Is Liberalism Leading to Comic Books' Downfall

Seen at Instapundit comes word of the site Bleeding Cool whose Darin Wagner asks this obvious question (no offense to Darin). "You pick up a superhero comic book featuring a childhood favorite of yours, hoping to reignite some of that magic you felt way back when and you see that the opening sequence in the comic deals with an oil rig disaster," he wrote. "You immediately and disappointingly…
D. S. Hube
January 21st, 2012 6:35 AM

Mark Levin's Liberty Vs. Thomas Friedman's Tyranny

The media is going to work overtime to ignore Mark Levin’s brand-new book “Ameritopia.” He asks: Do we choose between America as it was founded on liberty or a radically socialist Ameritopia? Levin says we’ve already chosen (b). No one in the liberal media wants that announced so explicitly from their mountain tops. The arrogance of socialists is apparent on the back cover of Levin’s book. It…
Tim Graham
January 20th, 2012 11:25 PM

Reuters: Gingrich 'Canceled Appearance,' Showing He May Not Be 'Discip

In the final three paragraphs of a report that was primarily about Mitt Romney trying to lower expectations concerning the results of tomorrow's South Carolina Primary voting, Steve Holland of Reuters told readers that Newt Gingrich canceled an appearance. Holland then used that appearance as an opportunity to build on a meme the press has been working on for some time about the former…
Tom Blumer
January 20th, 2012 10:53 PM

CNN Airs Another Soft Report on Hacker Group 'Anonymous

The internet group "Anonymous" claimed to have shut down the websites of the Justice Department and FBI, but that didn't stop CNN's Amber Lyon from giving them the soft treatment. Her Friday report on the group of hackers and thieves contained no voices of opposition but allowed the group to defend its escapades. Lyon remained neutral on the group's tactics, from reporting their "favorite…
Matt Hadro
January 20th, 2012 6:26 PM

For Romney, Will Free Markets or Crony Capitalism Be on Trial

When his tenure at the investment firm Bain Capital became an issue in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney responded by saying he "was disappointed ... to see one of my opponents attacking free enterprise, just like the president was." It's understandable why Romney would want to see criticism of his resume as an attack on free enterprise. Seventy percent of…
Scott Rasmussen
January 20th, 2012 6:25 PM

Not by Sight, But by Faith

A group of conservative evangelical leaders met in Texas last weekend and endorsed a Roman Catholic for president. Given the history of evangelical antipathy toward the theological underpinnings of the Roman Catholic Church, that in itself signals a remarkable evolution (pardon the word), along with a considerable amount of political pragmatism. The blessing of what was once called the "…
Cal Thomas
January 20th, 2012 5:34 PM

MSNBC's Mitchell, Melvin Denounce Gingrich's Rhetoric As Racist 'Dog W

Once again, an MSNBC reporter has falsely accused Newt Gingrich of using racial overtones in his critique of President Obama’s economic policies. On the Friday edition of her eponymous program Andrea Mitchell Reports, the veteran broadcast journalist maintained that Gingrich deploys language with coded racial overtones that she and fellow MSNBCers can detect is a racially-tinged "dog whistle…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 20th, 2012 5:23 PM

NYT Lets Liberals Boost Obama Admin. Attack on Religious Groups

John H. Cushman, Jr. of the New York Times almost completely slanted to the left in his Friday article about the Obama administration's decision to force religious organizations to include free contraception in their employee insurance plans. Cushman quoted from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, liberal Senator Barbara Boxer and the president of notorious pro-abortion "Catholics for Choice," but…
Matthew Balan
January 20th, 2012 5:02 PM

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift Said 'Open Marriage' Story Is 'Fair Game,' Gu

On January 21, 1998, the very day the Monica Lewinsky affair broke, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift disdained the story as old news and insisted that presidents like JFK and LBJ demonstrated that "libido and leadership is often linked." But on Wednesday's Thom Hartmann show, Clift found nothing distasteful in ABC's Marianne Gingrich interview to investigate Newt Gingrich's affinity for "open…
Tim Graham
January 20th, 2012 4:47 PM

NBC Touts 'Campaign Craziness' in 'Tumultuous' GOP Race

In an attempt to make the Republican presidential race appear chaotic, on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry turned to White House correspondent Chuck Todd and declared: "Even the word 'tumultuous' seems inadequate to describe what has happened to the GOP race in the last 24 hours." The on-screen headline screamed: "Campaign Craziness." Todd saw only problems for the Republican candidates…
Kyle Drennen
January 20th, 2012 4:28 PM

South Carolina: Not Quite as Backward as It Used to Be, According to t

New York Times Atlanta bureau chief Kim Severson showed a little anti-Southern, anti-conservative condescension on the campaign trail in her Friday filing “From South Carolina, a Wary Welcome.” (Previously Jim Rutenberg had declared the state "famous for surfacing the dark undercurrents of American politics.")
Clay Waters
January 20th, 2012 4:27 PM

MRC 'Don't Believe the Liberal Media!' Posters Make Politico.com Front

Last week our "Don't Believe the Liberal Media!" poster was seen by millions of viewers of CBS's Evening News. Today, our posters plugging stopthebias.org were featured in a Politico.com photo montage. We hope the CBS cameraman and Politico's photo editor aren't hitting the unemployment line because of this, but we're glad the message is getting out to consumers of liberally-biased outlets.…
NB Staff
January 20th, 2012 4:04 PM

Obama vs. Christie and the Future

Whose job would you want to have? Would it be President Barack Obama's or Governor Chris Christie's in the great state of New Jersey? Would it be President Obama's, whose budget woes are getting graver, or would it be Governor Christie's, whose budget is at least looking to be survivable? Now Obama is facing the choice in his budgetary decisions. Does he raise taxes only on families making $1…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
January 20th, 2012 3:47 PM

America Wants Conservatives to Stand Up to Liberal Bullying

I wish Republican politicians would have faith in the largely conservative electorate and not behave as though they'll make themselves unelectable unless they pander to Generic Moderate. Who is that guy, anyway? Have you ever met him? Recently, we've seen a few examples of the liberal narrative's rearing its oppressive head and starkly different reactions to it. The first was Mitt Romney's…
David Limbaugh
January 20th, 2012 3:37 PM