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NB Staff
 

Andrea Mitchell's Out of Touch Analysis on Anti-War Republicans

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Ten Years Ago, Clinton's Latin Trip Was Used to Smother Whitewater Hyp

Tim Graham
 

Liberal Bias At Sports Illustrated Isn't Constant, But It's Consistent

Tim Graham
 

Bush Brings 'Evil Spirits' to Latin America

Geoffrey Dickens
 

4th Quarter 2006 Home-Price Report: The Sky Is Not Falling

The Office For Housing Enterprise Oversight released its Fourth Quarter 2006 House Price Index (HPI) report (PDF) on March 1. Given the recent gloomy reporting about the industry, you may not know that housing prices nationwide actually went up a bit more in the fourth quarter (1.12%) than they did in the third (1.07%). Though there are certainly problematic metro areas, it would appear that the…
Tom Blumer
 

British Scientist Warns of 'Moral Danger Behind Global Warming Hysteri

The media’s contention of a scientific consensus surrounding the belief that man is responsible for global warming is whittling away faster than the New England Patriots’ lead against the Indianapolis Colts in the 2007 AFC Championship Game.The most recent act of skepticism – or should I say heresy given the zealotry exhibited by the global warming alarmists – came in the form of an op-ed written…
Noel Sheppard
 

The Reporting of Employment News Is Inadequate, or Worse; Here’s Why

Tom Blumer
 

Did NBC Misrepresent Thompson as Being Opposed to Overturning Roe

[see UPDATES at end of post] Fred Thompson, who is exploring the possibilty of a presidential candidacy, went on Fox News Sunday yesterday, strongly criticized Roe v. Wade and said the answer to it was "good judges." But on this morning's "Today," Andrea Mitchell flatly stated that Thompson doesn't want to overturn Roe. So where does Thompson stand on Roe, and how can we explain Today's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

AP Mourns: There Goes The Gay Neighborhood

Tim Graham
 

AP Protests U.S. Military Erasing AP Photographer's Pictures

Warner Todd Huston
 

WashPost Buries Lede on DC Gun Ban Story

In the March 11 Washington Post, staff writers Elissa Silverman and Allison Klein took a look at the men and women behind a legal challenge to the Washington, D.C., handgun ban. But in doing so, it seems they buried the lede.Information on one plaintiff came near the end of Silverman and Klein's 25-paragraph story:Dick Heller, 65, said he became involved in the firearms debate in 1997 after he…
Ken Shepherd
 

Environmental Group Throws Anti-Bush Vanity Fair Editor Congratulatory

Lynn Davidson
 

NBC Takes a Stab at 'Newpeats

The new media revolution brought about by the Internet Age leaves a constant vacuum to be filled for the traditional entertainment cycle on broadcast TV. You'll notice a lot of broadcast Web sites doing what they can to fill that void with extra footage, behind-the-scenes stuff, bloopers, "webisodes," and the like.But let's face it, when the new episodes are exhausted on the networks, we're not…
Ken Shepherd