Coldest August Day in NYC in Almost a Century

All you global warming skeptics, deniers, and court jesters better stow your potables, combustibles, and sharp objects safely from proximity of electronic equipment, because it was absolutely a frigid August day in the Big Apple Tuesday. HOW COLD WAS IT? Well, as reported by WCBSTV.com, this is the coldest August day in New York City in almost a century (h/t NBer Dave in Texas, emphasis added…
Noel Sheppard

WaPo's Kurtz Defends Plante's 'Smart-assed' Question

In the appropriately-titled "Media Backtalk" chat on August 21, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz defended a fellow reporter's self-described "smart-assed" remark to President Bush about adviser Karl Rove's political acumen.Kurtz defended CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante's August 13 question as "the Sam Donaldson technique of trying to get the president and top aides to say…
Ken Shepherd

Reuters Headline: ‘Climate Change a Security Issue Like Cold War

So, did you know that climate change is the biggest security challenge since the Cold War? Hadn't heard that? Well, you're just not reading the finer alarmist wire services!As extraordinarily reported by Reuters Tuesday (emphasis added):
Noel Sheppard

Libs Love Books--Or Do They

Liberals around the country are smiling today at an Associated Press poll and story circulating on the web claiming that conservatives read less than liberals, none more so than former Colorado Democratic congresswoman Pat Schroeder who despite being president of the American Association of Publishers decided she felt like insulting half of her potential reading audience by dusting off an old…
Matthew Sheffield

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Slams CNN Specials on Christian, Jewish Extr

On Tuesday’s "Morning Joe," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mocked the very concept of CNN’s upcoming specials on Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremism. Anticipating the possible moral relativism that the Christiane Amanpour-hosted series may take, Scarborough sarcastically observed, "They’re going to study Muslim extremism, then Christian extremism, because we know Christians have, have slaughtered…
Scott Whitlock

Time: Housing Blues Caused by 'Magic of Wall Street,' Not Irresponsibl

Jeff Poor

Time Magazine Blames Lenders, Makes Case for More Mortgage Regulations

Time suggests home buyers are lured in by mortgage lenders and home builders, but ignores borrowers' personal responsibility.
Jeff Poor

San Antonio Paper Axes Conservative Cartoonist, Keeps Liberal One

Matthew Sheffield

Disgraceful Anti-Semitism on CNN Special ‘God, Sex and Greed

On Monday evening, CNN began a three-part special entitled "God, Sex and Greed." At issue: in a supposedly religious country like ours, why are sex and greed so prominent? With that as the premise, who do you think CNN chose as one of the examples of greed in our country? Disgracefully, a 24-year-old Jewish hedge fund manager who took his Bar Mitzvah money and turned it into millions. Nice…
Noel Sheppard

Kansas Court: Illegal Immigrants Not Really Illegal; Media Outcry Pend

Craig Bannister

NYT's Frank Rich Sermonizes on 'Dark Heart of Rovian Republicanism

Clay Waters

NYT Twists Data: Makes Great Personal Income News Appear Awful (UPDATE

Try to imagine what the New York Times did with the following data: Go ahead. Then go to the full post to find out.
Tom Blumer

‘Nightly News’ Slams American Airlines With Flawed Comparison

Jeff Poor

ChiTrib Readers Overwhelmingly Support Arellano Deportation

Ken Shepherd