Gore Losing the War: 59% Don't Believe Man Is Warming the Planet

He won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize, but a recent poll suggests the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore is losing his propaganda war to convince Americans carbon dioxide is destroying the planet.In fact, the number of people who believe that long-term planetary trends are responsible for the relatively small increase in temperatures in recent decades rose ten percent since last April while…
Noel Sheppard

CBS’s Schieffer Compares Obama to Lincoln

On Monday’s CBS Early Show, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer shared his thoughts on Barack Obama’s inauguration and made this comparison: "Well, people just want to be a part of it. It's like who wouldn't want to be a part of it if you could have been there when Lincoln gave one of his addresses or something...People really do feel this is a moment in history. And they want to be part of it."…
Kyle Drennen

Spike Lee: Hand of God Caused Economic Crisis to Get Obama Elected

Controversial filmmaker calls economic collapse that damaged McCain's bid for the presidency 'ordained.'
Jeff Poor

Corporate America Cashes In With Obama

Big business, the supposedly right-wing, conservative entity that thwarts "progress" and advocates against left-wing economic policies sure doesn't seem to be acting that way of late.Of course it never really does but that is beside the point. AP reporter Stephen Manning chronicles how corporate America is trying to cash in on Barack Obama's inauguration in an unprecedented, literal selling of a…
Matthew Sheffield

ABC Exclusive: Former Obama Pastor Admits to Being 'Arrogant...Evil

In a January 18 ABC News exclusive interview, former Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright confessed to, but did not repent of, his inflammatory rhetoric directed at the media. Wright's excuse:"They were arrogant, they were evil, they were devious and I responded in kind," Wright said. "I just talked to you about a 500-year tradition but you don't ask me one question about that because that's not…
Ken Shepherd

ABC Touts 'Obama-Stock' and 'The American Pilgrimage' of D.C. Visitors

During Monday's "Good Morning America," the show's anchors and reporters did not hold back on the hyperbole while discussing Barack Obama's inauguration. While co-host Diane Sawyer discussed those Americans who drove across country to see the inauguration of the 44th president, an ABC graphic trumpeted, "Inauguration of Barack Obama: The American Pilgrimage." During an earlier segment, referring…
Scott Whitlock

CBS’s Smith Climbs Aboard the Obama Train

On Monday’s CBS Early Show co-host Smith recounted being a passenger on Barack Obama’s inaugural train on Saturday: "On a freezing cold Saturday, people stood for hours just to get a glimpse. They wanted to be able to say in the years to come, ‘I was there that day when the train went through.’ In his fawning report, Smith used poetic language to describe the train ride from Philadelphia to…
Kyle Drennen

Dear WaPo: Why Does Lobbying Come as a Shock

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Dear NY Times: Hero's Impact on Stock No 'Coincidence

US Airways' market value increased predictably as a result of pilot's heroism.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Open Thread

NB Staff

Are We Entering Era of Global Cooling Alarmism

Pity the poor global warming alarmists such as Al Gore, James Hansen of NASA, and the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen. They went way out on the limb in promoting the absolute certainity of global warming and now Mother Nature is sawing it off behind them with the coldest weather in decades. To spare themselves complete embarrassment, you might have noticed that many media outlets and global…
P.J. Gladnick

Jon Meacham Sneers: Bush's Low Polls Prove He's Below Mediocre

Tim Graham

New York Times: 'It's Even Cool to Wave the Stars and Stripes' Because

Byron York from NRO's The Corner Blog noticed an interesting little tidbit in The New York Times on January 18. In the Times' recounting of all the interesting events going on in the Capitol surrounding the inauguration of The One, the Times seemed very excited that it was suddenly "cool" to be patriotic. WASHINGTON is suddenly hip again, infused with the heady double-barreled combination of a…
Warner Todd Huston

Michelle Obama, First Recessionista

The new First Lady's fashion choices may be affordable in the eyes of the media but they still remain out of the budget of many average people.
Colleen Raezler