Moby Launches Anti-GOP Hunger Strike - Oh, and His CD's On Sale May

Mohandas Gandhi was imprisoned in 1922, 1930, 1933 and 1942. He went on a hunger strike. But because of Gandhi’s stature around the world, British authorities were loath to allow him to die in their custody.
Joseph Lindsey
April 14th, 2011 3:46 PM

MSNBC Praises Obama's 'Soaring' Speech, Calling On 'Wealthiest America

On his 3PM ET hour show on MSNBC on Wednesday, host Martin Bashir enthusiastically reacted to President Obama's budget speech: "'We will invest in the future of America,' that's what President Obama just said in a much-anticipated speech on the budget....He offered a series of broad proposals and said it's time for the wealthiest Americans to pay their way and share in taxes." Moments later…
Kyle Drennen
April 14th, 2011 3:37 PM

Muslim Woman from Georgia Admits Sending Bloody Pig's Foot to Rep. Pet

Last week I noted how the media had been silent on a package sent to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) that contained an anti-Semitic rant and a bloody pig's foot. The Associated Press broke the story on Monday, April 4. In a new development, Politico's Jennifer Epstein reported this afternoon that a Muslim woman from Georgia has claimed responsibility and Capitol police are investigating the claim:
Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2011 3:03 PM

Tax Me Please, Says NY Times Columnist Kristof, While Calling for Defe

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof joined the “tax me, please,” brigade in his Thursday column that is sure to win him new fans the day before tax day: “Raise America’s Taxes.” President Obama in his speech on Wednesday confronted a topic that is harder to address seriously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs higher taxes. That ugly truth looms over today’s budget…
Clay Waters
April 14th, 2011 2:15 PM

CA Gov. Calls for Tax Hikes, State's Democratic Ballot Process Suddenl

L.A.- based Adam Nagourney covered California’s budget impasse for Thursday’s edition, “Standoff in Sacramento as Brown and G.O.P. Lock Horns Over Taxes.” New Gov. Jerry Brown wants to put tax hikes in front of the voters through California’s initiative and referendum process. While the paper’s previous California budget writer Jennifer Steinhauer showed her displeasure with direct democracy…
Clay Waters
April 14th, 2011 2:01 PM

NBC Universal Launches 'Earth Week', GE Conflict of Interest Remains a

Beginning on April 17, NBC-Universal and all of its television news and entertainment shows will launch into seven days of environmentally-themed programming titled "Earth Week." If this Earth Week is anything like those past, it will once again raise the issue, highligted on numerous occasions at this website, of the symbiotic relationship between Earth Week's political implications and the…
Lachlan Markay
April 14th, 2011 1:48 PM

NY Times: Obama Will 'Spare,' 'Reduce the Growth' of Medicare, But GOP

Thursday’s New York Times led with Obama’s partisan budget speech, “Taking On G.O.P., Obama Unveils Debt Relief Plan – Calls for Spending Cuts and Tax Increases but Spares Medicare and Medicaid,” and once again did a double-standard dance around the politically inflammatory issue of changes in Medicare spending when proposed by a Democratic president. While previous attempts at reform of…
Clay Waters
April 14th, 2011 1:21 PM

Time's Jon Meacham Asks 'Is Hell Dead

In 1966, Time magazine's April 8 cover story famously asked "Is God Dead?" Forty-five years later the magazine is still hard at work attempting to discredit traditional Christian faith, with former Newsweek writer Jon Meacham exploring the question  "Is Hell Dead?" Meacham doesn't answer the question definitively but used the raging controversy over Michigan pastor Rob Bell's new book "Love…
Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2011 1:15 PM

Joy Behar Bizarrely Blames Reagan in 1981 for Sleeping Air Traffic Con

Sleeping air traffic controllers in 2011 are the fault of Ronald Reagan firing striking workers in 1981, according to liberal comedienne Joy Behar. The View co-host on Thursday managed to blame the late President while talking about a recent series of napping air traffic controllers. The left-wing comic bizarrely compared, "[Reagan] busted the union, the air controllers' union. And they…
Scott Whitlock
April 14th, 2011 12:53 PM

Another Liberal Lob from NY Times TV Critic Mike Hale, This Time on Gu

New York Times critic Mike Hale’s review of an HBO documentary on the evils of guns, “Gun Fight,” is colored with his liberal perspective. Hale is never hesitant to work in his liberal political opinions into his reviews. He clearly favors left-wing public affairs series like Frontline, and has embraced European-style nationalized health care as clearly superior to the U.S. version (until Obama…
Clay Waters
April 14th, 2011 12:29 PM

CMI’s Gainor, Brown on ‘Daily Show

On April 8, MRC’s Culture and Media Institute started a debate  when it called attention to an e-mail ad from J Crew that featured a mother painting her young son’s toenails pink. The story gained national attention on radio, TV and the web. And now it’s made “The Daily Show.” Video Below the fold.
Matt Philbin
April 14th, 2011 12:16 PM

NYT Praises Obama's Speech: 'The Man America Elected President Has Re

The New York Times was very excited about President Obama's deficit reduction speech. The Gray Lady's editorial Thursday began, "The man America elected president has re-emerged":
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2011 11:18 AM

Time's Klein Hails Obama As 'Mr. Prudent' on Federal Budget, Blasts R

President Obama is "Mr. Prudent," a grown-up heralding "deficit sanity" in a Washington gone mad with "delusional" Republican plans for draconian budget cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy. That's the predictable leftist talking point-laden take that Time magazine's Joe Klein had after listening to President Obama's hectoring lecture yesterday at George Washington University (emphasis mine):
Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2011 10:42 AM

Berkeley Scientist: Marijuana Causes Global Warming

Nobel Laureate Al Gore's favorite money making myth suddenly has some competition for the wackiest reason the planet has warmed in recent years. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis reported Tuesday, a University of California, Berkeley, scientist believes that the indoor growing of marijuana is responsible - at least partially, of course:
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2011 9:36 AM