Headline of the Day: 'Cuba shuts factories, cuts energy to save econom

Life in the Workers' Paradise of Cuba is a bit less than perfect these days. So is the absurd headline that begins an Associated Press story by writer Will Weissert:Oh come on.
Tom Blumer

CBS Sees ‘Runaway Success’ in Failing ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Prog

Reporting on the Obama administration’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ car buying program running out of money, CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes offered a mixed message: "‘Cash for Clunkers’ has been such a runaway success....The program is so popular...word spread it would be suspended...because of fears that sales would soon swallow up the $1 billion for rebates the government had set aside."At the top of…
Kyle Drennen

Asheville, N.C. Reporter Was Scheduled to Speak at MoveOn.org Health C

Blogger Jane Q. Republican has been reporting over at the blog for the Asheville, North Carolina, TEA Party about a local newspaper reporter who was slated to appear last Thursday evening at a local MoveOn.org rally pushing for ObamaCare.The reporter, Leslie Boyd of the Gannett-owned Asheville Citizen-Times, ended up cancelling her scheduled appearance at the July 23 rally in front of Rep. Heath…
Ken Shepherd

USA Today: 'Obama Gets Thumbs Up from Focus Group

Barack Obama's many failings are increasingly apparent.  Consequently, even the mainstream media are finding it difficult to keep up the facade.  So difficult, in fact, that USA Today now deems newsworthy the findings of a 12-person focus group conducted by a longtime Democratic operative.USA Today's Susan Page reports the happy news in the piece "Obama gets thumbs up from focus group."  It…
Mike Bates

CNBC Goes into 'Crisis' Mode at Height of ObamaCare Debate

Balanced? Sure. Hyperbolic? Definitely.Invoking the word "crisis" might conjure up images of a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast or some other situation where decisive action much be taken to avert impending doom. But, is it appropriate to suddenly attach it to the key issue put forth by Obama administration, such as health care? On July 30, CNBC dedicated its three-hour…
Jeff Poor

AP, WaPo Tarnish Evangelists by Association with Late Prosperity Gospe

Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, more popularly known as "Rev. Ike", has gone to his reward. The 74-year old prosperity gospel huckster died on July 29 in Los Angeles. But in covering the story, the Associated Press and the Washington Post have carelessly tarnished legitimate preachers of the Christian Gospel by association, by lumping in Eikerenkoetter with more biblically orthodox Protestant…
Ken Shepherd

'World News' Shows How Environmental Regulations Backfire

ABC segment on what happens to U.S. post-consumer electronic waste shows problem of unintended consequences.
Jeff Poor

Dear Abby, Is There Any ‘Lifestyle’ You Won’t Embrace

Here’s a dilemma: You come to find out that Cilla, the sister who’s been generously contributing thousands of dollars to your three kids’ college funds, is actually a porn star. The college cash turns out to be the ill-gotten gains of immoral exploitation. You’re horrified and consider returning the money. Your husband disagrees. What do you do?“G-Rated Sister in San Diego” wrote to the…
Matt Philbin

'Paging Dr. Obama' Makes It Seven Time Mag Covers Since Election for O

Time magazine's August 10 edition with President Barack Obama on the cover (“Paging Dr. Obama”) trying to heal the nation in a photo illustration as a physician, wearing a white smock with a stethoscope around his neck, brings to seven the number of issues the magazine's cover has featured Obama just since November's election -- make that eight for the First Family if you add in June 1's…
Brent Baker

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'They May Not Know What's Good For Them

The poor, benighted little people.  They just don't understand what a wonderful hopey-changey world Pres. Obama is offering them . . . Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them." [H/t reader Restless 1]Mitchell made her condescending comment on today'…
Mark Finkelstein

Newsweek: ‘Traditionalists Better Get Used to’ Polyamory

According to Newsweek, polyamory is here to stay and “the traditionalists had better get used to it.” Polyamory, reporter Jessica Bennett explained in her July 29 article, is the act of “engaging in loving, intimate relationships with more than one person – based upon the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.” While Bennett acknowledged that keeping track of multiple partners’ (and their…
Colleen Raezler

ABC's Bachelorette to Anderson Cooper: 'Let's Talk About Your Sex Life

Greg Pollowitz at NRO Media Blog found CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper sat in as a host of Live With Regis and Kelly on Wednesday, and drew hoots and Internet notice by asking Jillian Harris, the latest star of the ABC reality show The Bachelorette, how many bachelors she er, took for a test drive before buying. She shot back: "Let’s talk about your sex life first, Anderson." (Video here.) Check…
Tim Graham