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NPR Slams Perry on Abortion with Objections of 'Family Planning Advoca
On Tuesday's Morning Edition, NPR's Wade Goodwyn carried water for pro-abortion activists who are targeting Governor Rick Perry and the Texas legislature for cutting the state funding of "women's health clinics." Goodwyn didn't give an ideological label for the activists, referring to them merely as "family planning advocates," and highlighted their objection that some of the cut funds were now…
September 21st, 2011 7:41 PM
Gov. Perry's Right About Social Security
During the recent GOP presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Social Security is a "monstrous lie" and a "Ponzi scheme." More and more people are coming to see that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, but is it a lie, as well? Let's look at it.
Here's what the 1936 government pamphlet on Social Security said: "After the first 3 years — that is to say, beginning in 1940 — you will…
September 21st, 2011 6:22 PM
Lightsquared: Obama's Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle
If you thought the half-billion-dollar, stimulus-funded Solyndra solar company bust was a taxpayer nightmare, just wait. If you thought the botched Fast and Furious border gun-smuggling surveillance operation was a national security nightmare, hold on. Right on the heels of those two blood-boilers comes yet another alleged pay-for-play racket from the most ethical administration ever.
Welcome…
September 21st, 2011 6:17 PM
Lecturer-in-Chief Obama Has Forfeited His Moral Authority
As predictable and repetitive as Obama's economic speeches are, his capacity for audacity shows ever increasing signs of creativity. Do you suppose he has any ability to feel shame for what he's doing to this country and embarrassment for blaming everyone but himself?
His latest deficit plan involves further punishing millionaires and billionaires (which means all those making $200,000 or…
September 21st, 2011 6:10 PM
How Stimulus Monies Are Radiating You
Smart meters are being installed stealthily by water, gas and electric utility companies on houses and buildings across the country. Despite that, the majority of the public still doesn't know about their potential health risks.
From the moment smart meters began to be installed, a rash of serious health complaints in each community has followed — to date, largely going unheeded by officials…
September 21st, 2011 6:08 PM
Chris Matthews Trashes Perry, Says TX Governor Is Accusing Obama of Be
On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews trashed Rick Perry, accusing him of calling Barack Obama "pro-Nazi." Matthews attacked the Republican presidential candidate for claiming that the President's policy towards Israel is "appeasement." The anchor shrieked that Perry had pulled "the rug out from under [Obama] and accuse[d] him of, basically, pro-Nazi behavior."
Matthews added, "…
September 21st, 2011 5:56 PM
MSNBC Tees Up Ron Howard, Jane Lynch to Lend Support to Obama Tax Hike
MSNBC daytime anchor Craig Melvin took minor detours in interviews this afternoon with director Ron Howard and actress Jane Lynch to ask both celebrities to weigh in on President Obama's push for higher taxes on upper income earners.
Both of them are liberals who support Obama and have given to Democrats in the past, so their answers were hardly surprising.
[Video courtesy of MRCTV editor…
September 21st, 2011 5:27 PM
Denver Paper Looking For Pot News Intern
In a sign of where liberal journalism and drug culture are going, the Denver paper Westword is seeking an intern to help the "medical" marijuana dispensary critic. A man with the byline "William Breathes" of the blog "Mile Highs and Lows" is seeking a college student to potentially earn college credit on the Mary Jane beat:
September 21st, 2011 4:53 PM
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September 21st, 2011 3:09 PM
CNN's King Asks If Cheney Wrote Book Because His Days Are 'Numbered
CNN's John King on Tuesday asked former Vice President Dick Cheney if one of the motivating factors behind writing his recent book was out of a fear that his "days could be numbered."
As only Cheney can, he dryly replied, "I was very much aware that my days are numbered. So are yours" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
September 21st, 2011 3:08 PM
Andrea Mitchell Laments Palestinian Statehood Fight Spoiling Obama's L
Reporting on President Obama speaking at the United Nations for Wednesday's NBC Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell sympathetically declared: "Preparing for today's speech, the President was all smiles for the class photo, but while hoping to run a victory lap as the new Libyan government officially joined the United Nations....Everywhere else, trouble loomed."…
September 21st, 2011 2:48 PM
NYT's Anti-Israel Reporter Blames 'Right-Wing' U.S. for Palestinian Wo
New York Times Middle East reporter Neil MacFarquhar brought his usual anti-Israel slant to his Monday New York Times story on the Palestinians seeking United Nations membership: “Palestinians Turn To U.N., Where Partition Began.”
The Palestinians see the membership application as a last-ditch attempt to preserve the two-state solution in the face of ever-encroaching Israeli settlements, as…
September 21st, 2011 2:00 PM
Wolf Blitzer Bemoans Perry's 'Undermining' Obama UN Address
CNN's Wolf Blitzer fretted over Rick Perry blasting Obama's foreign policy soon before the President was to deliver his address to the United Nations. CNN analyst David Gergen agreed with him, painting Perry as a grenade-thrower.
In a meeting with New York City Jewish leaders GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry slammed what he termed President Obama's policy of "appeasement" in the Middle…
September 21st, 2011 2:00 PM