The Search for the Housing Bubble Hits a Snag in the Latest OFHEO Repo

Update: SEE Editor's Note at bottom of post for related MRC content.1Q07 Home Prices Up 0.5%, 4.3% Over 12 Months AgoThose looking for a pervasive and severe nationwide decline in home prices are going to have to keep looking. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) just released its House Price Index (PDF) for the first quarter of 2007. This most comprehensive of home-price…
Tom Blumer
 

ABC’s Global Warming Piece Ignores Decades of Hysteria from NASA's J

ABC’s Bill Blakemore wrote an article posted at the network’s website Tuesday citing global warming alarmist and NASA scientist James Hansen as stating that the earth is at a tipping point “with dangerous consequences to the planet” (emphasis added):With just 10 more years of "business as usual" emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, says the NASA/Columbia paper, "it becomes impractical…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

Ball room blitz! Okay, not really, just another open thread. Discuss, debate, pontificate, tell us your favorite glam rock song, offer NB editors your suggestions. Whatever's on your mind. Name and town not needed if you wish to opine.
NB Staff
 

WashTimes: Ecuador, Bolivia Join Hugo Chavez in Media Crackdown

Ken Shepherd
 

NYT: Simplistic Conservatives vs. 'Complex,' 'Nuanced' Supporters of I

Clay Waters
 

PBS’s Charlie Rose Hosts Cozy Draft-Gore Manhattan Event, Airs It on

Tim Graham
 

Government Can't Contain One Guy, But MSM Believes It Can Keep Tabs on

Mark Finkelstein
 

Cindy Sheehan: 'Corporate Media' Inaccurately Labels MoveOn As 'The An

Tim Graham
 

Anti-Gun Chicago Priest Calls for Death of Gun Shop Owner - Media Sile

On May 29th a Catholic Priest from Chicago's St. Sabina Church joined a rally in front of a gun shop and called for the owner of the shop and all pro-gun legislators to be "snuffed out", yet, the media is strangely silent on the "Father's" extreme comments -- words one would think would be explosive enough to get media coverage. Father Michael Pfleger, known the city over for his overt political…
Warner Todd Huston
 

AP's Jennifer Loven: Reporter or Editorialist

Matthew Sheffield
 

Barroid

Irresponsible steroid use by pro athletes leads to invasive Texas law.
David Niedrauer
 

ABC's Tapper Points Out Thompson's 'Liberal Positions' on Campaign Fin

Brent Baker
 

LA Times Writer Defends Hugo Chavez Closure Of TV Station

P.J. Gladnick
 

Chicago Sun-Times: Bird Poop on President Is "Wishful Thinking

Mike Bates