Joy-Ann Reid: Southern Abortion Laws Taking Us Back to 'Before Roe v

Commenting on a recent women’s health measure passed by the Louisiana state house, Joy-Ann Reid and MSNBC.com’s Irin Carmon portrayed the bill as an aggressive attack on women’s rights. The law includes such innocuous provisions as a 24-hour waiting period for abortions and a requirement that doctors must have admitting privileges within 30 miles of the clinic where the procedure is performed.…
Connor Williams
May 23rd, 2014 11:45 AM

NBC Promotes Snowden Interview: Is He A 'Traitor' or 'Patriot

After news broke on Thursday that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams landed an exclusive interview with NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the network began running promos wondering whether Snowden was a "traitor" or a "patriot." First a clip played of Williams observing: "A lot of people would say you have badly damaged your country." A second clip of the exchange feature Williams asking Snowden…
Kyle Drennen
May 23rd, 2014 10:43 AM

Democratic-Majority Senate 'Pretty Silent' on Veteran Concerns

On the May 22 edition of The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd, the MSNBC anchor invited Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, to discuss his organization’s reaction to the Obama’s administrations handling of the VA scandal. While Todd seemed content to place the blame solely on the faceless VA bureaucracy, Rieckhoff hit back by suggesting the problem…
Laura Flint
May 23rd, 2014 9:15 AM

Juan Williams: Some Say President Obama Has 'Gone Overboard' to Suppor

When it comes to TV punditry, there's your garden variety liberal talking points, and then there's your absurdly over-the-top liberal spin. Fox News contributor Juan Williams opted to offer the latter in an appearance today when he hinted that, if anything, President Obama cares a little too much about America's military veterans. Appearing on the 11 a.m. Eastern hour on Fox News's Happening…
Jackie Seal
May 23rd, 2014 9:03 AM

Media Outlets Targeting Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Again for Easter

Via The Right Scoop, we learned that TMZ and several other media outlets are making a big deal again about Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson repeating his quotation of First Corinthians in an Easter sermon. "The news media didn't even know it was a verse," he says. "They thought I was just mouthing off." (Video below)
Tim Graham
May 23rd, 2014 8:16 AM

Charles Pierce: The Tea Party, Minus Its 'Raving Loon' Nominees, Is No

Two prominent lefty bloggers wrote in separate Wednesday posts that even though the Tea Party label might have taken a hit in Tuesday's Republican primaries, the Tea Party ideology is riding high within the GOP.   Charles Pierce of Esquire opined that "[t]he basic lesson of last night's primary elections...is not to nominate morons" and that "this time around, being a crackpot seems to have…
Tom Johnson
May 22nd, 2014 8:58 PM

Column: The VA, the NHS, and Choice

Cal Thomas
May 22nd, 2014 6:28 PM

Column: NYTimes Guilty of Fuzzy Math in Service of Anti-Capital Punish

The New York Times has been touting a study purporting to show that 4 percent of death row inmates have been "falsely convicted." "Falsely convicted" is not "innocent." But after being processed through the lawyer-to-journalist telephone game, "insignificant procedural errors" quickly becomes "27 guys didn't do it!" What the study actually shows is that those sentenced to death are more…
Ann Coulter
May 22nd, 2014 6:10 PM

Liberal Radio Keeps Shrinking as Ed Schultz Departs Airwaves for Much

Less than a week after Air America Radio refugee Randi Rhodes signed off with her last broadcast, libtalker Ed Schultz announced that he too is ending his radio show. Schultz began his decade-old radio program today by saying he will air his last three-hour weekday broadcast on Friday and start an hour-long weekday show accessible from the Internet on May 27, the day after Memorial Day. (…
Jack Coleman
May 22nd, 2014 5:41 PM

Hypocrisy: Maddow Calls VA Scandal Merely 'Problem in Progress'; Bush

Call it partisan hypocrisy in progress. Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow furiously spun the VA hospital waiting-list scandal as merely a “problem in progress.” That was radically different from her reaction to the 2007 Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal, which involved shoddy, run-down accommodations for injured servicemen (MP3 audio here; video below).
Connor Williams
May 22nd, 2014 5:30 PM

‘Climate Forecasts’ Full of ‘Pseudo-Science,’ Respected Scient

As much as they try to stifle debate, global warming alarmists must contend with many inconvenient facts. When Professor Lennart Bengtsson resigned from the Global Warming Policy Foundation on May 7, he caused a stir by accusing alarmists of using “McCarthy” tactics against him. Now, Bengtsson has publicly slammed alarmist climatologists for promoting “pseudo-science.” Unsurprisingly, the…
Sean Long
May 22nd, 2014 5:20 PM

Md. ObamaCare Panel Held Illegal Secret Meetings; WashPost Avoids Conn

The Washington Post's Jenna Johnson reported yet another black mark against Maryland's rollout of ObamaCare. It seems the "board that oversees Maryland's troubled health insurance marketplace repeatedly violated a state law that requires such groups to fully explain their reasons for meeting behind closed doors" according to a ruling issued Tuesday by the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board…
Ken Shepherd
May 22nd, 2014 5:05 PM

National Catholic Reporter: Climate Change is ‘#1 Pro-Life Issue

At some point, left-wing Catholics should just drop the “Catholic” part because, really, why bother? They clearly have more in common with their ideological fellow travelers than their co-religionists. Case in point, the National Catholic Reporter’s assertion that “Climate change!” has become the new rallying cry of the pro-life community.  In a recent editorial, NCR, which calls itself “one…
Katie Yoder
May 22nd, 2014 4:47 PM

Politico: Chelsea Clinton Upset Over 1995 Fourth World Conference on W

You want to know what really ticks me off? It is the fact that some of the goals of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing have not been met.  Oooh! It makes me so angry. I can't tell you how many sleepless nights I've spent just obsessing on that one thought. Okay, I'm just kidding. Like over 99.9% of normal people out there I really don't even think much about a 20 year old…
P.J. Gladnick
May 22nd, 2014 4:32 PM