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All the Benefits, None of the Costs
CBS looks at savings from solar power, ignoring all the expenses.
Washington Post Buries Al Qaeda’s Statement Concerning Jordan Bombin
You would think that this would be front-page, headline news:“The insurgent organization al Qaeda in Iraq asserted responsibility Thursday for the blasts that tore through three hotels here the night before, the deadliest terrorist attack ever carried out in Jordan.“‘After studying and observing the targets, the places of execution were chosen to be some hotels which the tyrant of Jordan has…
Mapes Insists She's Both Liberal & Conservative, Unaware If Registered
Asked by Bill O'Reilly Thursday night on FNC whether she's a liberal, Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired in January for her role in the forged National Guard memos and representations she made to her colleagues, first put up the usual avoidance device of a liberal -- “I'm not sure what a liberal is” -- before insisting that “like a lot of Americans, I'm all over the map.” In the taped…
Olbermann Sees Alito's Judicial Ethics as "Throat-Cutter
On his Countdown show Thursday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hyped "new questions now concerning the judicial ethics of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito" because of alleged conflicts of interest, including the judge's participation in court cases involving Vanguard and Smith Barney, companies through which Alito owned mutual funds and stocks. Olbermann expressed his view that "it would seem…
WaPo’s TV Columnist Seems to Want MORE Sex on Television
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a new study yesterday indicating that the number of sexual scenes on television has nearly doubled since 1998. A Google search indicated that there have been upwards of 400 articles and Internet postings on this subject. For the most part, these articles have been at least moderately disturbed by these findings, while trying to offer some…