Parker-Spitzer Ratings Down 35% From Campbell Brown Last Year

It appears Americans aren't very interested in watching a disgraced former Democrat governor discuss politics with a Republican In Name Only columnist. There's no way to read the November ratings numbers for CNN's "Parker-Spitzer" other than this experiment has failed and failed miserably:
Noel Sheppard
December 1st, 2010 10:38 AM

Desperate Libs Ratchet Up Extremist Label

With the advent of the tea party movement and President Obama's recent "shellacking," the left's long-established effort to marginalize mainstream conservative Americans as fringe extremists has reached a new stage of desperation. For at least the past half-century, the dominant media culture has portrayed minority liberalism as mainstream and conservatives as shrill malcontents. From the…
David Limbaugh
December 1st, 2010 10:36 AM

Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly

How about this: The law of gravity is applicable to the behavior of falling objects on the U.S. mainland but not applicable on our Pacific Ocean territories Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands. You say, "Williams, that's lunacy! Laws are applicable everywhere; that's why they call it a law." You're right, but does the same reasoning apply to the law of demand that holds: The higher the price…
Walter E. Williams
December 1st, 2010 10:30 AM

Liberal Media Take Exception to American Exceptionalism

Is America a special nation, chosen by God as “the shining city on the hill?” Do our founding documents, with their explicit invocation of natural rights, set us apart from the rest of the world? Majorities of Americans believe so. Even the liberal Brookings Institution recently published a survey that found 58 percent of citizens believe: “God has granted America a special role in human…
Matt Philbin
December 1st, 2010 10:19 AM

Nicolle Wallace: 'Heaven Forbid' Palin Becomes President

Suggesting that Nicolle Wallace engaged in feline fisticuffs might be called sexist. But when Wallace actually accused Sarah Palin of seeking to "claw" critics, illustrating her assertion with a cat-like hand gesture, well . . . It's no secret that Wallace is no fan of Sarah Palin.  But the former Bush communications director and McCain campaign aide perhaps took things to another level…
Mark Finkelstein
December 1st, 2010 9:29 AM

Open Thread: New Studies Highlight Failures of Stimulus Spending

When measuring the success of economic policies, the baseline metric is a policy's spending-to-growth ratio - how much economic growth is created by spending (or not taxing) one dollar? Keyensian economics is premised on the notion of an economic multiplier. Each dollar the government spends creates more than a dollar of economic growth as the money circulates throughout the economy. New…
NB Staff
December 1st, 2010 9:08 AM

Randi Rhodes Wishes Global Warming Would Cause Flood to Wash Out Limba

Don't let anyone claim that liberal talk radio show hosts don't wish for bad things to happen. On Monday's show, Randi Rhodes was giddy about the prospect of global warming causing the oceans to rise enough to engulf Rush Limbaugh's Florida home: And so, the global warming deniers -- like Rush Limbaugh, whose house I can't wait until the ocean swells and eats his house -- and he will be the…
Tim Graham
December 1st, 2010 8:35 AM

Feds Threatened Citizens United President with Criminal Prosecution Pr

Plaintiff in Citizens United v. FEC SCOTUS case was warned he would face five years in prison for violating campaign finance laws.
Jeff Poor
November 30th, 2010 11:44 PM

Bozell Column: Glorifying 'Great' Liberal Judges

America was founded on the principle of representative democracy: the government would make policy based on the consent of the governed. Liberal elitists have grown increasingly impatient with this unenlightened system, and more and more, they are relying on judicial activists to remake society in their desired image. Far from being tribunes of the people, these judges are honored by the media…
Brent Bozell
November 30th, 2010 10:13 PM

Nets Paint GOP as Obstinate, Highlight Failure to Offer ‘Mea Culpa

Covering President Barack Obama’s White House meeting with congressional leaders, ABC and CBS portrayed incoming House Republicans as the ones obstinate about tax rates, refusing to compromise – meaning agreeing to Obama’s wish to raise income tax rates on many – or match Obama’s conciliatory tone, though NBC’s Chuck Todd pointed out how Obama “seemed unwilling” to even agree with a Democratic…
Brent Baker
November 30th, 2010 10:01 PM

Rush Rips AP's Misnamed Wiseman As 'Ignoramus' Over Perils of Letting

In no uncertain terms, Rush Limbaugh (link will become unavailable in seven days) ripped into an Associated Press report today on the alleged perils of allowing unemployment benefits to expire for what the Labor Department says is nearly 2 million unemployed: I have not had one class in economics since high school in the 1960s -- not one -- and I understand more about this through my own self…
Tom Blumer
November 30th, 2010 6:31 PM

MSNBC Anchor Labels Rep. Steve King a 'Radical Right-Winger' Before In

In the segment before she interviewed him, MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing labeled Rep. Steve King (R) of Iowa "one of the most radical right-wingers in Congress." Nothing was said of the comment in the interview, and her questions proceeded as normal. Following a debate on the extension of unemployment benefits, Jansing remarked that "up next we're going to talk to one of the most radical…
Matt Hadro
November 30th, 2010 6:03 PM

Lamenting Tenth Anniversary of Bush vs. Gore, CNN's Toobin Mangles Med

From his perch at the liberal magazine The New Yorker on Tuesday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin recycled his lament that the Bush-Gore 2000 chad fight should have lasted several more months. (Toobin's 2001 book Too Close to Call also carried Al Gore's water.) Toobin fights against the popular notion that liberals should get over 2000, for it revealed conservative judicial activism, most…
Tim Graham
November 30th, 2010 5:52 PM

Joe Scarborough: Sarah Palin's Resume Makes Obama Look Like Winston Ch

In his newest Politico column, Joe Scarborough rips Sarah Palin whose "anti-intellectualism" threatens the GOP's success in 2012. With a scathing indictment of Palin's presidential aspirations, Scarborough asks Republicans secretly critical of Palin to stand up and voice their opposition to her presidential run. Scarborough questions former Alaska governor's basic intelligence for even…
Matt Hadro
November 30th, 2010 4:50 PM