UN Downgrades Global Warming Risks, Will Anyone But Sen. Inhofe Notice

The UK Telegraph reported Sunday that the United Nations will significantly reduce its global warming assessment in a document set to be published in February (emphasis mine):The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent. […]The…
Noel Sheppard
 

Dictator's Death Bias: Pinochet Scorned, Deng Xiaoping Mourned

Tim Graham
 

Argh! Globe Just Doesn't Get How Weak Immigration Policy Hurts Workers

Mark Finkelstein
 

Kurtz Suggests Gregory's Nonpartisan, Just Reflecting Rest of Nonparti

Tim Graham
 

Herbert Calls For Surrender, Buchanan Agrees With Neo-Cons [No Typo

Mark Finkelstein
 

George Allen Says He Was 'Screwed' by the Referees, WashPost Says Who

Tim Graham
 

Brownback Likes ISG's Emphasis on 'Very Aggressive Regional Diplomatic

Mark Finkelstein
 

Media Ignore Foley E-mail Leaker and Possible Connection to Rahm Emanu

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct released its report concerning the Mark Foley page scandal on Friday, and the media banged the predictable drum about this all being a Republican cover-up. However, what was ignored or downplayed by virtually every press outlet was the revelation that the offensive e-mail messages between Foley and male pages were leaked to the media by the…
Noel Sheppard
 

CBS Plugs France's 3-Year Paid Maternity Leave, Subsidized Child Care

Brad Wilmouth
 

AP Admits to Using Unauthorized Sources

Robin Boyd
 

Gallagher Ga-Ga For Obama: 'Solid Ideas, A Moderate' [Update - Reply F

Let's be generous and chalk it up to the early-morning hour. Otherwise we'd have to come down hard on radio host Mike Gallagher, who as a guest on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend went ga-ga for Barack Obama. It's one thing to acknowledge as did Mike that Obama has appeal as a candidate. But, interviewed by Keran Chetry, it was Gallagher's praise for Obama's substance that shocked,…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Weekend Captionfest II: Anchors Gone Wild

NB Staff
 

Condemning Carter Brings FNW Together: 'He Should Have Stopped A Few B

Mark Finkelstein
 

Alec Baldwin Disses Jeane Kirkpatrick, Advocates Disbanding CIA

Arianna Huffington really needs to rethink access to her blog. Lately, the nonsensical ravings of her guests would be much more appropriate at Daily Kos than the Huffington Post.This abomination by actor Alec Baldwin is a perfect example. On the day America learned it had lost one of the classiest people to ever represent our country at the United Nations, Baldwin chose to disparage her in a way…
Noel Sheppard