Gallup: Congress as Much to Blame for Oil Prices as Gouging

Noel Sheppard
 

Time to Bury Fannie & Freddie, Not Praise Them

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for corruption, bad business decisions and lobbying.
Pete Sepp, Special to BMI
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Mika Warns: 'We'll Get a Call' for Mocking Olympics

Could the NBC honchos be a tad touchy about criticism of the Beijing Olympics—especially when it comes from its own talent pool?  Was there a kernel of truth in Mika Brzezinski's light-hearted warning that MSNBC's Morning Joe crew would "get a call" if it persisted in its mocking of the games for whose broadcast rights the Peacock Network has over the years paid billions?When the subject of the…
Mark Finkelstein
 

AP Headline Asserts VP is 'Unpopular Cheney

Well, the Associated Press is certainly living up to its new rules of being opinion editorialists instead of reporters if the following headline is any indication: "Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney." This was unleashed on the world by the AP on August 5. So, I ask you, does "unpopular Cheney" sound more like opinion than it does simple news reporting? Certainly we can face facts…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Cafferty Highlights Viewer Who Wants Bush 'Executed for Treason

Deciding to showcase the allegations in Ron Suskind's new book which “says President Bush committed an impeachable offense” by ordering “the CIA to forge a letter to bolster his case for the war in Iraq,” CNN's Jack Cafferty posed as one of his “Cafferty File” questions on Tuesday: “What does it mean, do you suppose, if the White House did, in fact, order the CIA to forge a letter in order to…
Brent Baker
 

Solzhenitsyn: A Prophet Honored in His Own Country, but Not in the U.S

The great writer's commencement address at Harvard in 1978 was a powerful indictment of elitist liberalism.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy

Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.
Julia Seward
 

Gateway Pundit Escapes Truck Accident

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft got in an car accident Tuesday when his vehicle was rear-ended by a semi truck in St. Louis, Missouri. Luckily he was not injured. That's pretty amazing when you see the damage to his car.Glad you're still out there, Jim!
Matthew Sheffield
 

Anderson Cooper, By the Numbers

Anderson Cooper’s “news” broadcast last night was among the more lopsided I have seen in some time. I decided to count the number of positive and negative statements and characterizations about Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama made during Cooper’s lead package, which was about Monday’s back-and-forth on energy. During the segment, which lasted roughly ten minutes, Cooper and his guests generated a net…
Soren Dayton
 

Tuesday Funnies: Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad

Noel Sheppard
 

Nets Lend Credibility to 'Bombshell' Iraq Deception Allegations

CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN all jumped Tuesday to publicize the claims in a new book by a left-wing journalist, Ron Suskind, that President Bush knew before the war Iraq had no WMD and that to justify the war the administration forged a letter to prove a connection between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaeda. The journalists were unfazed by denials from former CIA Director George Tenet, which they…
Brent Baker
 

MSNBC'S Barnicle: 'Bob Novak, Despite Your Ideology, Is a Terrific Guy

Mike Bates
 

Media Use Suspected Spies as Expert Sources

As if the media's coverage of Cuba isn't fawning enough, now they are using “expert” analysis from three professors that the US government has identified as spies.Babalu Blog reported that, according to Army counterintelligence officer Chris Simmons, the US government believes at least three of the media's academic authorities on Cuba are actually spies working for the Cuban government. The…
Lynn Davidson