By Dan Gainor Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:24 PM EDT Spinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That wasn’t how the media reported it. Negative reports and stories spun negatively accounted for 58 percent […]
By Dan Kennedy Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:22 PM EDT I have just returned from a week in London. The food was gray, weather grayer, and their economy bleak, dark and foreboding. Their coalition government’s hastily cobbled together “austerity program” became a big U.S. news item while I was there, but our news doesn’t do […]
By Meredith Turney 10/19/2010 Millions of people around the globe have flocked to movie theatres to see director James Cameron’s hit films such as “Titanic” and “Avatar.” But in order to have the money to pay for those movie tickets, viewers had to have a job. Such is the irony in Cameron’s latest political activity, […]
Posted by James Richardson A California union stagehand was abruptly terminated Friday for wearing a “George H. W. Bush” sweat shirt and hat while constructing a stage to be used for a get out the vote rally featuring President Barack Obama. Duane Hammond says his clothes were not a political statement, rather a sign of […]
by David J. Rusin • Oct 22, 2010 at 9:34 am “Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality.” Those apt words were spoken by journalist Juan Williams on the October 18 edition of Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, during a segment on how to discuss the jihad. Moments […]
Posted by Erick Erickson National Public Radio has fired Juan Williams, its long time correspondent, over remarks Williams made on the O’Reilly Factor. Specifically, in a conversation about Islamic terrorism, Williams said on the O’Reilly Factor that he sometimes had fear on airplanes seeing muslim passengers in Islamic garb. NPR said Juan Williams’ comments “undermined […]
Despite Obama’s tax hikes and campaign against ‘tax cuts’ for the wealthy, broadcast evening news shows portray president as taxcutters’ champion. By Julia A. Seymour Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:52 PM EDT Full Report Once upon a time, there was a nation besieged by what many called The Great Recession. The unemployment rate was climbing, […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 19, 2010 How should American voters concerned with Israel’s welfare and security vote in the U.S. Congressional elections on Nov. 2? This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic control over the executive and legislative branches of government: Democrats consistently support Israel and its government far […]
Speech was given to Western Conservative Political Action Conference in Newport Beach on October 15, 2010. What a difference two years makes! During the debacle two years ago, the generic Republican Congressional candidate trailed the Democrat by 6 points among likely voters in the Gallup poll. Today, Gallup reports that the generic Republican leads the […]
Shocking British short to promote cutting carbon emissions shows skeptics being blown up for not participating. By Julia A. Seymour Business & Media Institute 10/6/2010 3:11:11 PM Red is the new green, according to a horrific short film put together by global warming alarmists in Britain for 10:10 a “Global Day of Doing.” Blood red […]
