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Let's get ready to rumble:8:47 PM ET (3) Villanova vs. (1) North Carolina6:07 PM ET (2) Michigan State vs. (1) Connecticut Vegas line: UCONN - 4 1/2, UNC - 7 1/2You folks know me: I go for the dogs unless I have a pony in the race. What say you?

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Give President Obama a Grade.The good folks over at MSNBC.com are asking what readers think of Obama's performance. Given the leaning of their viewers, you can imagine how this will be skewed.With that in mind, let's give these folks a hand (h/t NB reader Stephany).

Reuters published a story today, April 4, detailing some nonsense from a Taliban terrorist who has claimed "responsibility" for Friday's shooting rampage in Binghamtom, New York. The question that comes to mind is why? Why did Reuters imagine this idiotic claim, this obvious lie, was worth reporting to the world? Does Reuters not have the good sense God gave a door knob? Why would Reuters pass…

Don't you love it when the Old Media dredges up some partisan hack Democrat supporter and presents them as an "expect" that is never identified as a partisan political hack? Well, you may not love it, but it sure seems to happen an awful lot. And here we see another example of that lame bias by our old friend Anne Sutton, an AP writer that is renown for her hit pieces on Governor Palin and her…

Reacting with indignation to David Frum's assessment that President Barack Obama was a “failure” at the G-20 summit because European leaders “rebuffed” his quest to get them to follow his lead in enacting massive deficit spending, an aghast ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson sputtered that the change in “tone” from former President Bush was more important than substance: The last President we had…

Is it some sort of amazing, newsworthy revelation that teen romance is sometimes a rocky road? Is it news that family can be troublesome when it results in out-of-wedlock birth? The Associated Press seems to think it is, at least if one of those teens is Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol. Do you care that punk Levi Johnston is bawling to the press that Governor Palin is supposedly a…

Of the three network evening newscasts, ABC's World News, substitute hosted by Diane Sawyer, uniquely seemed to lament the lack of political interest in enacting new gun laws to combat what correspondent Dan Harris earlier called "a signature American disaster, a shooting rampage," referring to the shooting spree in Binghamton, New York.Sawyer introduced a discussion with correspondent Pierre…

For the second time in a week, CNBC's Rick Santelli faced down one of the standard-bearers of liberalism.First, he explained to Huffington Post editor and founder Arianna Huffington on the March 31 "Squawk Box" that markets are more efficient in correcting economic hardship, in the banking and housing sectors. On CNBC's April 3 "The Call," Santelli took on University of California at Berkeley…

In an interview on CNN.com on Friday titled “Zakaria: Obama disappoints as world leader,” author and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria threw cold water on the media’s laudatory coverage of President Obama’s trip to Europe: “Although he brought a lot of star power -- the talk of the week -- at least in certain circles in Washington, New York and London -- has been that President Obama is failing in his…

CNBC reporter debates former Clinton Labor Secretary on merits of government spending to 'reflate' collapsed credit market.

Will There Be a Corresponding Media Call to Pitchforks?Please don't halt respiratory activity in the waiting. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are two public-private partnerships known as Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs).  Wherein the executive staff, populated with woefully unqualified, egregiously overpaid political crony appointees, get to play housing market roulette with the House's (read: OUR…

For your Friday evening entertainment pleasure, last week Sen James Inhofe's (R-Ok.) former communications director Marc Morano debated Climate Progress's Joe Romm on matters relating to the global warming myth.UPDATE at end of post: Romm hysterically responds to NewsBusters. Presented courtesy of Roll Call TV (debate begins at minute 3:45, part two below the fold):