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Bill Jefferson Lost House Seat, N.Y. Times Frets About Surge of White

Tim Graham

N.Y. Times 'Notable' Books List Skips Conservatives, But Promotes Time

Clay Waters

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says

Talk about arrogance, but apparently New York Times Columnist Timothy Egan wants to stop Joe the Plumber from being allowed to have his book published and calls the government oppressed blue collar man a "no good citizen" and a "no good plumber." Arrogantly, Egan imagines that Joe somehow doesn't deserve to have a book deal. Egan imagines himself more qualified than Joe to write a book and in…
Warner Todd Huston

AP Feels Sorry for Mexico Over Drop in 'Money Sent Home' By Returning

I suppose the Associated Press wants us all to feel sorry for Mexico. With so many illegals here either having trouble finding work or actually returning home, Mexico is finding that its citizens illegally in the US have fewer American dollars to send home. AP says the "situation is so serious" that the Mexican government is trying to create new programs to reinforce ties between illegals here…
Warner Todd Huston

Walters Talks With 'Lovable Little Fuzzball' Rush Limbaugh

After reading my colleague Colleen Raezler's piece about Barbara Walters' interview with "harmless, lovable, little fuzzball" Rush Limbaugh, watch the video:
Noel Sheppard

Sociology Prof's Solution To Detroit Meltdown: Unionize Toyota

Only a professor, preferably a sociology professor, one with way too much time on his hands, could have come up with this one.  His solution to the Detroit crisis that has the Big Three automakers on the brink of bye-bye?  Unionize their foreign competitors manufacturing in the USA!Now why didn't we think of that?  Because we're not Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan…
Mark Finkelstein

Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread

Let's do it again. Here are the rules: suggested videos should be tasteful, unoffensive, and sent this evening to both Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@hotmail.com). Please don't link videos in the comments section, for we want all content to be filtered.The phone lines are open!Our first submission is an oldie but goodie courtesy LighthouseJ (embedded right,…
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Military Report Questioning Global Warming Frightens Alarmists

If you needed any more proof climate alarmists are an extraordinarily deluded bunch that will do anything to protect their dogma, you got it Saturday when a 56-page report on military strategy incited ire because it included two paragraphs on global warming that don't perfectly fit Nobel Laureate Al Gore's agenda.In fact, all the brouhaha was largely about one sentence: "In many respects,…
Noel Sheppard

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Whacks Fox's Megyn Kelly on Palin Bias

Tim Graham

Weekend Captionfest II

Then candidate Barack Obama listens to Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano during an economic discussion in June 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama recently named Napolitano head of the Dept. of Homeland Security.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jeff Haynes)  
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Barbara Walters Looks for 'Fascinating' Flaws of Palin, Limbaugh

Colleen Raezler

Saturday Sports Open Thread

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