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MSNBC Freaks Out, Claims Court Removed 'Right to a Livable Planet'
June 30th, 2022 4:25 PM
To react to the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. EPA that the executive branch can’t regulate carbon emissions at power plants without Congressional authorization, Katy Tur Reports guest host Yasmin Vossoughian welcomed radical climate scientist Michael Mann to accuse the “reactionary, activist” Court of taking away the right to a livable planet.
Teen Vogue Hit Job on Sen. Manchin Blasts ‘Bipartisan Obsession’
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July 9th, 2021 1:24 PM
The obnoxious juveniles at Teen Vogue are at it again. In between puff pieces about transgenders and condemning the U.S. as racist, they’ve found time to lecture Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on “what young West Virginians want the Democratic senator to know.” Hint: The youth of the state that Donald Trump won by almost 40 points in 2020 want Manchin to move further left.
REPORT: 28 States Take on Big Tech; 20 Battle Online Censorship
March 31st, 2021 2:56 PM
Congress has remained locked in a stalemate over how to tackle Big Tech tyranny. Meanwhile, state governments have stepped up and decided to take matters into their own hands where the federal government has failed. The partisan gridlock in Congress grew more apparent as Republicans and Democrats clashed with Big Tech executives — and with each other — in a March 25 hearing. Twenty…
Slate’s Advice: Abort Your Child and Lie To Your Husband About It
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March 15th, 2021 4:09 PM
Progressivism is a form of cruelty that encourages women to kill their own children and not disclose it to their husbands, for the sake of mommy’s mental health of course.
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Maher: Smollett Could Have Been Assaulted 'For Free in Texas'
February 23rd, 2019 9:18 PM
Bill Maher had no problem working an insult against middle America into his opening monologue during the Friday night edition of Real Time. Maher talked about Jussie Smollett and how “he paid two men $3500 to assault him for being black and gay, something he could have gotten for free in Texas.”
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ABC & CBS Focus More on 3rd Place Loser Than GOP Primary Winners
May 9th, 2018 2:23 PM
Despite controversial West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship only finishing a distance third place in Tuesday’s Republican primary, on Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning devoted much of their election coverage to his defeat while barely mentioning the GOP candidates who won primary contests in numerous states.
Not News: Coal CEO Decries EPA's 'Power Grab of America's Power Grid'
July 25th, 2015 11:48 PM
In a speech at a Republican Lincoln Day dinner in West Virginia earlier this week, Murray Energy Corp. founder and CEO Robert Murray decried the Obama administration's determination to, as described at the financial news site SNL.com (to be clear, no relation to Saturday Night Live), "bypass the states and their utility commissions, the U.S. Congress and the Constitution in favor of…
Dems Unlabeled in Story about Fraud Investigation of Former Clinton Mi
April 15th, 2012 9:45 PM
There are a few Democrats in Vicki Smith's coverage at the Associated Press, aka the Adminsitration's Press, of the fraud investigation of former Mine Safety and Health Administration Director J. Davitt McAteer. As is AP's derelict custom in cases where Dems are involved in scandal or corruption, the party affiliation of those Democrats isn't mentioned.
The first Democrat…
WaPo Punked by Berkeley Warmist Posing as Skeptic
October 23rd, 2011 5:09 PM
Yesterday, in what appears to have been a not particularly sweat-breaking research enterprise, blogger Don Surber at the Charleston Daily Mail demonstrated that the Richard Muller, a Berkley scientist who the Washington Post's Brad Plumer declared to be a "cliimate skeptic," has been a believer in human-caused global warming -- since the 1980s.
Muller convinced Plumer that as a…
ABC Sees Conservatives ‘Mounting an Unprecedented Assault on Environ
July 31st, 2011 5:29 AM
On Saturday’s World News, ABC anchor Dan Harris seemed to fret that the current debate over the budget is taking attention away from an "unprecedented assault" that is being "quietly" waged by conservatives "on environmental regulations." As the report from Blair, West Virginia, focused on a coal mining technique that destroys the tops of mountains,…
Democrats and Double Standards at the NYT: 'Respected Voice' Robert By
June 28th, 2010 4:32 PM
The New York Times marked the death early Monday morning of veteran Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who served a record 51 years in the U.S. Senate, with an online obituary by former Times reporter Adam Clymer. While acknowledging Byrd's Klan past and his pork-barrel prodigiousness, Clymer's lead also emphasized Byrd's proud fight as the keeper of Congressional prerogatives. The…
Are You Ready For a TEA Party? Hank Williams Jr. Sure Is
September 3rd, 2009 12:01 PM
A country boy can survive the Obama administration. Just ask Hank Williams, Jr.The country music artist -- best known to millions of Americans regardless of their musical taste for his "Are You Ready For Some Football?" theme to Monday Night Football -- was profiled yesterday by Bill Lynch of the Charleston [W.V.] Gazette (h/t my NB colleague Tim Graham).Lynch spent a considerable…
'Bush Hurt Mine Safety' Meme Won't Yield to Facts
January 20th, 2009 12:21 PM
2008 was the safest year ever to be an American miner. The combined number of fatalities from all forms of mining was the lowest ever. 2007 (latest information available) also shows the lowest "all-injury" rate for miners on record by far. Yet Ken Ward Jr.'s early-January contribution at the Charleston (WV) Gazette to the spate of final-month Bush-bashing pretended that this data doesn'…
NY Times: Drop Out Hillary, You're Winning Too Many Votes
May 21st, 2008 4:25 PM
Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama by a 2-1 margin in Kentucky's primary on Tuesday (Obama won easily in Oregon), but the paper's lead headline didn't even reference it. While an article inside the paper did state Hillary's case for staying in despite trailing in delegates late in the game, it also forwarded bizarre suggestions that she should quit because she is...getting too many votes from…
