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Al Gore Proposes Using Supercomputer Projections to Scare People on Gl

ManBearPig!A funny thing happened on the road to global warming. Mother Nature is simply not cooperating. Germany's Der Spiegel noted this "problem" for global warming alarmists yesterday:Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others…
P.J. Gladnick

WaPo Explores the Guilt of the Millionaire Liberal -- or Marxist

Tim Graham

Sally Quinn Says Sarah Palin's a Rotten Christian (Unlike Reverend Wri

Tim Graham

NYT Discovers That Wars Cost Money

Really, who knew? In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call "the good war" (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general populace), the New York Times's Christopher Drew reported last Saturday for the Sunday print edition that sending more troops…
Tom Blumer

Newsweek: Ft Hood Happened Because Muslims Aren't 'Comfortable

Authors marvel that we Americans haven't driven Muslims to kill sooner.
Carolyn Plocher

Psychology Today Writer: Palin 'A Very Special Liar

Left resorts to psychobabble about 'narcissistic personality' to bash conservative star and former governor.
Dan Gainor

Huffington Says Glenn Beck Should Be Excluded from Freedom of Speech

Liberal blog co-founder likens popular Fox host's show to shouting 'fire in a crowded theater.'
Jeff Poor

GQ Magazine: Barack Obama - Leader of the Year, Sarah Palin - Dangerou

GQ Magazine is telling a tale of two leaders. On the one side you have Barack Obama, champion of the left, leader of the mainstream media; GQ's Leader of the Year. On the other side you have Sarah Palin, pariah of the right, dangerous and poisonous to the American way according to an interview in the very same publication. Think I'm kidding? I couldn't make this garbage up. I'm not sure what…
Terry Trippany

Flashback: Year Ago MSNBC Riveted by Palin's Turkey 'Carnage

One year ago tonight, Thursday, November 20 -- like today, the Thursday one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered “BREAKING NEWS” on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a man in the background behind her. Palin, then just weeks off the presidential campaign trail…
Brent Baker

NY Times Pushes Anti-Chamber Storyline for Resisting Climate Alarmism

Article trots out left-wing critics of organization president's opposition to 'impose a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.'
Jeff Poor

Matthews Insults GOP Congresswoman as 'Replicant From Blade Runner

Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, took GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to task for claiming that Republicans "passed civil rights bills in the sixties" as he accused her of having a bad memory, going as far as to compare her to one of the androids from the science fiction classic Blade Runner:Up next wait ‘til you hear the latest from Congresswoman, whoa! Wait ‘til you catch this. Well this…
Geoffrey Dickens

Were There 'Tribal Aspects' To The Anti War Protests

As Noel Sheppard pointed out in an earlier post at Newsbusters, Chris Matthews once again accuses the Tea Party goers of being too white:"This is a largely white -- almost no minorities in this crowd," reported MSNBC's O'Donnell live from the scene. Matthews reiterated, "Well, they look like a white crowd to me," later claiming, "I think there is a tribal aspect to this thing, in other words,…
Kathleen McKinley

Diversity Czar Lloyd and Marxist McChesney's Censorship Dream: The FCC

Multi-Directional Censorship (photo courtesy of) The Wall Street Journal's intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s National Broadband Plan.  With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. …
Seton Motley