UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon Goes Batty Over Climate Change, Upcoming Confer
August 15th, 2009 4:13 PM
Readers are advised to make peace with the Maker soon. If we are to believe the recent utterings of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (pictured at right), humanity -- or at least humanity living life as we know it -- is not long for this earth. The Sec-Gen's August 11 speech at the Global Economic Forum in Incheon, South Korea, was so over the top that it's likely the world's media…
Capehart: 'We've Got Two Problems. Um, I Mean, The Administration and
August 14th, 2009 9:18 AM
Jonathan Capehart let the mask slip on just how much the MSM is one with Pres. Obama and Democrats at large. Here's the WaPo editorialist on Morning Joe today, discussing the daunting task of selling ObamaCare to a doubting public:"We've got two problems here. We: I should say the administration or Democrats have two problems."Sorry, Jonathan. Cat out of bag. Toothpaste out of tube. Bell rung.
Patterico Busts TX Grad Student/Obama Delegate Posing As Doctor; Chron
August 13th, 2009 1:14 PM
Topside Update, 2:15 p.m.: Imagine that -- Roxana Mayer was also an Organizing For America "host" during the Texas primary last year. Anyone visiting here even semi-regularly knows that the establishment media consistently fails to determine the legitimacy of people who "say the right things." Further, when someone else, often a blogger, digs and finds the truth, the reporters and publications…
WaPo Editorial Writer IDs End of Life Problems With ObamaCare; Rest of
August 12th, 2009 12:01 AM
What Shawn Tully's column at CNNMoney.com did on July 24 to expose the truth about what ObamaCare does to the coverage of those who have employer-provided health insurance (discussed yesterday at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the Washington Post's Charles Lane did on August 8 ("Undue Influence; The House Bill Skews End-of-Life Counsel") to the myth that ObamaCare won't have serious negative…
ChiTrib Finds Illegal Immigrants Laughing at Idea of Returning Home to
August 11th, 2009 2:33 PM
While liberal Democrats pressed on the issue insist proposals before Congress for health care reform will not cover illegal immigrants, today's Chicago Tribune lamented that "Illegal immigrants face life-and-death decisions without health insurance."Tribune reporter Antonio Olivo served up a 36-paragraph story focused particularly on the plight of illegal immigrants in need of organ transplants.…
Violence At Townhall - Against A Conservative; Six Arrested, Including
August 7th, 2009 9:46 AM
UPDATE: We have some video of the attack. It appears that it is members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doing at least some of the dirty work. But it's conservatives who engage in violence and hate speech, right? The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that one of their own, reporter Jake Wagman, was one of six people arrested in connection with the beating of a…
Baltimore Sun: New Indictments of Dem Mayor Dixon 'Blow to Baltimore's
August 3rd, 2009 3:47 PM
New indictments on theft and perjury charges handed down against Democratic Mayor Sheila Dixon are a “blow to Baltimore’s pride” leading “political watchers” to huff in disgust that it’s time to “get this over with,” reports Annie Linskey this morning at BaltimoreSun.com.Of course almost all of the political watchers quoted in the story – the exception being University of Virginia’s Larry J.…
Dear Abby, Is There Any ‘Lifestyle’ You Won’t Embrace
July 31st, 2009 10:46 AM
Here’s a dilemma: You come to find out that Cilla, the sister who’s been generously contributing thousands of dollars to your three kids’ college funds, is actually a porn star. The college cash turns out to be the ill-gotten gains of immoral exploitation. You’re horrified and consider returning the money. Your husband disagrees. What do you do?“G-Rated Sister in San Diego” wrote to the…
MA Zoo-Funding Battle Hints At PC Zoo-Management Infection
July 30th, 2009 3:13 PM
The zoo I'm referring to is the Franklin Park Zoo (FPZ), not the Massachusetts state legislature, although the slang version of the word's meaning likely applies there as well.As reported in a July 10 Boston Globe story, in reaction to Patrick's line-item veto of $4 million of the FPZ's $6.5 million annual subsidy, Zoo New England, which runs the FPZ's two zoo sites, ".... in a written statement…
NYC Sending Homeless Away At City Expense; NYT Sympathetic
July 29th, 2009 2:29 PM
The Bloomberg administration in New York has happened upon an idea for at least partially solving the city's homeless problem: Buy them tickets to get to the homes of relatives in the U.S. or abroad who will take them in.Along the way, the New York Times's coverage of the story throws out an estimate of annual costs to take care of a homeless family that is either ridiculously high, or indicative…
NYT's Krugman Conducts Informal Canadian Health Care Poll; Result: 'Ba
July 28th, 2009 11:39 AM
The New York Times' Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and staunch champion of government medicine a la the Canadian model of our neighbors to the north. Just this past Saturday in "Toyota, Moving Northward" he flogged the advantages of the single-payer system Canada offers. He postulated that one reason why the Japanese auto maker is locating it's new RAV4 plant in Ontario is…
IBD: Individual Private Health Insurance Illegal Under House Bill
July 16th, 2009 3:27 PM
This post proves the point, as if it even needs to be proven, that you have to go to the editorial pages of publications like the Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily to get your news when leftists are in control of the government.When the topic is statist health care, that's doubly true.IBDeditorials.com got to Page 16 of the House's health care bill, did the investigative work the…
WSJ: RomneyCare's Failures in MA Not 'Widely Known'; I Wonder Why
July 12th, 2009 11:10 AM
An editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal bemoaned the fact that the state-run health system in Massachusetts is failing, and that its implosion isn't common knowledge.Formally known as CommonwealthCare, the Massachusetts scheme has the political name of "RomneyCare," in "honor" of the Bay State governor and former presidential candidate who championed its passage in 2006.The Journal…
USAT's Pathetic Pic At Story About Proposed Military Tobacco Ban
July 10th, 2009 8:03 PM
Call it "Yankee Imperialist Corrupts Impressionable Iraqi Youth":Am I supposed to believe that USA Today had no other more relevant pictures they could have used? The fact that they went back to an AP file photo from 2007 is pretty strong evidence that USAT's page-fillers were looking to make a point.Here are selected paragraphs from the related report by Greg Zoroya:
