No Party Label For Rep. Reyes Donation/Contract Story

Let's say the year is 2006 and you're the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. A story breaks that you "received donations from an Alabama contractor" but you flatly deny it has anything to do with "a $2.6 million no-bid contract for the company in a national defense bill."There's no doubt, particularly given the media's Republican "culture of corruption"…
Ken Shepherd

Oklahoma Unemployment Is Way Down. Will Media Look into Why

Oklahoma's unemployment rate, which was a seasonally adjusted 4.3% and 4.4%, respectively, in September and October 2007 (4.1% and 4.2% unadjusted), has fallen to a seasonally adjusted 3.1% in both February and March of this year (3.5% and 3.2% unadjusted). The unemployment rate in most states has gone up from September 2007 to March 2008. In states where the rate has gone down, none has shown…
Tom Blumer

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth

It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria. On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science…
Noel Sheppard

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Adds Leftist to Editorial Pages

Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

Amazon.com’s Forum on Religion: Great Place to Bash Christians

Over the years I have come to expect that atheists and secular humanists would take advantage of the anonymity provided by the internet to further their world view at the expense of those that lead a life based on faith in God. With little exception unmoderated discussion boards, internet based news outlets and blogs that bear any sign of religious content end up attracting those who seek…
Terry Trippany

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NB Staff

Curry Concerned About GOP 'Swiftboating'; Hillary: I'm Like Ginger Rog

Mark Finkelstein

Mika: Clinton Campaign 'Pounced Like Lemmings

Granted, there's lots of time to go, but it's not going to be easy to catch Mika Brzezinski, the early clubhouse leader for the Year's Most Inapt Metaphor.Barackophile Brzezinski made her bid for the prize during the opening segment of today's Morning Joe, accusing the Clinton campaign of having pounced on Obama like . . . lemmings.Let's set the stage: the topic was a TV commercial Hillary's…
Mark Finkelstein

Olbermann Frets at 'Imperial' Hillary's Pledge to Defend Israel vs. Ir

Brad Wilmouth

NBC 'Green with Envy' Over Swedes for 'Showing Kindness to Planet

Monday's NBC Nightly News kicked off “Earth Week” by trumpeting Sweden as an environmental and economic paradise that could point the way for the United States. Anchor Brian William contended Swedes “always seem to be so happy and beautiful” and now “there's another reason to be green with envy about the Swedes. We're told they are living green lives, showing kindness to the planet, and saving a…
Brent Baker

'Bigger, Badder and Grosser

MTV brings Tila Tequila back for a second, misnamed Shot at Love.
Kristen Fyfe

Media Trot Out Gorbachev to Attack John McCain

If they had a reality show for international politicians called "Biggest Loser" the most popular nominee for the title would be Mikhail Gorbachev, the man that lost his whole country, not merely an election. Yet, every once in a while and for some untenable reason, this communist loser is trotted out by the US media as some sort of expert on international politics. Unsurprisingly, his opinion is…
Warner Todd Huston

Time Editor Defends Doctoring Iwo Jima Photo, Calls Objective Journali

Stengel says global warming fight just as important as World War II. On journalism rules: We're 'making it up as we go along.'
Jeff Poor