Upcoming Health Hazard Alert: Hide Your Coffee, Girl Overdoses on Espr

Alert, Alert!! Hide your grinders, pack up those coffee makers and throw away those grounds. Coffee may be hazardous to your health!Is anybody willing to take bets on how long it will take before the food intake police call on the coffee and refreshment industry to place warning labels on products containing caffeine? A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.Jasmine…
Terry Trippany

Seven Astronauts' Lives Hang in Global Warming Balance

The screaming left is always going on about the lives that will be lost from the global warming boogeyman, yet I can't find a single newspaper willing to confront the seven lives that may be lost on Wednesday because of it. You may recall how Clinton/Gore EPA regulations forced NASA to switch to a freon-free foam, one that doesn't stick to the tanks, one that causes up to 11 times more damage to…
Mithridate Ombud

Chris Matthews Hungers For Karl Rove's Scalp

Geoffrey Dickens

Network Look at Markets: 'Armageddon' or 'Nearly 3 Percent' Drop

NBC's Cramer continues his agenda, CBS provides the temperate voice.
Jeff Poor

How Important Was NASA’s Change to Historical Climate Data Last Week

Last week's revelation by Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre of a serious mistake and subsequent changes made by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the temperature history of America has created quite a debate in the new media. While conservative bloggers were quick to point out the hypocrisy regarding the lack of an official announcement from GISS chief James Hansen as well as the…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate...
NB Staff

NY Times Provides Cover for Dem Shift on Iraq: 'U.S. Can't Walk Away

Mark Finkelstein

Margaret Carlson: 'Democratic Base Is Really the Middle American Base

The left-wing AFL-CIO union labor and Human Rights Campaign gay rights forums with Democratic presidential candidates held last week “suggest to me that the Democratic base is really the middle American base now,” former Time magazine Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Margaret Carlson declared on Sunday's Meet the Press. During the roundtable, Carlson, now a columnist for Bloomberg News and…
Brent Baker

Flashback: Merv Griffin Blasts CBS as 'Cowardly' on Reagan Movie

Brent Baker

CBS Pumps Over-the-Counter 'Emergency Contraceptives

News report dismisses the moral concerns of many pharmacists, and fails to consult medical experts about the controversial Plan B drug.
Colleen Raezler

Markos Moulitsas Abandons Netroots For Democrat Party Establishment

Folks that watched Sunday's "Meet the Press" debate between former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tennessee) and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas might have witnessed the final transformation of the Kossack leader from Netroots chief to Democrat Party operative. In fact, you could almost hear Emperor Palpatine cackling in the background. Ignoring the actual lack of substance in the discussion, one…
Noel Sheppard

BET TV Airing a PSA Telling Kids to 'Read a Mo F'n Book

Black Entertainment Television has been playing what is being called a Public Service Announcement created by a rapper named Bomani "D'mite" Armah. It is in cartoon form and made in the Rapper music video style. However, it contains some very offensive language even as the underlying message is one encouraging children to read by telling them to read a "mother****ing book, N***er." It's a mixed…
Warner Todd Huston

National Journal Editor: GOP Candidates Get Tougher Debate Questions T

As the 2008 presidential campaign moves into high gear, a common conservative complaint has been that Democrat candidates have so far been largely asked softball questions by liberal moderators at their debates, while the Republicans have actually been vigorously challenged by media personalities in theirs. On CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning, former Capitol Hill correspondent for ABC,…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate.Those about to watch the Ford-Kos debate, please feel free to share your thoughts.
NB Staff