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Toledo Blade Columnist: 'Special Squads of Police' Should Disarm Ameri
Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to confiscate their Constitutionally legal firearms is a step I haven't seen in a purportedly…
'Dilbert' Storyline Brings to Mind Couric's Ghostwritten Vlog
Does "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams keep tabs on Katie Couric?The mini-scandal got buried by the Imus flap, but a few weeks ago CBS fired a Couric producer for plagiarizing from a Wall Street Journal column. The offending item was the vlog script she wrote for Couric's April 4 "Notebook," wherein Couric waxed nostalgic for childhood and worried that today's kids aren't as enamored with the…
Will Hillary Clinton’s Post at Lieberman-Blackfacing Blog Backfire
Assume for a moment that you were the frontrunner for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2008, and that one of your competitors had recently created a bit of a brouhaha for having hired a couple of liberal bloggers with "tainted" records. Would you want to post an article at a website that got itself in some trouble of its own last year when it featured an offensive, Photoshopped picture of…
Reuters Played Blame-the-Victim and Minimized Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Childh
Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali immigrated to the US from Holland in 2006 after her controversial views of Islam (she called it “backwards”) resulted in serious death threats and the eventual murder of a friend. An April 24 Reuters article by Alexandra Hudson (picked up by the Washington Post website) stressed the theme that the Muslim women of Holland were relieved that she left for America. It…
British Documentary ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ to Air on S
While scientists in Great Britain try to get the documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle” edited to fit their agenda as reported by NewsBusters, Swedish television will air the unedited program Friday.As NewsBusters reported about this documentary when it was first broadcast in England last month ("Swindle" video available here, emphasis added):With American media falling all over…
Yahoo's Online Presidential Debate Skews Leftward
Web use has become such a widespread phenomenon that for next year's presidential election, Yahoo is set to host the first-ever online presidential debate.Unfortunately, all of the web media sources it's chosen to partner up with are liberal leaning. David All explains:When mega-giant Yahoo! decides to play in the political sandbox, I’m going to pay attention. Yahoo! is currently ranked number…
When It Comes to Iraq Leadup, Media Left Flip-flops on Press Power
For a crowd that was very insistent
that America "move on" from the issues surrounding the
impeachment of Bill Clinton, you'd think the far left would give it a
rest when it comes to the subject of the lead-up to the Iraq war. It
doesn't take much digging to conclude that whatever false
intelligence the Bushies believed, the Clintonites did as well--as
did the rest of the western world.
But the…
Pro-environment Candidates Fly to Presidential Debate on Separate Plan
Assume for a second that you were a pro-environment presidential candidate that believed in anthropogenic global warming. Would you be trying to demonstrate that energy conservation and reducing carbon emissions were not just so many words in a stump speech, but something you truly believed in?Would you also expect that an impartial press might be analyzing your activities to make sure they…