NYT's James Risen Cheers Rumsfeld's Exit as 'Best Thing to Happen' In

Tim Graham
 

ABC's Sawyer to Obama: Is the U.S. 'More Racist or More Sexist

Megan McCormack
 

New UN Children’s Book Promotes Global Warming Fears to Kids

I guess we should have seen this one coming: the United Nations has published a children's book raising international fears about global warming. As announced this morning by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works (emphasis mine throughout):Nairobi, Kenya – A new United Nations children’s book promoting fears of catastrophic manmade global warming is being promoted at the UN…
Noel Sheppard
 

Courageous Police Recruits, Chatting With PM's Spokesman, Combat Hospi

Mark Finkelstein
 

Open Thread

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NB Staff
 

Would You Like Sugar with That

Greg Sheffield
 

Time Says Reagan Era Now Over? That's What They Said 13 Years Ago

Rich Noyes
 

‘Olbermann Watch’s’ Video Salute to the Next Edward R. Murrow

With all the gushing going on by the liberal media over Keith Olbermann, it’s only fitting that one of his foremost critics on the Internet, our friend at Olbermann Watch, would be reaching across the aisle after last Tuesday’s “historic” elections. What would be more appropriate given this supposedly new era of bipartisanship than a demonstration of solidarity between such foes?With that in mind…
Noel Sheppard
 

TV Commercial - White Kids Can't Win

How long do you think it will be that we must stay under the thumb of the kind of PCism that posits that all white people are evil, wrong, losers, stupid or otherwise weak and bad? Apparently Cisco Systems hasn't seen the end of it and that is why, in their TV commercial for their new TelePresence video conferencing system, the white kid loses. The commercial starts off with a white boy in an…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Misreading the Election Tea Leaves

It goes without saying that November 7, 2006, will be viewed by history as a bad day for the Republican Party. The question is, how bad?Despite suggestions by an exuberant media that this Democrat victory represented a significant change in the political makeup of the country, the reality is that it is way too early to come to any such sweeping conclusions. That didn’t stop Joe Klein from getting…
Noel Sheppard
 

Keith Olbermann, Anchorman's Role Model? Newscast of the Future

Tim Graham
 

Glowing Chicago Tribune Article About Rahm Emanuel Reveals Democrat Te

P.J. Gladnick
 

New Yorker Mag: Kicking Rummy When He's Down

Perhaps you've noticed, the left really, really hates Donald Rumsfeld? They won't even let him go away in peace because this very morning the New Yorker has taken the time to give him at least one more kick. In a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg titled,END OF THE AFFAIR, the New Yorker details the "heartsickness" that long time co-worker Kenneth Adelman has over his failed friendship with Donald…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Pelosi Sexism Alert: WashPost Offended by Bush's 'Disparaging' Decorat

Tim Graham