4th Quarter 2006 Home-Price Report: The Sky Is Not Falling

The Office For Housing Enterprise Oversight released its Fourth Quarter 2006 House Price Index (HPI) report (PDF) on March 1. Given the recent gloomy reporting about the industry, you may not know that housing prices nationwide actually went up a bit more in the fourth quarter (1.12%) than they did in the third (1.07%). Though there are certainly problematic metro areas, it would appear that the…
Tom Blumer
 

British Scientist Warns of 'Moral Danger Behind Global Warming Hysteri

The media’s contention of a scientific consensus surrounding the belief that man is responsible for global warming is whittling away faster than the New England Patriots’ lead against the Indianapolis Colts in the 2007 AFC Championship Game.The most recent act of skepticism – or should I say heresy given the zealotry exhibited by the global warming alarmists – came in the form of an op-ed written…
Noel Sheppard
 

The Reporting of Employment News Is Inadequate, or Worse; Here’s Why

Tom Blumer
 

Did NBC Misrepresent Thompson as Being Opposed to Overturning Roe

[see UPDATES at end of post] Fred Thompson, who is exploring the possibilty of a presidential candidacy, went on Fox News Sunday yesterday, strongly criticized Roe v. Wade and said the answer to it was "good judges." But on this morning's "Today," Andrea Mitchell flatly stated that Thompson doesn't want to overturn Roe. So where does Thompson stand on Roe, and how can we explain Today's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

AP Mourns: There Goes The Gay Neighborhood

Tim Graham
 

AP Protests U.S. Military Erasing AP Photographer's Pictures

Warner Todd Huston
 

WashPost Buries Lede on DC Gun Ban Story

In the March 11 Washington Post, staff writers Elissa Silverman and Allison Klein took a look at the men and women behind a legal challenge to the Washington, D.C., handgun ban. But in doing so, it seems they buried the lede.Information on one plaintiff came near the end of Silverman and Klein's 25-paragraph story:Dick Heller, 65, said he became involved in the firearms debate in 1997 after he…
Ken Shepherd
 

Environmental Group Throws Anti-Bush Vanity Fair Editor Congratulatory

Lynn Davidson
 

NBC Takes a Stab at 'Newpeats

The new media revolution brought about by the Internet Age leaves a constant vacuum to be filled for the traditional entertainment cycle on broadcast TV. You'll notice a lot of broadcast Web sites doing what they can to fill that void with extra footage, behind-the-scenes stuff, bloopers, "webisodes," and the like.But let's face it, when the new episodes are exhausted on the networks, we're not…
Ken Shepherd
 

Robert Kagan in WaPo: What Is Journalists' Plan B if the 'Surge' Works

Tom Blumer
 

Foreign Journalists and

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," Sigmund Freud is purported to have once said, cautioning that not everything has a deeper, hidden meaning to it. Well, sometimes a blockbuster blood-soaked action flick is just that, a blood-soaked, special effects-laden action flick.Just try telling that to cynical, left-wing European journalists.According to Entertainment Weekly, everyone from gay interest…
Ken Shepherd
 

Why? Yet Another Profile Of Obama From The LA Times

Dave Pierre
 

Scientists Receive Death Threats For Questioning Man’s Role in Globa

Think those advancing anthropogenic global warming theories are serious about their views? Well, an article from Sunday’s Telegraph should scare every person around the world about the zealotry and danger surrounding this issue (emphasis mine throughout):Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bozell: American People Believe Media's A Major Factor In Our Moral De

Tim Graham