NYT Op-Ed on Vanity Plates: 'Pro-Choice' Yes, Confederate Sons No

"We think Texas was right to reject the Confederate plates, but that North Carolina should have issued the abortion rights plates.  How can this be?  Are we merely siding with liberals in both cases?  No." Methinks the two professors who wrote those lines in a New York Times op-ed appearing today doth protest too much. Their column opines on a case before the Supreme Court deciding the…
Mark Finkelstein
January 10th, 2015 10:30 AM

Steve Kroft Denies Only One Revealing Charge Amid Adultery Allegations

There was a shocking report this week about adultery allegations against Steve Kroft. Through a spokeswoman Kroft only denied one charge which was actually the most believable part of the story.  
P.J. Gladnick
January 10th, 2015 9:48 AM

CNN's Christiane Amanpour Calls Charlie Hebdo Terrorists 'Activists'

The list of unhinged statements and rants coming from left-leaning journalists in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris is getting miles long. Among them all, one especially sticks out. In one of the earliest retreats to twisted, gutless characterizations of the Charlie Hebdo terrorists, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who is also ABC's global affairs anchor, called them "activists." Greg…
Tom Blumer
January 10th, 2015 9:23 AM

Dr. King: Nicki Minaj Will See Abortion ‘Was Bad for Me and My Baby'

Despite the media’s narrative, the loss of a little baby through abortion is not easily forgotten, according to pro-life leaders. Dr. Alveda C. King, pro-life activist and niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., and others spoke at a Washington, D.C. press conference Jan. 8 to launch “Healing the Shockwaves of Abortion,” a year-long initiative of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign to reach out to…
Katie Yoder
January 10th, 2015 9:00 AM

Santa Barbara Newspaper Building Vandalized Over the Word 'Illegals'

The Santa Barbara News-Press building has been vandalized due to criticism it received over a recent headline using the word “illegals” which, incidentally, described immigrants who entered and are living in the United States illegally.  It all started on Saturday, January 3, 2015, when The Santa Barbara News-Press wrote a front-page article titled “Illegals line up for driver’s licenses.”
Melissa Mullins
January 10th, 2015 8:27 AM

NYT's Martin Snidely Sizes Up GOP 2016: Doctrinaire, Angry, and Fat

New York Times political reporter Jonathan Martin went snide and condescending in his "Political Memo" on Republican presidential prospects for 2016, "In G.O.P., a Divide of Ideology and Age." Treating the Republican Party like a dour religious sect, whose opposition to Michelle Obama's stringent "health" campaign is equivalent to being "a cheerleader of artery-clogging calories," Martin used all…
Clay Waters
January 10th, 2015 8:07 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Still Lying About Hollywood's Communists

Hollywood is still making movies glorifying communists like blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo as the true libertarians and constitutionalists, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. Luckily, there’s a new antidote to this film’s message, a book called Hollywood Traitors by longtime Human Events editor Allan Ryskind.
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
January 10th, 2015 7:46 AM

Getting 'Edgy' and 'Sexy' Beside Serial Killers in Seventeen Magazine

Too typically, the cover of Seventeen magazine features former Nickeolodeon star Victoria Justice and “The Edgy Side You’ve Never Seen (Until Now).” The teen stars always have to “mature” into “edgy,” and in this case, it’s a “daring role on the gritty new MTV series Eye Candy.” Justice will play “a computer hacker who gets caught up with a serial killer.” She explained “It’s a very sexy…
Tim Graham
January 9th, 2015 11:28 PM

NBC Boosts Obama's 'Ambitious' College Plan; Touts His 'Generosity'

Friday's NBC Nightly News enthusiastically promoted President Obama's proposal to provide "free" community college education, to the tune of $60 billion over ten years. Brian Williams hyped the "ambitious offer that could help so many families." Chris Jansing asserted that the President's plan is a "a goal everyone can agree on," but also underlined that the multi-billion dollar program is going…
Matthew Balan
January 9th, 2015 9:03 PM

Is Shep Smith Saying Paris Gunmen Are Muslim As McVeigh Was Christian?

Maybe it's just my imagination, but it sounds like Fox News's Shepard Smith is suggesting that the Muslim fanatics involved in the Charlie Hebdo massacre were motivated by religion in much the same manner as that notorious Christian extremist, Timothy McVeigh. You remember, the one who spent months in prayer at his evangelical church before detonating a truck bomb outside the Murrah federal…
Jack Coleman
January 9th, 2015 7:54 PM

The U.S. Constitution and Religious Liberty

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a fascinating op-ed by William A. Galston, "The Christian Heart of American Exceptionalism," much of which I agree with but some of which I don't. Galston argues that the idea of American exceptionalism should not be discounted and that its primary source is the "durability of American religious belief" — mostly Christianity. Bravo.
David Limbaugh
January 9th, 2015 5:44 PM

Liberals Use of Black Americans, Part II

Last week's column focused on the ways liberals use blacks in pursuit of their leftist agenda, plus their demeaning attitudes toward black people. Most demeaning are their double standards. It was recently reported that Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House majority whip, spoke at a 2002 gathering hosted by white supremacist leaders when he was a Louisiana state representative. Some are calling on…
Walter E. Williams
January 9th, 2015 5:37 PM

Vox Writer Claims 'Love' Cover Shows Need for Charlie Hebdo Magazine

Two days after 12 people who worked at the controversial Charlie Hebdo --  “a weekly, French satirical newsmagazine” -- were shot and killed by four gunmen -- Vox website content editor Max Fisher tried to assert the publication's importance by pointing to the “Love Is Stronger Than Hate” cartoon cover of the  November 2011 edition. The cover depicts Charlie Hebdo -- the magazine portrayed by a…
Randy Hall
January 9th, 2015 5:17 PM

CNN's Jim Clancy Melts Down on Twitter Over Paris Massacre's Cause

CNN's Jim Clancy has been with the network for 32 years. His network's bio says that he "brings the experience of more than three decades covering the world to every newscast on CNN International." He also apparently has a lot of pent-up feelings about the Middle East. Those feelings boiled to the top over Twitter early Thursday. Clancy started it all by claiming that the cartoons published by…
Tom Blumer
January 9th, 2015 4:22 PM