
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…
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…
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…
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.
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":
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):
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:
April 14th, 2011 9:36 AM
Open Thread: Budget Deal to Reduce Deficit by Paltry $352 Million This
The House is slated to vote today on the budget deal struck by the president, Rep. John Boehner, and Sen. Harry Reid, but the Associated Press released an analysys Wednesday that shows that the nearly $8 billion in budget cuts the deal brokered will be almost entirely offset by increases in defense spending.
The Congressional Budget Office estimate shows that compared with current spending…
April 14th, 2011 9:09 AM

'Pansexual' High School Student Stars in California History Fight
Sixteen-year-old Irene Rojas-Carroll, an activist who calls herself a "pansexual," is the star of a San Francisco Chronicle story on a controversial California bill to mandate that schools pay tribute to homosexual pioneers in their history lessons. Jill Tucker reported:
A controversial bill moving through the state Legislature would change that, requiring social science instructional…
April 14th, 2011 8:50 AM

Halperin: MSM Would Savage GOP President Calling Opponents' Budget Un
Mark Halperin . . . on a roll!
Yesterday, we noted that the MSNBC analyst was surprisingly respectful to Donald Trump. Today, Halperin offered more refreshingly objective analysis. Commenting on President Obama's budget speech of yesterday, Halperin observed that if a Republican had called a Dem budget un-American, in the same way that PBO pummeled Republican proposals, the MSM "would be…
April 14th, 2011 8:30 AM
Lawrence O'Donnell: Americans Aren't Rugged Individualists - They're S
Last November, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell proudly declared himself a socialist on national television.
On Wednesday, "The Last Word" host took this a huge step further saying the whole idea that Americans are rugged individualists is an illusion because they're all really socialists (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 14th, 2011 12:05 AM

Soros-Funded NPR Going After 'Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire' Again
The $1.8 million grant George Soros gave to NPR was for local reporters in every state capital. But that doesn't mean NPR isn't also beginning to look like a Soros-pleaser on the national scene. Once again on Monday, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik went after Rupert Murdoch, and a voice-mail-hacking scandal at his U.K. tabloid News of the World. In England, the socialist newspaper The…
April 13th, 2011 10:48 PM

NBC’s Engel ‘Worried’ About ‘Ferociously Anti-Israel’ Arab S
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel informed viewers that he is "worried" that a major war between some of the Arab countries and Israel could be in the not too distant future because of the "ferociously anti-Israel" sentiment of the "Arab street" that is likely to gain power in countries like Egypt. He ended up concluding: "But I think, over time, this…
April 13th, 2011 10:15 PM

Krauthammer: Obama's Speech 'Was a Disgrace', 'Shallow' and 'Deeply Di
Charles Krauthammer was less than pleased with Barack Obama's speech Wednesday concerning his plan to bring down the nation's staggering budget deficit.
As the panel segment of Fox's "Special Report" began, Krauthammer said, "I thought it was a disgrace. I thought I’ve rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan, and so intellectually dishonest, outside the last couple…
April 13th, 2011 9:54 PM