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NB Staff

Texas NBC Affiliate Praises 'Job-Creating' Ordinance that Finds Neglig

The government is continuing to encroach on freedoms more and more in the name of climate change. Case in point: An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy "green" audit, you will likely face criminal charges. According to an ordinance passed by the Austin City Council in November 2008, any home 10 years or older…
Jeff Poor

Politico Writer Complains: Sotomayor's Right About White Males Being W

Tim Graham

Corruption Scandal in Mass. State House... Name That Party

It's been a little while since we had a good "Name that Party" story, but leave it to corruption plagued Democrats and their willing accomplices in the Old Media to always find some time in their busy schedules to give us an opportunity to play our favorite game. This time it is a former Speaker of the House in Massachusetts who, along with a cadre of his pals, was indicted on corruption charges…
Warner Todd Huston

FNC's Baier Contrasts Media Focus on Murder of Abortion Doctor vs Army

On his FNC show Wednesday night, Bret Baier looked at how the murder of an abortion doctor on Sunday has earned much more media attention than Monday's murder by a politically-motivated killer of a serviceman in Arkansas, a disparity matched by the condemnation of the first killing by an Obama administration which has ignored the second. Baier reported: In the media, [George] Tiller was a top…
Brent Baker

A Pro-Life Jihad

The prop-abortion media is willing to smear the pro-life movement with the mud of the militia movement or al-Qaeda if it will enable their cause.
L. Brent Bozell III

Politico: Obama 'Out of Step' with Pro-Gay Rights Sentiment

Politico skews report on the president and same-sex marriage.
Sarah Knoploh

CBS: Obama's Success at Undoing Bush Policies Key to Crippling Terrori

President Obama's popularity amongst Muslims pegged to success at “pulling out of Iraq,” “ending torture” and “closing Guantanamo Bay,” are key to the chances of ending terrorism CBS reporter Lara Logan contended Wednesday night. She concluded her preview of Obama's Thursday speech in Cairo: “Terrorists who are threatened by Obama's popularity amongst Muslims do not want America's President to…
Brent Baker

Reuters: Osama Scared of Obama's Skills, While Bush Was a 'Belligerent

Tim Graham

CNN's Cooper Spotlights Woman Who Decided Against Late-Term Abortion

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a five-minute long interview of Diane Elder, a woman who decided to let her infant daughter live despite her severe genetic defects, during his program on Tuesday evening. The interview came about after Elder wrote Cooper after watching a similar interview he conducted the previous night of Lynda Waddington, a “pro-choice” blogger for the Huffington Post and…
Matthew Balan

NYT's Stolberg: Obama's 'Trying to Bring People Together' as GOP Fight

It was a liberal-fest on MSNBC's weekly "New York Times Special Edition on MSNBC" show, hosted last Friday by John Harwood and Norah O'Donnell and featuring a rotating gaggle of Times reporters, both in studio and on location. To preface a discussion about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about 20 minutes into the show, host Harwood (who also writes for the Times) broadcast a clip of former…
Clay Waters

NBC's Brian Williams Bows To President Obama

How much is "Nightly News" host Brian Williams in the tank for President Obama?Well, as part I of NBC's special report "Inside the Obama White House" came to a close Tuesday, Williams, while saying good night to the president, actually bowed his head.I kid you not (embedded video and partial transcript below the fold): 
Noel Sheppard

Austin, Texas Requires Green Audit for Real Estate or Face Criminal Ch

Local government of Austin 'green' ordinance requires mandatory $300 'clean energy audit' according to NBC affiliate; Non-compliance classified as Class C misdemeanor.
Jeff Poor

MSNBC's David Shuster Hits Obama From the Left on Gays in the Military

MSNBC host David Shuster on Wednesday criticized President Obama from the left, calling him hypocritical for leaving the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in place, despite a campaign pledge to end the ban on gays in the military. Shuster singled out Obama in his "Hypocrisy Watch" series, complaining, "But, here we are, more than four months into your administration and the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'…
Scott Whitlock