber occasion to lament the lack of gun control passed by the GOP Congress ...

Vox's Sarah Kliff Goes Silent as Obamacare Co-Ops Collapse

By P.J. Gladnick | December 11, 2015, 8:48 PM EST

For years, first at the Washington Post's Wonkblog and now at Vox, Sarah Kliff has been happily chirping away about the wonders of Obamacare. She has been perhaps its biggest cheerleader by far. And then the predictable collapse of its cooperatives h ...

As Usual, AP Report on Deficit Fails to Note Far Larger Increase in National Debt

By Tom Blumer | December 12, 2015, 9:25 AM EST

For a change, Martin Crutsinger's coverage at the Associated Press of the federal government's November Monthly Treasury Statement wasn't completely full of rose-colored baloney. Crutsinger managed to note how auto-pilot entitlement program ...

NY Times Covers, TV Scarce: Rubio’s ‘Quiet Legislative Sabotage’ of Obamacare

By Michael McKinney | December 10, 2015, 2:57 PM EST

On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an article by reporter Robert Pear calling out Marco Rubio for taking the pen to Obamacare in the budget legislation from last year. On Thursday, it appeared on the front page with the headline “Rubio Measure Delive ...

MSNBC Feminists Roll Out Plush Carpet for Planned Parenthood

By Michael McKinney | November 30, 2015, 4:31 PM EST

Planned Parenthood executives appeared twice on MSNBC on Monday with female interviewers who acted more like facilitators than journalists. Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports. Mitchell noted that Republican respons ...

Fox’s ‘Minority Report’ Calls Out the Church for Hostility to Science and Causing People to Die

By Dylan Gwinn | November 24, 2015, 9:50 AM EST

Fox’s Minority Report has lost its collective mind. On Monday night, in an episode called “Memento Mori,” MR attempted to blame the Church for thousands of years of scientific and medical darkness. In this scene, a Senator is attempting to assuage the wor ...

AP Only Tells Readers That 'Several' Obamacare Co-ops Are 'Hurting'

By Tom Blumer | November 21, 2015, 12:38 AM EST

The press's reluctance to relay Obamacare-related bad news has been obvious for years. Nowhere is this more consistently the case than at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press. Over half of the state non-profit co-ops set up under ...

ABC, NBC, Spanish Nets Ignore United HealthCare Threatening to Leave ObamaCare Exchanges

By Curtis Houck | November 23, 2015, 7:42 AM EST

In the latest piece of ObamaCare news that the liberal media have chosen to ignore, ABC, NBC, and Spanish networks Telemundo and Univision skipped on Thursday night and Friday morning word from United HealthCare from Thursday that it may withdraw from Oba ...

Atlantic: Republicans Engage in Race-Baiting, But Might Not Be Racists

By Michael McKinney | November 19, 2015, 4:07 PM EST

On Tuesday, The Atlantic featured an article that lamented decades of Republican race-baiting in presidential campaigns. The piece by Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur allow that race-baiting “does not mean that those who employ them are racists ...

'Morning Joe' Questions Jerry Brown: 'Right to Die,' But Not 'Right to Try'?

By Michael McKinney | November 12, 2015, 12:49 PM EST

Thursday at the end of  Morning Joe, the roundtable invited Darcy Olsen of the free-market think tank, the Goldwater Institute, to discuss Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of “Right to Try” legislation  in California. The discussion centered on the book “The ...

NBC Skimps on Report V.A. Paid $142 Million in Bonuses Amid Scandal-Ridden 2014

By Curtis Houck | November 12, 2015, 9:53 AM EST

On Wednesday night, NBC Nightly News neglected to inform its viewers of a new report concerning the scandal-ridden Department of Veterans Affairs and the $142 million it paid out in bonuses to employees (including some who were facing discipline and/or re ...

Hey Wall Street Journal: Open Borders-Amnesty is the Hugest Cronyism of All

By Seton Motley | November 9, 2015, 1:13 PM EST

The political definition of Cronyism is: government policy that favors one or more specific beneficiaries- at the expense of everyone else.  To wit: $80 billion of the 2009 “Stimulus” was wasted on “green energy” companies- 80% of whom were Barack Obama d ...