Why is the Bureau of Prisons Squelching a Child Porn Link to Molestati

Shocking study indicates that 85% of convicted child porn users may have sexually abused minors, more than double the previous estimates.
Jan LaRue, Esq.
 

Harry Potter: The Issue is Parental Responsibility

Moms and dads must teach children to discern the good and the bad messages in the books and movies.
Colleen Raezler
 

New York Times Gives Comfort to Wall Street Journal Reporters Worried

Liberal journalists seem to fear losing their safe sanctuary for bias.
David Niedrauer
 

NYT Headline on Plame Lawsuit Dismissal Doesn't Mention Her Name

Mark Finkelstein
 

Dow at 14,000; ABC: 'Good Deal of Worrisome Economic News These Days

Repeating the downbeat spin employed when the Dow Jones Industrials passed 13,000 in late April and ABC's reporter warned “we're actually overdue for a correction,” less than three months later when the Dow closed over 14,000, ABC's World News put the news into a “yes, but” framework. Fill-anchor Elizabeth Vargas on Thursday night led with the record high close, but fretted that “there's a good…
Brent Baker
 

Rupert Murcoch 'Not to Blame for Media Mess

Pam Meister
 

‘Oprah's Doctor' and CNN's Paula Zahn Lament Conservative ‘Nihilis

As part of their week-long series of specials previewing their upcoming presidential debates with YouTube, CNN interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on Wednesday evening. Oz and host Paula Zahn discussed the media-driven "crisis" in health care. Zahn asked Oz, "what is the answer to piercing the bureaucracy. That is certainly something you can't fix overnight." Oz's answer: "Well, one of our biggest…
Matthew Balan
 

AP Leaves Armitage Out of Initial Story on Plame Case Dismissal

Patrick Ishmael of "NewsBuckit" has an answer for Noel's question about how the media will cover the Plame case dismissal.Ishmael found an initial reports first left out any mention of Plame name leaker Richard Armitage.*:
Ken Shepherd
 

ABC, CBS Complain Cereal Killing Isn't Enough

Julia A. Seymour
 

Valerie Plame's Suit Against White House Dismissed, How Will Media Rep

A federal judge has just dismissed Valerie Plame Wilson's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.Will this be the lead story of this evening's newscasts? Regardless of the answer, the Washington Post reported moments ago (emphasis added throughout):U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about…
Noel Sheppard
 

On The Surface of Things

Howard Nemerov
 

Upgrade Update

Author pictures, as you can obviously see, are back again. I had to rewrite the code from scratch and am testing them in the blog posts only.If I feel confident in the code, user avatars will come back in the comments but a two restrictions: 1) pics can be no bigger than 3kb in size, 2) they must be exactly 85 pixels high if you don't want them to appear stretched out. Private messaging is…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Buying Meat Worse For Environment Than SUVs

Forget about carbon credits. SUV owners should just stop buying meat, and all their enviro-guilt will disappear faster than a Big Mac placed in front of former President Bill Clinton. Such was the finding of a Japanese study published by Blackwell Synergy's Animal Science Journal, and reported at New Scientist Wednesday (emphasis added throughout): A kilogram of beef is responsible for more…
Noel Sheppard
 

Politics Imitates South Park. Will Media Cover Obama's Sex Ed for Tots

A Democratic presidential contender has hinted that he thinks some form of sex ed is appropriate for the nation's five-year olds.I'm not exactly holding my breath for media outrage or at least interest in the topic, but I though Good Lt. at the "Jawa Report" has some good observations about how yet again, life seems to be imitating South Park:Amazing. Simply amazing. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,…
Ken Shepherd