To Weigel (noun, verb or adjective): Biased left wing reporting under the guise of objectivity. Neil Irwin is the proud author of this morning’s Weigel piece in the Washington Post on the economy. Let’s start with the given that if the recovery were going gangbusters, the entire article would be about the stunning genius of [...]
So what? Who cares that the guy is white? Was this some kind of repudiation of his predecessor, the black guy, Ray Negin? If is was a repudiation, was it because Negin is black? Or was it because he was incompetent in handling the Katrina distaster? Incidentally, New Orleans, as Reuters reminds us in a [...]
Feb 7 2010 | Posted in
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Not to be the master of the obvious here, but it is going to be hard to convince people that the earth is warming . . . when it is not. The earth’s temperature peaked in 1998. It’s been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched [...]
Oct 25 2009 | Posted in
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Maybe if Obama stayed off TV for a few days, his numbers would improve. The guy has turned into Billy Mays. From Rasmussen. Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are [...]
Sep 18 2009 | Posted in
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Okay, if the state-run media won’t run it, then it is up to us to do their job for them. As Rush has noted many times, while health care reform may be Obama’s Waterloo, Obama is the MSM’s Waterloo. They have utterly abandoned any pretense of objectivity or professional journalism and are literally nothing more [...]
Aug 31 2009 | Posted in
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This fiction peddled by the president that you can keep your current insurance under ObamaCare bothers me every single time I hear it. A fourth grader can see that if your employer is the one deciding what your plan is, then your employer will decide whether you keep it or whether they dump you into [...]
Aug 17 2009 | Posted in
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Those CNN guys are sharp. You don’t get to be the number 3 cable news network by missing stuff like that. But if they really wanted to help their teammates in the Democrat Party, they might point out that maybe, juuust maybe, it’s how the Democrats’ own policies affect the economy, rather than the economy [...]
Jul 8 2009 | Posted in
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If you don’t find yourself laughing, or at least smiling, at this manhandling, you might want to check for a pulse. Contessa Brewer was trying to interview talk-radio host John Ziegler about the Letterman/Palin kerfuffle. Zielger had his own ideas about the interview should be conducted. It is beautiful, right down to Brewer’s phony hurt [...]
Jun 11 2009 | Posted in
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“I said some years ago that the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes was to have discovered a niche market in American broadcasting — half the American people. The reason Fox News has thrived and grown is because it offers a vibrant and honest alternative to those who could not abide yet another day [...]
Jun 10 2009 | Posted in
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If we just had a little more pixie-dust, I am sure everything would be fine(Image from Claudia Marchan) Too rich. The Community Reinvestment Act, enacted under Jimmy Carter, mandated that the poor and minorities should own their own home. Bill Clinton added a set of nice sharp teeth to it and forced banks to loan [...]
May 16 2009 | Posted in
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