Rock The Vote Encourages Youth To Use Sex To Pass ObamaCare

The political advocacy group "Rock the Vote" has a new video out encouraging young people to abstain from having sex with folks opposed to healthcare reform.Sadly, this isn't your run of the mill call for celebacy, for the video also instructs youth to use sex to get people to change their minds on this issue.The group's YouTube posting asks: "What would you withhold from someone who opposes…
Noel Sheppard

NYT Alone Rises to Clinton's Defense on New Scandal Revelations

An upcoming book, “The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr," deals with Ken Starr's investigation of the Clinton scandals of Whitewater and lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Politico got an early copy of the February 16 release by law professor Ken Gormley, and broke out some of the juiciest bits Thursday evening. The headline: “Monica’s Back -- Says Clinton Lied.”…
Clay Waters

Garrison Keillor: 'Lousy Holiday Songs By Jews Trash Up Malls

Garrison Keillor thinks lousy holiday songs written by Jewish guys trash up America's malls every year.So wrote the public radio host and satirist in an article at Wednesday's Baltimore Sun called "Nonbelievers, Please Leave Christmas Alone."Given the rabid anti-Semitism in the following paragraph, one has to wonder how this piece managed to not only got published, but also escape media outrage…
Noel Sheppard

Sunday NFL Open Thread

New Orleans is no longer undefeated. What will today's surprises be?
NB Staff

Dean's Dubious Memory: Now Claims He Said He Would 'Vigorously' Suppor

Will ObamaCare cover memory loss?  Howard Dean better hope so.  On today's Meet the Press he seemed to suffer a serious memory lapse, claiming he had said he would "vigorously" support Pres. Obama's re-election [H/t reader Melody].  Problem: we have the video of Dean on Morning Joe of December 17th saying just the opposite: that he would "not vigorously" support PBO's 2012 re-election bid. So…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

In Obit on Late Economist Samuelson, NYT Distorts His Kennedy Tax Cut

In its obituary on the passing of Nobel economics laureate Paul Samuelson, who died on December 13, Michael Weinstein at the New York Times lavished well-deserved praise on the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics for building "one of the world’s great centers of graduate education in economics" at MIT, but erred seriously in recounting his most visible public policy role. Also worth…
Tom Blumer

Milbank Corrects Other Liberals on Lieberman as 'Just Another Right-Wi

Tim Graham

'Beakman's World' Creator Touts Breaking the Law for Climate Change Le

Liberal bias once again found its way into the comic pages on Sunday. The science series You Can With Beakman & Jax is supposed to provide educational material to children, but sometimes lapses into left-wing environmental propaganda. In the December 13 strip, which appears in 300 newspapers around the country, writer/artist Jok Church (who also created the TV show Beakman's World) answered a…
Scott Whitlock

Alan 'Republicans Want You To Die' Grayson Wants Critic Jailed

The Florida Congressman that in September said "Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick" has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute and convict one of his staunchest critics. More precisely, he wants her "imprisoned for five years." The Orlando Sentinel reported Friday (h/t Ed Morrissey): [Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)] accuses Republican activist Angie Langley of lying to…
Noel Sheppard

FNC’s Pinkerton Corrects FNC’s Kennedy on Global Warming: ‘Cooli

On Saturday’s Fox News Watch on FNC, regular panel member Jim Pinkerton of the conservative New America Foundation corrected fellow panel member Douglas Kennedy – an FNC correspondent and son of former New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy – as Kennedy asserted that "you don't have to be a scientist to know that the world is getting hotter," and that "that's objective reporting to say that the world…
Brad Wilmouth

Leftist Green Party Member Exposed Using Wikipedia to Preach Enviro Do

Climate alarmists have put enormous pressure on the western media to suppress knowledge of facts inconvenient to their scientific arguments using a variety of methods to supress dissenting opinion. Besides threatening journalists, promoting the use of Nazi-esque insults like the word "deniers," and bullying scientists who publish research papers critical of their near-religious beliefs, alarmists…
Matthew Sheffield

Saturday Funnies: Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa

This may be about a week early, but it's way too much fun to wait. The good folks at Rebel Christmas Card 2009 have created a fabulous video short of America's favorite counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer interrogating Santa Claus. Before Bauer begins using his knife to find out what Santa is doing in the country, Claus marvelously says, "Think about what you're doing, Jack. No present for you…
Noel Sheppard

Gibson Rues Loss of Media Objectivity....Moments After Johnson Pontifi

ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, a long-time advocate of government-centered universal health care, again shared his personal view he “absolutely” favors passage of the current ObamaCare bill, though “I would personally prefer to have public option and/or Medicare expansion directly challenging private insurance.” Without irony, about twelve minutes later as he signed off as anchor of his final newscast,…
Brent Baker