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NB Staff
 

Hillary's Orwellian Health Care: Mandating Coverage = Choice

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength" -- Slogan of the ruling party in George Orwell's "1984"With the health care proposal she is about to introduce, Hillary Clinton adds another spooky non sequitur to the list: Compulsory Coverage is Choice. Will the MSM take notice?
Mark Finkelstein
 

Daily Kos Thanks Hillary for Calling General Petraeus a Liar

P.J. Gladnick
 

A Cursing Flying Nun? Sally Field Says No 'God----' Wars If Moms Ran W

Tim Graham
 

Schizo? NYT Ticked Taxes Can't Be Cut More

If there's one thing that the New York Times editorial page has inveighed against for the last six years, it's those horrid tax cuts that the Bush administraton pushed through. But now that the economy might be encountering some turbulence, the Times regrets, of all things, that taxes can't be cut more. Here's how the Times frames its plaint in this morning's "As the Economy Turns Down" […
Mark Finkelstein
 

Reuters: Wooly Mammoth Dung Speeds Global Warming

Now, you’re gonna read that headline and laugh imagining that I must surely be employing the best hyperbole. Reuters can’t possibly be touting a story that says wooly mammoth dung could be making global warming worse… could they? I am sad to say that they are, indeed, making this claim in a story on the crackpot theories of a Russian “scientist.” I know, I know. It seems like an entry from “The…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Harvard Mag.: 'Right Wing Shanghaiing Values... U.S. Not Same Country

Harvard Magazine, a magazine that caters to the alumnus of Harvard University, gives us the blather of one of their professors, Howard Gardner, who is despairing on how we eeeevil conservatives are taking over his country. To start with, the short Harvard Mag piece tries hard to explain why anyone should care about Gardner. Apparently it's mostly because of his 1983 theory of "multiple…
Warner Todd Huston
 

WashPost Ombud Shames 'Opus' Censors: Even CAIR Wasn't Offended

Tim Graham
 

Weekend Captionfest II

NB Staff
 

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Hsu Scandal Makes Bill Clinton a Drag on Hill

Since the Norman Hsu campaign finance scandal first broke weeks ago, conservatives have wondered when liberal media members will get concerned about how this might impact the presidential aspirations of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). If Sunday's "The Chris Matthews Show" is a barometer, the news is not good for Hillary supporters. As The Anchoress accurately reported Saturday, NBC's Andrea…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN’s Howard Kurtz Supports Bush Speaking With Milbloggers

A truly extraordinary event occurred on CNN Sunday: Howard Kurtz actually supported President Bush sitting down with milbloggers to discuss what's going on in Iraq.I kid you not. When this issue was raised on the most recent installment of "Reliable Sources" - that Bush had a meeting Friday attended by ten military bloggers - it seemed almost a metaphysical certitude the President would be…
Noel Sheppard
 

Vietnam War Memorial Defaced a Week Ago; Park Service Reluctant to Tab

Tom Blumer
 

Open Thread

Will MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad be a large enough rallying cry for Republicans to become a seminal moment in politics?
NB Staff
 

Frank Rich Paints Petraeus as Coward

See Update at foot with list of Petraeus press appearances.The gravest charge you can level at a military man, as MoveOn.org essentially did to Gen. Petraeus with its infamous "General Betray Us" ad, is to call him a traitor.But close behind in the catalog of calumny is to call a soldier a coward. And that's effectively what Frank Rich did in his [p.p.v.] New York Times column of today.Writes…
Mark Finkelstein