Dear Baltimore Sun: High Debt Reflects Irresponsible Gov't Spending

Making sense of the trade deficit.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Broder: Obama's First Week Goes 'As Well As Anyone Could Imagine

If you want to get an idea of the kind of rose-colored microscope Obama will be scrutinized with by journalists now that he's headed to the White House, you need look no further than David Broder's column in the Washington Post Thursday which actually began:The first week of Barack Obama's transition to the presidency has gone about as well as anyone could imagine. Hmmm. I guess no one could have…
Noel Sheppard

CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her

***Video Linked Below Fold***What is it about CNN that they have to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said in interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN's Political Ticker Blog on November 11, CNN had this absurd headline:Palin in Obama's administration? And followed that up with a paragraph that materially…
Warner Todd Huston

Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Salivates Over Obama Victory

The Chief Innovation Officer of the Tribune Company, Lee Abrams, is salivating all over himself in excitement over the ways that corporation's newspapers could capitalize on Barack Obama's election. If you think Abrams couldn't top himself with his idea of boosting the circulation of the Los Angeles Times by repainting its news vans with different colors, he gives it a good try this time mixed…
P.J. Gladnick

So Now Time Tells Us: Obama The New FDR

Remember back during the campaign, when the Obama folks and their MSM cohorts adamantly denied that their man was a liberal?  That National Journal study that ranked him the most liberal senator?  Nonsense! Very misleading.  After all, this is the man who doesn't believe in a red America and a blue America, but in the United States of America. Someone with a history of reaching across partisan…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: The Obama Bear Market.The voters may be full of hope about the looming Obama Presidency, but so far investors aren't. No President-elect in the postwar era has been greeted with a more audible hiss from Wall Street. The Dow has lost 1,342 points, or about 14%, since the election, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting similar skids. The…
NB Staff

Can't Afford Health or Heat...in Liberal Hub of Boston

There's economic trouble in the land with people unable to afford proper health care or heat for their homes ABC and NBC contended on Wednesday night. And where did the network journalists travel to find the heart-rending anecdotes of people in pain thanks to the awful Bush economy? Some Republican area with harsh conservative politicians who have slashed government funding to the poor? No, to…
Brent Baker

Ex-Palin Aide Mocking Her as 'Foolish' Also Worked for Alaska Democrat

Tim Graham

Huffington Post Distorts Palin's 2012 White House/Prayer Comments

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Warner Todd Huston

Media Have a Proposition for Calif. Churches: You're Bigots

Two days after California voters upheld man-woman marriage by voting for Prop. 8, the media stopped reporting the facts and started beating its civil rights drum.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Barbara Walters Uses Pregnant 'Man' to Redefine Sexes, Family

In her quest to revise America's understanding of man and woman, the veteran ABC news celebrity covers up the essential fact: Thomas Beatie is, in reality, a woman.
Colleen Raezler

Couric Advises Gov. Palin to 'Learn About Governing'...Seriously

In today's Pot Calling the Kettle Black moment, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric advises Sarah Palin to "keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing." When you stop laughing, consider that I'm not kidding.Really. I'm not. Here's what Couric told the New York Post's Richard Johnson at Glamour Magazine's 2008 Women of the Year Awards Monday (file photo):
Noel Sheppard

Liberal Talker Fired Over 'Joe The Plumber' Rant

Danny Glover

CNN Implies Conservatives are Partially to Blame For Murders of Illega

On Wednesday’s Newsroom program, a report by CNN correspondent Joe Johns, along with a subsequent interview by anchor Rick Sanchez, raised the implication that anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, particularly from conservatives, might be partially to blame for a spike in so-called hate crimes against Latinos. During a clip in Johns’ report, which was about the recent murder of an immigrant from…
Matthew Balan