Krauthammer: 'Nuclear Energy Is Dead' After Japanese Crisis

It was likely not a surprise to "Inside Washington" viewers that most of the usual suspects on the panel Friday saw the crisis in Japan as not being good for the future of nuclear powered electrical plants in this country. What certainly must have raised a couple of eyebrows though was the strongest opposition to any further construction of such facilities coming from lone conservative…
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 10:11 PM

BBC's Katty Kay: Obama Doesn't Want Media To Report Bahrain Rebellion

Despite our air attacks in Libya this weekend, most Middle East experts view the growing rebellion in Bahrain as being far more important to America. Yet according to the BBC's Katty Kay, who was a guest on the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show," the Obama administration doesn't want the press reporting what's going on there (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 9:10 PM

Palin's Terminal Velocity

"She reminds me of my wife." That was the most frequent comment I received via e-mail on the September night Sarah Palin spoke to a riveted Republican National Convention in 2008, as the vice-presidential nominee spoke of hockey moms, pit bulls, lipstick, the dignity of human life, and the future of our nation. I suspect every man who e-mailed wasn't revealing his secret fantasy -- his wife…
Kathryn Jean Lopez
March 20th, 2011 8:59 PM

Andrew Sullivan: 'I Don't Know Why Anybody Voted for Obama in the Prim

The far-left in America are having a collective conniption fit over President Obama's decision to attack Libya. Included in the wolf pack is the Atlantic magazine's Andrew Sullivan who despite his preposterous claims of being a conservative appeared on "The Chris Matthews Show" this weekend and said, "I don’t know why anybody voted for Obama in the primaries...[now] we have this politicized…
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 8:02 PM

The Japan Syndrome

In the 1979 movie "The China Syndrome," reporter Kimberly Wells (played by Jane Fonda) witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant and then uncovers a plot to keep it a secret in order to protect the power company's billion-dollar investment. The film was a gift to the political left, which at the time opposed the pursuit of nuclear energy to reduce our addiction to foreign oil. In some…
Cal Thomas
March 20th, 2011 8:01 PM

New York Times Quotes of Note: Radical Chic

Radical Chic: Times Relaunches Mag With Hagiography of Terrorist Helper “Such an outpouring of rage at a 40-year-old woman, mother to a toddler, who was convicted in her mid-20s of abetting a terrorist plot that never took place, is a measure of the degree to which Peruvians are still traumatized by the violence that convulsed their country during the years when the Shining Path warred…
Clay Waters
March 20th, 2011 7:14 PM

Howard Kurtz: Media Drumbeating War Again, Not Asking Skeptical Questi

Howard Kurtz on Sunday scolded the media for drumbeating war "again" and not asking any skeptical questions about America's goals in Libya. On CNN's "Reliable Sources," Kurtz repeated his previously made assertion that this is what happened before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 4:28 PM

Bill Maher Ignorance Update: Obama Says U.S. To Be Major Buyer Of Braz

Bill Maher in the middle of last year's crisis in the Gulf of Mexico wrongly stated on national television that Brazil had gotten off of oil 30 years ago. With great irony, President Obama announced Saturday that he wants America to become a major buyer of - wait for it! - Brazilian oil drilled offshore:
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 12:28 PM

As U.S. Strikes Libya Michael Moore Says Obama Should Return Nobel Pea

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner has: raised troop levels in Afghanistan; increased the number of drone attacks in Pakistan; kept the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay fully intact, and; now bombed Libya. Noticing the absurd irony was schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore who took to Twitter Saturday with a series of tweets aimed at the Obama administration:
Noel Sheppard
March 20th, 2011 10:55 AM

Another Side of NBC’s David Gregory: He Screams ‘Unleash the Fury

David Gregory is best-known as the calm, if liberal, host of NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday mornings. But he’s also a fan of the Washington Capitals hockey team and as a local celebrity, along with Pat Sajak, he volunteered to help cheer on the team with its “Unleash the Fury!” in-game presentation centered around actor Tom Green reprising the line from the same scene he played in the movie…
Brent Baker
March 20th, 2011 9:22 AM

In the 'Employer Spotlight,' NPR Calls Itself 'Privately Supported

National Public Radio is in the "Featured Employers Spotlight" in Sunday's Washington Post. That could be because NPR has posted ads for 24 job openings at NPR, including the vacated spot of Ellen Weiss, the senior vice president for news that canned Juan Williams over the phone. But even in the want ads, NPR can't be honest about its support from taxpayers: NPR is an internationally…
Tim Graham
March 20th, 2011 8:46 AM

New York Magazine Insists Obama's ESPN Appearance Helped Japan in 'Tan

At NRO Media Blog, Greg Pollowitz underlined how Dan Amira at New York magazine worked overtime to make the case that President Obama's self-promotional appearance touting his NCAA basketball tournament picks actually aided Japan in "tangible ways" that never would have happened if he hadn't gone to the sports-loving segment of the American public with a charity pitch: As Japan crept closer…
Tim Graham
March 20th, 2011 7:39 AM

New York Times Downplays Andrew Cuomo's Female Housemate as No Serious

Naturally, The New York Times has no interest in finding a scandal in the liberal Governor of New York "shacking up" or "living in sin," even though some Catholic experts recommended Andrew Cuomo should be denied communion for living with Food Network "Semi-Homemade" cook Sandra Lee. (There was no room for jokes that she's only a semi-homemaker without a wedding ring.) Cuomo is divorced and…
Tim Graham
March 19th, 2011 11:54 PM

Yes, Ed Schultz, You Told Democrats Not to Vote in

Allow me to refresh his memory. Ed Schultz and a caller to his radio show Thursday got into a heated argument after she criticized him for suggesting last year that Democrats stay away from the polls on election day to express their anger with congressional Democrats for not extending unemployment benefits. Schultz not only denied what the caller said, he was unequivocal and emphatic about…
Jack Coleman
March 19th, 2011 11:02 PM