First GOP Presidential Debate Canceled Due to No Candidates
A tree falling in a forest with no one there does make a sound but it's a little hard to hold a presidential debate for Republicans when none of them have officially declared their intention to run.
March 30th, 2011 4:12 PM

NYT's Michael Shear Pins Medals on Obama, a 'Foreign Policy President
Barack Obama, war president?
The Times’s chief online political reporter Michael Shear gave the president, who ran on an anti-war platform, some militant reelection advice in his Wednesday morning “Caucus” post, “The Case for Obama Campaigning as a Foreign Policy President.”
In the past several weeks, events outside the United States have commanded as much of Mr. Obama’s attention as the…
March 30th, 2011 3:15 PM
Department of Injustice
One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city's two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on the first part (66 percent) and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the second part. Dayton's Civil Service Board reported that 490 candidates passed the November 2010 written test, 57 of whom were black. About 231 of the…
March 30th, 2011 2:56 PM
New York Times Food Writer Mark Bittman: People Will 'Starve to Death
Puritanical New York Times food writer Mark Bittman made a rare appearance on the op-ed page Wednesday to call attention to his latest liberal project: “Why We’re Fasting.”
Bittman, food columnist for the Times Sunday magazine, has also written news stories for the paper from his perch as resident food scold. He made the front page of the Sunday Week in Review in February 2010 with his nanny-…
March 30th, 2011 2:48 PM
Bozell to CNN: Planned Parenthood Lies on Your Network, It's Time to C
Editor's Note: The following is a statement issued earlier today by NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell concerning an exposé of Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ statements on CNN Headline News.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards appeared on CNN's Headline News channel claiming that de-funding Planned Parenthood would prevent if from providing women with mammogram…
March 30th, 2011 2:43 PM

Media Let Left Play War Games with Libya
Few journalists note liberal shift from 'make love, not war' to 'make war.'
March 30th, 2011 2:33 PM

Media Let Left Play War Games with Libya
Few journalists note liberal shift from 'make love, not war' to 'make war.'
March 30th, 2011 2:17 PM
CBS's Wragge Asks Rumsfeld if Obama Being 'Hypocritical' on Libya
On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge interviewed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and questioned President Obama's Libya policy: "...on Monday, the President said it would be a mistake to send U.S. troops to push out Qadhafi, saying quote, 'We went down that road in Iraq'...taking a shot at you and President Bush....Isn't the President being a bit hypocritical?"
Even…
March 30th, 2011 12:46 PM

Name That Party: Illinois Concealed Carry Edition
Fox News Chicago reports this morning:
Tim McCarthy, a former Secret Service agent who took a bullet intended for President Ronald Reagan, will observe the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination on Wednesday by going to Springfield to oppose legislation that would repeal Illinois's ban on concealed carrying of firearms.
McCarthy said he's alarmed that an Illinois House Committee…
March 30th, 2011 12:39 PM

Michael Moore History Lesson: 'America is the Oldest Democracy in the
Something that truly scares people is the amount of misinformation emanating from media members that mistakenly carry a presumed credibility and therefore are wrongly considered disseminators of truth.
One such person is schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore who on Tuesday evening during an appearance on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show" demonstrated how little he knows about history as well as…
March 30th, 2011 12:15 PM

Lauer Shocks Bachmann: Should We Show Compassion to Al Qaeda in Libya
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's Today show, startled Michele Bachmann as he tried to convince her that Obama's strategy of bombing Libya was a good way to show support for the rebels as he pressed the Republican Minnesota Congresswoman "If there are flickers, as you say, of al Qaeda among the rebels, would it not be a sign to them or showing them that the United States has compassion and we…
March 30th, 2011 12:14 PM

NPR's Totenberg Parrots Lawyer's Claim Wal-Mart Arguing It's 'Too Big
Greedy, deep-pocketed Wal-Mart went to the Supreme Court yesterday to argue it's "too big to sue."
That's the sort of rhetoric one might expect from Brad Seligman, one of the attorneys representing Christine Kwapnowski and a handful of other women who are suing Wal-Mart on the claim of gender discrimination.
Appearing with Kwapnowski on Tuesday's CBS "Early Show," Seligman used those words…
March 30th, 2011 12:11 PM

Roseanne Barr: 'I'm Going to Run for President on Behalf of Tax Paying
In case you were worried about the future of the United States, your problems have been solved.
On Tuesday evening, while filling in for Joy Behar on HLN, comedienne Roseanne Barr announced that she's running for president (video follows with transcript and commentary):
March 30th, 2011 11:15 AM

Beastly Brown Blasts 'The Big Greasy Paws Of Dick Cheney
For an MSMer attacking a Republican, there's nothing quite like a wild-animal metaphor.
Witness Newsweek/Daily Beast's Tina Brown, claiming on Morning Joe today that the Obama administration is loath to speak of "regime change" in Libya. Why? Because that phrase "has been tainted by the big, greasy paws of Dick Cheney."
View video after the jump.
March 30th, 2011 10:46 AM