Seattle P-I Offers Bland Story on Seattle Garbage Crisis, Ignores Salt

"Garbage piles up, even after snow has melted," reads a December 29 Seattle Post-Intelligencer story posted to the Web site Sunday evening. Yet nowhere in the story by staffers Brad Wong or Eric Nalder was any blame for the garbage glut laid at the doorstep of the city's Democratic chief executive. Mayor Greg Nickels may be partly to blame for the trash backlog because of his stubborn refusal to…
Ken Shepherd

Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times from Campaign

History will tell that the New York Times actually endorsed John McCain as its preferred Republican nominee, albeit in a hold-your-nose fashion. History will also tell that the paper began souring on its former favorite "maverick" and moderate Republican almost immediately after he clinched the nomination and becoming the only thing standing between the White House and a historic Democratic…
Clay Waters

Rachel Maddow Drives Lame Auto Bailout Analogy Into Swamp

Jack Coleman

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: you tell us.
NB Staff

A Tale of Two Tax Cuts: Obama's Will Save Economy, Bush's for the 'Wea

'Nightly News' considers tax cuts an integral part of the Obama 'massive economic recovery plan,' ignores how rollback of Bush tax cuts would affect economy.
Jeff Poor

WaPo Touts Waxman, Pelosi, and Boxer as Pragmatists Who'll Reawaken 'S

Tim Graham

Parade's Campaign 2008 Highs and Lows -- Determined by Liberal Pundits

Tim Graham

Darn Israel and Hamas for... Wrecking Obama's Great Foreign Policy Pla

The Palestinians raise their kids to hate Jews. The Israelis have endured decades of acts of terror against their own children and have generally acted with forbearance in reply. The UN has been vehemently and irrationally anti-Israeli since day one. The questions of "right of return" and the "two state solution" have dogged international politics for a long time. And what is the Timesonline…
Warner Todd Huston

Today Show Ignores Counterpoint in Major Teen Sex Study

NBC's morning show hosts comprehensive sex education advocate and fails to mention problems with the study.
Erin Brown

Today Show Ignores Counterpoint in Major Teen Sex Study

NBC's morning show hosts comprehensive sex education advocate and fails to mention problems with the study.
Erin Brown

'Disheartened by What Bush Did to Us,' He Should Be 'Ashamed

Declaring President George W. Bush's “economic legacy is selfishness” for daring to propose letting people invest a portion their Social Security payments in the stock market, on Sunday's Meet the Press the Washington Post's Michelle Singletary charged Bush “should be ashamed of what he's left us.” The Post-based nationally-syndicated “Color of Money” personal finance columnist contended that as…
Brent Baker

Dickerson on 'This Week': GOP Opposition To Obama Sup. Ct. Nominee Wou

Mark Finkelstein

Fashion Writer: Michelle O's a 'Goddess.' Palin is 'Worst Dressed

It appears Obamamania has not only infiltrated British newspapers, but so has Palin Derangement Syndrome...even in the fashion section.Is there any safe place a person can go these days without being told Michelle Obama is "a goddess [who] stepped onto the world stage and made it her own...married to someone who is, frankly, a sex god," or that Sarah Palin is the "worst dressed" woman in the…
Noel Sheppard

NFL Sunday Week 17 Open Thread

It's the last week of the regular season, and Joe's got us covered.
NB Staff