Networks Darken 'Black Friday

BMI Staff

Dana Milbank on CNN: 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy' Trying to Stop Hilla

During his regular “Political Daily Briefing’ feature on CNN’s “No Bias, No Bull” program on Tuesday evening, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used Hillary Clinton’s famous descriptive about her conservative opponents in describing one group’s latest effort against the outgoing New York senator: “A group called Judicial Watch, charter members of the vast right-wing conspiracy -- they were on…
Matthew Balan

Dear WSJ: Government Can't Even Get Socialism Right

Auto industry and 'sadistic' anti-capitalists.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Shhhhhhhh! Dow Loses Nearly 2,300 When Bernanke Talks

In last six months, 65 percent of days when Fed chairman speaks show market declines, including three of worst drops in history.
Jeff Poor

Networks Darken 'Black Friday

Broadcast journalists marginalize increased turnout, spending; focus on downbeat angles of holiday shopping.
Matt Philbin

'Dan Rather: Unleashed' = Evils of 'Huge Conglomerate' Owning All the

Brent Baker

NPR: 'Tennessee Racists Vote for McCain, Elect Republicans to State Le

Against the odds, GOP candidates in the state of Tennessee experienced a historic win. In addition to delivering the state to John McCain, Republicans won both chambers of the state legislature. And, as the Wall Street Journal reported, "Sen. Lamar Alexander became the first Republican to carry all but one county in his re-election win -- even taking a quarter of Tennessee's black votes." NPR was…
Jacob S. Lybbert

Maddow's Response to News of Recession: Irrational Exuberance

Hey gang, didya hear the news? It's official, according to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC -- we're in a recession! Maddow could barely contain her mirth on her cable show Monday in conveying word of the National Bureau of Economic Research reporting that the economy officially dropped into recession last December.Here's how Maddow described it --It may not seem like news to learn as we did officially…
Jack Coleman

Gay White Mother of Black Adopted Son: That Qualifies You for the Cabi

Tim Graham

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is Bush the worst president in 50 years? Mr. Rove and Mr. Kristol were paired against Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, and British columnist Sir Simon Jenkins, of the Guardian....The most heated moments came during the debate over Mr. Bush's biggest decision - the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The president…
NB Staff

Essay: Free Speech Alliance to Fight Return of the Censorship Doctrine

Summary:  The so-called "Fairness" Doctrine again looms to take away conservatives' access to talk radio Editors Note: This originally appeared in Human Events on December 1, 2008.  Click here to sign the Free Speech Alliance petition, and stand at the ready for whenever any liberal again threatens the First Amendment with talk of reinstating the Censorship Doctrine.   The Government…
Seton Motley

Harry Reid's 'Smelly Tourists' Comment: No Republican or Conservative

Some think that Harry Reid must live a charmed life. After all, he asserted last year that the Iraq War "is lost." Now it looks like victory, at least to seasoned on-the-ground observers like Michael Yon. He has fretted over how fossil fuels like coal make us sick. Never mind that life expectancy, largely, uh, fueled by industrialization and its accompanying higher living standards, continues to…
Tom Blumer

Kathleen Parker Can't Help Herself

Tim Graham

Unsurprisingly, Illegal Deported for Armed Robbery Finds NYT in His Co

A criminal without legal status deported by US immigration officials is the subject of the latest pity party thrown by The New York Times. The Times seems to find it lamentable that this gang member and armed robber was deported from "his homeland" -- that would be the USA -- to Cambodia, the land of his birth (one he left when he was a 3-year-old). Why does the NYTimes bemoan the deportation of…
Warner Todd Huston