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Time.com Writer Cites Temperature at North Pole, Alaska As From THE North Pole

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 10:00 AM EST

The temperature in the Fairbanks, Alaska suburb of North Pole earlier today was apparently in the low-40s Fahrenheit. It was then that Alexandra Sifferlin at Time.com reported the Alaska town's temperature as if it came from the North Pole. The only ...

New York Times Panics at Republican Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Buying the Las Vegas Paper

By Tim Graham | December 30, 2015, 9:12 AM EST

The New York Times is transparently panicking about republican-backing billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s secretive purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In a Monday article by Barry Meier and Sydney Ember, they strongly imply that it’s okay when billionai ...

AP Ignores Minnesota Terror Suspect's Involvement With Airport De-Icing

By Tom Blumer | December 26, 2015, 1:51 AM EST

In a year-end interview with National Public Radio, President Barack Obama largely blamed "a saturation of news" coming from a media which "is pursuing ratings" for growing concerns in America over the ability of ISIS and other terrori ...

Press Yawns As Univ. of Louisville Advertises Asst. Prof Position For Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans Only

By Tom Blumer | December 21, 2015, 10:55 PM EST

Did you hear about the university which advertised for "a tenure-track Assistant Professor position that will be filled by a White American or Asian American"? Of course you didn't, because it didn't happen. But it's not difficult ...

Jerry Brown's Admiration For 'Coercive Power of Government' Gets Little National Media Attention

By Tom Blumer | December 14, 2015, 5:32 PM EST

Imagine a Republican or conservative governor boasting of his or her use of "the coercive power of government" to accomplish center-right policy goals. The political and media backlash would be furious — and justified. Such statist rhetoric is b ...

WaPo Rehashes Univision's Failed Rubio Drug Smear

By Jorge Bonilla | December 14, 2015, 1:08 PM EST

Well, it was bound to happen at some point.  “It”, of course, being that another top national media outlet would attempt to rehash and regurgitate the story at the heart of Univision's failed 'Get Rubio' strategy of 2011. The Washington Pos ...

Ferguson Media Darling Joshua Williams Sentenced to 8 Years For Arson

By Tom Blumer | December 13, 2015, 11:24 PM EST

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that Joshua Williams "was sentenced... to eight years in prison for starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley (a St. Louis suburb) after an officer-involved shooting there." The Dispatch apparently d ...

Planned Parenthood Admits Sending Aborted Babies to Landfills; AP Plays Defense

By Tom Blumer | December 12, 2015, 10:54 AM EST

The callousness towards human life at Planned Parenthood is such that it believes that the remains of preborn babies killed during abortions are just like any other "medical waste," and that sending them to landfills — or, perhaps even incinerat ...

Time Names Merkel 'Person of the Year,' Lauds Her 'Leading From Behind'

By Tom Blumer | December 9, 2015, 11:58 AM EST

In an announcement which deservedly carries far less weight than it has in the past, Time Magazine (1997 circulation, 4.2 million; current circuation, 3.3 million) has named German chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 Person of the Year. The stated reason  f ...

Venezuela Elections: The Guardian Castigates 'Country Club' Conservatives

By P.J. Gladnick | December 6, 2015, 3:13 PM EST

On the eve of the National Assembly elections of Venezuela in which many observers expect voters to express their extreme dissatisfaction with the the Socialist policies of the ruling Chavistas which have completely ruined the economy of that oil rich nat ...

NY Times: 'Angry...Seething...Almost Apocalyptic' Republican Candidates Promote 'Islamophobia'

By Clay Waters | December 6, 2015, 11:18 AM EST

The front page of Saturday's New York Times, next to the paper's already infamous front-page gun-control editorial, claimed that "Shootings in California Reshape the Campaigns." The language used by reporters Michael Barbaro and Trip G ...

After Islamic Terror, NYT Changes Subject, Takes Moral Preening on Guns to Front With Rare Page 1 Editorial

By Clay Waters | December 5, 2015, 7:52 PM EST

After the massacre by radical Islamists who killed 14 and wounded 21 more in San Bernardino, Calif., the New York Times took its tasteless grandstanding on gun control literally to the front, in a rare front-page editorial, " The Gun Epidemic," ...

MSNBC Gives Platform to Boxer to Insist That Saying Abortion Is 'Killing a Baby' Drives Violence Against Clinics

By Ken Shepherd | November 30, 2015, 6:25 PM EST

On the Nov. 30 edition of MSNBC's MTP Daily, pro-abortion rights absolutist Sen. Barbara Boxer was given free rein to draw a line connecting pro-life rhetoric with Friday's fatal shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. ...

'Victim' of 'Islamophobia' Three Years Ago Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell

By Tom Blumer | November 24, 2015, 9:50 PM EST

There are plenty of problems with the government's "no-fly list," and especially the plans by some congressmen and senators to abuse it. That said, it appears, almost three years later, to have gotten one name right. In late 2012 and early ...

Time Warner's 'News' Spins North Carolina City's Gun Turn-in Which Collected a Single 'Gun' As Positive

By Tom Blumer | November 23, 2015, 4:26 PM EST

Time Warner Cable is trying to be in the news business, and is currently engaging in such efforts in 22 locations in five states. Unless it wants to be yet another unreliable, hopelessly biased news source, it needs to try harder. Take this November 14 re ...