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On the PBS NewsHour weekly Political Wrap on Friday night, liberal analyst Mark Shields cheered President Obama's speech in (Texas, oops) Kansas on soak-the-rich populism: "At long last. I think the president has danced around a number of theories of governance, that we could all reason together, the Rodney King approach, which came a cropper." He's not a natural populist, Shields said, but "I…

The Obama-loving media have been paying a lot of attention of late to flipflops made by Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney throughout their respective political careers. Yet as Politico loosely addressed earlier this month, the current White House resident signed a bill in November that reversed his campaign pledge to prevent the slaughter of horses (picture…

Parade magazine, the Sunday newspaper supplement, bows and scrapes before liberal actor Matt Damon in the December 11 edition, oozing on the cover that Damon is "The Sexiest Family Man Alive."  Damon is promoting the forthcoming family movie We Bought a Zoo. Parade's Brooke Hauser wrote "Damon has been outspoken on issues like tax inequality and education -- leading activist filmmaker Michael…

Friday's NBC Nightly News ran a report touting the prospect that President Obama could portray the current Congress as a "Do-Nothing Congress," based primarily on the number of bills passed rather than delving into the issues addressed, even making a comparison with the 1995 Republican Congress as if it could be similarly described as unproductive. Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell's piece put…

As NewsBusters reported, the media gushed and fawned over President Obama's speech last Tuesday likening himself to Teddy Roosevelt. On Friday's Inside Washington, Charles Krauthammer called this "a classic example of how little it takes to stir the erogenous zones of liberals" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart are once again locked in a battle of wits. Having been told by O'Reilly that he was "going to hell" for remarks he made about the war on Christmas, Stewart said Thursday, "I make my living watching Fox News eight hours a day. I'm already in hell! Boom! Boom! Your move, O'Reilly." This led The Factor host to marvelously respond Friday…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the presidential race. How do you feel about Newt Gingrich's surge? Does the possibility of a Gingrich nomination make you happy or sad? If the latter, who's your pony in this race and why?

I know we've got Army-Navy today, but what does one do on a Saturday without a full complement of college football games? Anything else of sports interest this weekend apart from tomorrow's football matchups?

No wonder President Obama adopted some of the language of the Occupy movement in his class-warfare speech this week.  It's led by the likes of Alfredo Carrasquillo, a fellow "community organizer" with whom the president perhaps identifies.  Carrasquillo specializes in breaking into foreclosed homes to dole them out to people—beginning with himself—to live in. Chris Hayes gave Carrasquillo a…

Once upon a time, women were considered the “fairer sex,” the “better half.” Stewardesses were talented and beautiful. Wives were softer, more gentle. Men fought for their honor. Feminism crushed all of that. It is a testimony to their movement that in today’s post-feminist entertainment media, part of what makes television so corrosive and sour is just how piggish the women have become. The…

Christians believe that God loved the world and sent his only son to found a church. Atheists think man invented religion to bring some meaning (or rationales for power) to their lives. Guess which Lawrence O'Donnell sounded like on Friday's Morning Joe. O’Donnell claimed “Republican voters hate Mitt Romney, can’t stand Mitt Romney,” and since he’s at 25 percent in the polls, 75 percent of…

The blog Inside Cable News noticed new job notices at MSNBC.com. "One was more of a support position for Up with Chris Hayes and another that seemed more like a general editorial position" for the NBC/MSNBC Decision 2012 team. Both had a line that stuck out: "Must have thorough knowledge of political and progressive news." "While I can see the applicability of that for Up, I’m having a harder…

On Wednesday, as Terry Baynes at Reuters reported, "A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of five leaders of an Islamic charity on charges of funneling money and supplies to Hamas, designated a "terrorist" group following a 1995 executive order by President Bill Clinton. ..." The organization involved was the Holy Land Foundation based in Texas. The five involved received…

Some of the worst bias from the New York Times over the past month: Surging GOPers “Are to Varying Degrees Yahoos” “The candidates who surged before [Gingrich] are to varying degrees yahoos. They proved it anew last week. Michele Bachmann seemed to be under the impression that we had an embassy in Iran, and Rick Perry was definitely under the delusion that the voting age in this country is…