Post Peddles Liberal Spin on Abstinence-Ed Study
April 15th, 2007 1:57 PM
UPDATE at bottom of postCiting a new study that shows no statistical difference in sexual activity between kids taught abstinence-only sex ed and kids taught about contraceptives, the April 14 Washington Post presented the results as a moral and scientific vindication for critics of abstinence-only education.From the get-go, abstinence-only proponents were dealt a short hand in reporter Laura…
Post Presents Radical Group Critical of Starbucks as Labor Union
April 12th, 2007 1:27 PM
Starbucks. Many Americans may think the Seattle-based coffee chain is generally well-liked by its employees and generally well-liked by liberals, but to some left-wing organizers, it's the new Wal-Mart. Sooner or later the Washington Post was going to notice. And so today's paper splashed its Style section cover page with a David Segal story about Daniel Gross, a "scruffy college grad" that…
Jay Leno to Dems: How Will You 'Stand Up to Terrorists When You're Afr
April 11th, 2007 10:50 AM
UPDATE with video link below jump.On the April 10 "Tonight Show," host Jay Leno joked about Democrats boycotting the Fox News Channel/Congressional Black Caucus Institute debate. Wondered Leno, "How are you going to stand up to terrorists when you're afraid of Fox News?"Maybe Jay should ask Time magazine's Joe Klein, who called the Fox News debate a "sordid event" that was a clever ploy to "…
John Edwards Drops Out of Another Fox News Debate
April 7th, 2007 6:04 PM
Not surprisingly, Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards has dropped out of another debate sponsored by the Fox News Channel. As reported by the Associated Press (emphasis added throughout):The Edwards campaign said it will not attend the September 23 debate in Detroit hosted by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, but officials added that Edwards is "looking forward" to a…
60 Minutes Ignores Warnings, Broadcasts Faulty Left-Wing Data on Drug
April 2nd, 2007 11:18 PM
The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report by the leftie big-government health care lobby group Families USA, which "60 Minutes" planned to highlight in Sunday's show, rested on faulty data.
The…
Law Firm Dems Hired to Probe Attorney Firings Gave Heavily to Dem Camp
March 28th, 2007 11:15 PM
This is a developing story, so there's room for it to play out a bit, but the law firm congressional Democrats are hiring to help plow through the U.S. attorney firings, Arnold & Porter, has a history of heavy donations towards Democrats.From the last two paragraphs of a March 28 Associated Press story:[House Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers , meanwhile, has signed
a contract…
Time's Tumulty: Attorney Firings Deserve 'Massive Commitment of Journa
March 27th, 2007 1:51 PM
Writing in the "Swampland" blog for Time magazine today, Karen Tumulty insisted the U.S. attorney firings deserved "massive commitment of journalistic resources" before going on to cite a study showing that media attention in the past few weeks has skewed heavily towards the non-scandal scandal:... And
before all our commenters jump on me, let me stipulate: I think the
unfolding U.S. Attorneys…
Behind Kucinich: Will MSM Cover Hillary's Fifth-Place Finish in Dean O
March 23rd, 2007 10:48 AM
At the end of his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean started Democracy for America, billed as a grassroots Democratic political action committee "dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government." Last week, DFA staged an online Dem presidential candidate preference poll. As a proud DFA member [meaning that I joined the email list], I just…
