Dear NY Times: Paul Krugman's Treason

Columnist's assertion about treasonous cap-and-trade opposition is wrong.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

GMA: ‘Secret Life’ Gives ‘Great Advice’ to Teens

Catherine Maggio

'World News' Promotes Anti-Agribusiness Flick

ABC portrays 'Food, Inc.' documentary's claims about contamination as true nature of modern industry farming, cites recent beef recall.
Jeff Poor

Cap and Trade Nowhere in USA Today

On June 26, the House narrowly passed the controversial Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy & Security Act to limit carbon emissions, but USA Today readers can be forgiven for not knowing it. Instead of covering a hotly debated bill that could result in “the largest tax increase in history,” the newspaper devoted its’ coverage to the death of pop star Michael Jackson. From June 26 to June 29…
Sarah Knoploh

Media Ignore Further Questions Over Obama-Fired Inspector Gen Walpin

Apart from several reports on FNC, and a few on CNN, the mainstream television news media have ignored the controversial firing of former Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who had recently battled for tougher penalties against Obama friend and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson after an investigation by Walpin found Johnson had misused hundreds of thousands of tax dollars granted by the AmeriCorps…
Brad Wilmouth

In '93, PBS Essayist Called Michael Jackson the 'Crotch-Grabbing Self

Tim Graham

Even in NYC Valedictorians Story, It's All About Obama

Bleech: "Call them members of the Obama generation: Seven of New York City's valedictorians, invited to discuss the future - theirs, the city's, the world's - could not help circling back to themes resonant from President Obama's historic campaign: diversity, globalization, cooperation, hope."
Clay Waters

Even Liberal Dissenters in Firefighter Case Thought Sotomayor Goofed

Here's something most likely to go unnoticed as the mainstream media continues reporting on the fallout of the New Haven firefighter case. In his "Bench Memos" blog, National Review's Ed Whelan explains in "9-0 Against Sotomayor" how even the four liberal justices in today's Ricci v. DeStefano ruling thought Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor goofed in issuing summary judgment for New Haven…
Ken Shepherd

Eliot Spitzer on MSNBC: Dems Only Appoint Moderates to Supreme Court

While discussing the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court on MSNBC Monday, guest Eliot Spitzer made a startling observation: "Democratic presidents nominate very centrist justices to the Supreme Court. The Republican presidents over the past 10-15 years have nominated very extremely conservative justices and that’s why the court has eschewed to the right."[audio available here]…
Kyle Drennen

Rather: Sotomayor Would Be 'Very Good' Supreme Court Justice

As Dan Rather sees it and decrees it, Sonia Sotomayor will make a fine Supreme Court justice. So the former CBS Evening News anchor told MSNBC's Carlos Watson this morning. The pair were discussing the impact of the high court's reversal today of Sotomayor's pro-affirmative action ruling in the New Haven firefighters case.In Rather's opinion, while Sotomayor would have preferred the Supreme Court…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

Krugman Accuses Republicans Of 'A Form Of Treason

Remember the good old days—when dissent was patriotic?  Fuggedaboutit.  Dissent isn't merely unpatriotic now.  It's downright treasonous.  Just ask Paul Krugman.If, like virtually all House Republicans and a handful of Dems, you don't agree with the likes of Henry Waxman on the need to take radical measures on the climate, you're guilty of . . . "a form of treason."  Treason against the planet,…
Mark Finkelstein

Time: Obama Decides to Declare No D.C. Church Home

Tim Graham

MarketWatch and Rex Nutting Get GDP History Wrong

Those who have followed my posts for a while know that I have a particularly low regard for the work of MarketWatch's Rex Nutting (pictured at right). It goes back to the pre-housing mess days when he tried to tell me that the the drop in housing prices would look like the 75%-plus drop in the NASDAQ from 2000-2002 or the collapse of Dutch tulip prices centuries ago. As of April 2009, according …
Tom Blumer