Two News Stories
Two stories in the news today are closely linked, although I haven’t seen anyone draw the connection. The first concerns Binyam Mohammed, an al Qaeda terrorist who plotted to be part of the second wave of attacks on the United States following September 11. The Obama administration has now “returned” him to Great [...]
On Twitter, CNN’s Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear
It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain’s existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez’s own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush [...]
A prognosis compromised by optimism
Most of the news stories on the preliminary assessment by the Congressional Budget Office of the preliminary version of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation verged on the ecstatic.
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Podcast: The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team - Is it Illegal?
As Warner Todd Huston posted on October 7, Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to [...]
Why Should We Listen to Them?
The editors and reporters at the New York Times are constantly hectoring us on various subjects, in their editorials as well as their news stories. Sometimes the subject is climate change, which requires a sophisticated knowledge of mathematics to evaluate competing theories. Or maybe it’s health care, where the paper’s editors denounce the [...]
Boehner: Hey, Remember That Time When the Speaker of the House Said the CIA Lied to Her?
With the media focusing their attention on real news stories, like the growing Christianist terrorist movement in this country, you probably haven’t heard much about Nancy Pelosi lately. Remember her? The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who accused the Central Intelligence Agency of lying when it claimed it had briefed her on the [...]
