Post's Version of 'Rent' Complains about Cost

Tenants who don't want to pay are focus of story on government control of market.
Dan Gainor

Chris Matthews Endorses Hillary For...Majority Leader

Geoffrey Dickens

International French News Channel to Launch

Unsatisfied with American domination of the international news market, a French company is getting ready to launch a cable/satellite news channel.The staff of France 24 insists they'll be different than CNNi, BBC, and others, but in one respect they're perfectly similar. Just like their American counterparts, they pretend they're objective. They also appear to have trouble perceiving reality.…
Matthew Sheffield

Journalists Concede Pelosi Getting a 'Honeymoon,' Promise Tough Scruti

On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz recognized the media's soft treatment of Speaker-to-be-Nancy Pelosi. CBS's Gloria Borger, ABC's Martha Raddatz and CNN's Candy Crowley also acknowledged the “honeymoon” for Pelosi -- and all three insisted coverage of her will turn tough. After some clips of the softball questions posed to Pelosi last week by network anchors…
Brent Baker

WashPost’s Sally Quinn: Bush ‘Relieved’ About Losing Congress

"Washington Post" reporter Sally Quinn appeared on Monday’s "American Morning," ready to psychoanalyze President Bush in the wake of last week’s midterm defeat. Quinn discussed the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the hiring of Robert Gates as a replacement, and how President Bush is secretly "relieved" over the drubbing the GOP received. Now, either Ms. Quinn has become a…
Scott Whitlock

NYT's James Risen Cheers Rumsfeld's Exit as 'Best Thing to Happen' In

Tim Graham

ABC's Sawyer to Obama: Is the U.S. 'More Racist or More Sexist

Megan McCormack

New UN Children’s Book Promotes Global Warming Fears to Kids

I guess we should have seen this one coming: the United Nations has published a children's book raising international fears about global warming. As announced this morning by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works (emphasis mine throughout):Nairobi, Kenya – A new United Nations children’s book promoting fears of catastrophic manmade global warming is being promoted at the UN…
Noel Sheppard

Courageous Police Recruits, Chatting With PM's Spokesman, Combat Hospi

Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

Open for comment.
NB Staff

Would You Like Sugar with That

Greg Sheffield

Time Says Reagan Era Now Over? That's What They Said 13 Years Ago

Rich Noyes

‘Olbermann Watch’s’ Video Salute to the Next Edward R. Murrow

With all the gushing going on by the liberal media over Keith Olbermann, it’s only fitting that one of his foremost critics on the Internet, our friend at Olbermann Watch, would be reaching across the aisle after last Tuesday’s “historic” elections. What would be more appropriate given this supposedly new era of bipartisanship than a demonstration of solidarity between such foes?With that in mind…
Noel Sheppard

TV Commercial - White Kids Can't Win

How long do you think it will be that we must stay under the thumb of the kind of PCism that posits that all white people are evil, wrong, losers, stupid or otherwise weak and bad? Apparently Cisco Systems hasn't seen the end of it and that is why, in their TV commercial for their new TelePresence video conferencing system, the white kid loses. The commercial starts off with a white boy in an…
Warner Todd Huston