GMA’s Sawyer Slams the Appalling Consumption of Wasteful Americans

As part of ABC’s Earth Day "celebration," the Friday edition of "Good Morning America" featured another segment on just how wasteful Americans are. GMA anchor Diane Sawyer hosted a piece on the destruction Americans create simply by existing. The piece repeatedly hit the United States for producing so much trash. What follows is a sampling of some of Sawyer’s comments about her wasteful…
Scott Whitlock

NY Times Travel Section on Whitewater Prosecutor Ken Starr: 'As Distan

Clay Waters

GMA’s Cuomo Touts ‘Innovative’ Europeans; Approves of High Gas P

Scott Whitlock

Open Thread Friday

A group of kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on no baby talk. "You need to use 'big people' words," she'd always remind them. She asked Chris what he had done over the weekend. "I went to visit my Nana." "No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use big people words!" the teacher replied. She then…
Matthew Sheffield

MSNBC's Grotesque Partial-Birth Analogy: Issues 'Sucked Life' Out of G

When Republican strategist Michelle Laxalt began to describe the clinical reality of partial-birth abortion on MSNBC this morning at about 10:55 AM EDT, MSNBC host Chris Jansing cut her off, saying she didn't want to get into an "emotional debate." Of course not. Better to focus on the antiseptic "right to choose" without letting the gruesome reality of the matter intrude.In partial birth…
Mark Finkelstein

Baldwin's Name Calling: It's a Family Affair

Another UPDATE at bottom of post.Alleged actor Alec Baldwin can be pretty vicious, at least verbally. He's called Vice President Dick Cheney "a lying, thieving Oil Whore." During the Clinton impeachment, he said: “If we were living in another country, what we, all of us together, would go down to Washington and stone (Republican Congressman) Henry Hyde to death, stone him to death, stone him to…
Mike Bates

Global Warming Skeptic Rips Media Alarmists and 'Malevolent' Scientist

As a Canadian environmental consultant, Dr. Timothy F. Ball isn’t a household name in America...yet. However, his writings, speeches, and television appearances concerning the science and lack thereof surrounding anthropogenic global warming make him a distinguished member of the growing list of skeptics around the world desperately and passionately fighting to inject some facts into this…
Noel Sheppard

‘70s-Era Time Capsule Reveals Media Warnings of Global Cooling

Media theories certainly do change. In light of ABC’s aggressive promotion of the danger of global warming and the liberal solutions the network has embraced, I thought it might be a good idea to consider the ‘70s-era threat of global cooling. My parents recently unearthed a time capsule that they created in 1977 for the birth of my sister Kimberly. Included in the assorted memorabilia of the…
Scott Whitlock

Cold Irony: ABC's Sam Stuck in Snowfield for Report on Wind Power

Mother Nature must have a wicked sense of humor. She forced ABC's Sam Champion to report on anti-global warming initiative . . . . while standing in a field of snow in late April.Champion was there as part of Good Morning America's "Planet Earth 2007" segment, in which reporters chimed in from around the globe on various environmental initiatives. Diane Sawyer [badly alarmed by a warm spell…
Mark Finkelstein

Pentagon Official Refutes 'Time' Claim of 'Broken-Down Army

A senior Pentagon official has refuted "Time" magazine's depiction of a "broken" Army. Accusing "Time" of using incendiary language and of hyping the facts, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy Bill Carr made his remarks in the course of his appearance yesterday on the TV show this NewsBuster hosts, and in subsequent written comments. Sec. Carr was responding to…
Mark Finkelstein

WashPost Fashion Critic: Pricey John Edwards Haircuts 'A Breck Girl Mo

Tim Graham

Why Abstinence Education 'Fails

The authorities charged with implementing the abstinence-only curriculum don't like it, don't believe in it, and have done everything in their power to ensure that it should fail.
Lee Duigon

Drop the Scare Quotes – Call It Partial-Birth Abortion

The next time you hear a reporter use the term so-called 'partial birth abortion,' or the procedure that opponents call 'partial birth abortion,' keep in mind that he's making an editorial comment in the midst of his news report.
Robert Knight

Not with My Kid: Opting Out of Virginia's Mandated 'Cancer' Vaccine

If lawmakers really want to fight cancer with HPV vaccinations, they would mandate it for older girls, not pre-teens going into sixth grade.
Kristen Fyfe