FBN's Asman Blasts 'Atrocious Anti-Cop NYT Editorial' — and Its Timing

In the midst of properly blasting the New York Times for its disgraceful editorial attacking the NYPD, Fox Business News's Davd Asman has raised an important question which goes to the paper's fundamental integrity. Specifically, did the Times acquiesce to active efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's office encouraging them to go on the attack, effectively serving as his mouthpiece? The question…
Tom Blumer
January 3rd, 2015 12:13 AM

NYT Loves Big Govt: 'Public Sector...Once Again Adding to Prosperity'

The big-government supporters at the New York Times offered two classic big-government news stories on the front of its Business section two days in a row. On Friday: "Government Spending, Edging Up, Is a Stimulus." The text box underlined the pro-government spending sentiment: "The public sector is once again adding to prosperity." On Thursday: "Hourly Wage Is Going Up for Millions." The online…
Clay Waters
January 2nd, 2015 9:05 PM

Technology, Not Politics, Is Leading The Way in 2015

For decades, American presidents urged the American people to reduce our reliance on foreign oil imports by conserving energy. Nothing worked. In defiance of the prevailing political wisdom, individual Americans insisted that the answer was not cutting back on the use of energy but finding new sources of energy. When politicians tried to force people into smaller and more fuel-efficient cars,…
Scott Rasmussen
January 2nd, 2015 4:59 PM

Liberals Cynically Use Black Americans As Stalking Horses

Back in the day, when hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their quarry. They would walk on the opposite side of the horse until they were close enough to place a good shot on whatever they were hunting. A stalking horse not only concealed them but also, if their target was an armed man and they were discovered, would take the first…
Walter E. Williams
January 2nd, 2015 4:25 PM

CBS Frets Conservatives Will Pose Challenge to Jeb Bush in '16 Primary

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Jan Crawford reported on former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s resignation from a number of corporate and nonprofit boards ahead of a possible campaign for president in 2016 but also found time to lament about the challenge the GOP primary could present for Bush. “Now, the challenge of Bush is going to be running a center right campaign for the…
Curtis Houck
January 2nd, 2015 3:24 PM

WashPost Hails 'Practicing Catholic' O'Malley's Death Row Commutations

Prospective 2016 Democratic presidential contender Gov. Martin O'Malley decided to close out 2014 with an announcement that he would be commuting the death sentences of four Maryland death-row inmates who were in a virtual state of limbo -- eligible for execution but unable to be executed due to the state lacking an appropriate protocol for lethal injections.  Reporting the story in the January…
Ken Shepherd
January 2nd, 2015 3:13 PM

Super Mario: Decades of Media Ardor for Cuomo’s Liberal Advocacy

There is no right-of-center politician who has become a hero to journalists for their passionate rhetoric on behalf of conservatism, but former New York Governor Mario Cuomo was a hero to reporters precisely because of his ideology and the capability with which he espoused it.
Rich Noyes
January 2nd, 2015 1:25 PM

New Regulations May Drive California Egg Prices Up 40%

Grocery shoppers in California may soon be in for a shock. Egg prices could rise by 40 percent in California because of a new law that went into effect on January 1, 2015. The law, championed by animal rights advocates, requires farmers selling eggs in California to house their hens in larger structures. This stipulation also applies to eggs brought into the state from other parts of the country…
Joseph Rossell
January 2nd, 2015 1:20 PM

WashPost Toasts Bill Moyers, 'Living Totem' of 'Alleged Leftward Bias'

The Washington Post celebrated the latest retirement announcement of longtime PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers (we'll believe it when he's gone for a year). The headline is "A crusader's quiet farewell." That's polite code for "declining in relevance." Post media reporter Paul Farhi noted that PBS and Moyers are tightly wound in the brand: "Except for stints in commercial broadcasting (CBS News from…
Tim Graham
January 2nd, 2015 12:55 PM

Networks Remember Cuomo as a 'Spellbinding' 'Liberal Lion'

All three networks on Friday offered glowing tributes to the "spellbinding," "liberal lion," Mario Cuomo, the Democratic politician who passed away on Thursday. Using phrases like "liberal beacon" and "political giant," Today, Good Morning America and CBS This Morning showcased just how much journalists have championed Cuomo's left-wing career. 
Scott Whitlock
January 2nd, 2015 12:33 PM

One-Sided NPR Celebrates India's 'Haven In a Land of Unsafe Abortions'

All of the hallmarks of National Public Radio – the cosmopolitanism and the sexual progressivism – come together in the subject of abortions worldwide. On New Year’s Eve, NPR.org posted a photographer’s record celebrating an abortion clinic in a primitive part of eastern India, titled “A Haven In A Land Of Unsafe Abortions.” As they lament the stigma around abortion, those who favor a stigma…
Tim Graham
January 2nd, 2015 8:56 AM

Mario Cuomo in 1984: High on Passion, Low on Accuracy

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died on Thursday, is predictably being lionized today by USA Today's Aamer Madhani "as (a) giant in political rhetoric," and by others elsewhere in similarly glowing terms. Madhani goes on to characterize the three-term Empire State chief executive's 1984 Democratic Convention speech in San Francisco as "what is widely considered one of the finest pieces…
Tom Blumer
January 2nd, 2015 7:29 AM

Hugh Hewitt Brings Dazed BuzzFeed Editor Around on 'Dead Cops' Story

Conservative radio host and widely-read author Hugh Hewitt ended 2014 with a bang. BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith finished it with a whimper, thanks to Hewitt. When the two spoke yesterday, it brightened New Year's Eve for many a listener. Smith appeared on Hewitt's program to discuss BuzzFeed's coverage and what to expect in the coming year when the subject of anti-police protests arose (…
Jack Coleman
January 1st, 2015 4:28 PM

NY Times Smears Today's GOP By Yoking Them to Racist David Duke

On the heels of news that Republican majority whip Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana may have addressed a white nationalist group founded by David Duke, New York Times reporter Jeremy Alford did his best to smear today's Republican Party by linking it to the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan: "Much of David Duke’s ’91 Campaign Is Now in Louisiana Mainstream." Guilt by association is popular…
Clay Waters
January 1st, 2015 3:21 PM