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***2ND UPDATE: A second vote early Wednesday morning resulted in more black smoke. Reports say the Cardinals will break for lunch and that there will be a third round of balloting late this afternoon or tonight. ***UPDATE: At 7:43pm Vatican

Last month when Obama’s poll numbers were soaring after winning the first round of budget battles with Congress, the media was falling all over themselves to report on those. But now that Obama’s numbers are tanking in the wake of

The Catholic Church is looking a lot more transparent and racially diverse than the Obama Adminstration these days. Before meditating and then gathering for the secret conclave in the Sistine Chapel where the vote for a new Pope will begin,

You would think a high-profile media reporter like Howard Kurtz would hold himself to a certain standard when it comes to what he aggregates out to the world. Well, not when it comes to trashing the Catholic Church. Yesterday, without

Last Tuesday, the Boston Globe published an editorial in which it reneged on its full support for President Obama’s signature health care legislation’s implementation in Massachusetts. The editorial, entitled, “Mass. Needs An Obamacare Waiver for Small-Business Health Plans,” argues that while

Appearing on CNN’s The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer on March 11, Mark Kelly said he planned from the start to hand over an AR-15 rifle he purchased to the Tuscon Police Department.  Blitzer then quoted a section from the

Because the mainstream media loves Andrew Sullivan’s willingness to say what they would like to in order to the destroy the right, the media props him up — even when he spreads unfounded gossip no one else could ever get

Watch Soledad O’Brien’s interview with Maryland State Senator J.B. Jennings, a Republican lawmaker: — — 1. O’Brien is condescending to her guest. She actually laughs at him throughout the interview. 2. O’Brien arrogantly assumes she knows more about what Maryland

Leave it to the Washington Post to spin the closure of White House tours by the Obama Administration as a lesson in civics and democracy. In Saturday’s edition, a story ran titled “In canceled White House tours, a civics lesson:

MSNBC host Ed Schultz surveyed his undeniably left-wing viewership on the issue of President Obama’s drone strike policy, specifically the targeting of American citizens for assassination. A full 78% took the time to text their support; only 22% disagreed. — —

Unlike 98% of the mainstream media, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News is more interested in reporting the truth about Libya than she is protecting the Obama Administration from that truth. While almost all of the media have done everything in

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report that says Palestinians, rather than Israelis, killed the infant son of BBC journalist Jihad al-Masharawi on November 14.  When the boy was killed during Operation Pillar of Defense in November,

Fox News: Barbara Walters refuted reports that Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving “The View.” Early on during Monday’s episode of the talk show, Walters discussed rumors that Hasselbeck was leaving “The View” because of the conservative opinions she often voices. “There

Mark Tapscott, executive editor of The Washington Examiner, did an interesting spot-check yesterday. Using the search engines of a few high-profile news outlets, he documented the number of references each made to conservative political activists, “the Koch Brothers,” as compared

It doesn’t get more ironic than this: Barack Obama, who boasted of how his administration was the “most transparent in history,” cracked jokes at the Gridiron Club annual dinner Saturday night about his transparency while the event was closed to

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will do the “full Ginsburg” on Sunday morning–appearing on the Sunday news shows of every major network. In addition, he will appear on a sixth show, setting a new media record. The original feat is

A study that concluded that gun violence costs Americans at least $12 billion per year was published on the front page of USA Today on March 5th. The research was conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE),

Last month 236,000 net jobs were created and the unemployment rate dropped from 7.9 to 7.7%. Though the media buries this fact, the likely reason for the drop in the unemployment rate is that 130,000 people abandoned the labor force.

Rand Paul may be getting attacked by establishment politicians like John McCain, but the Kentucky Senator seems to have made an impact across normal political lines.  Judging by the reaction of some on the left, Rand Paul’s 13 hour filibuster

Joy Behar, one of the original couch members of ABC’s late morning talk show The View, has confirmed that she is leaving the long-running show. Billed as a comedienne when she first hit The View’s couch 16 and 1/2 years ago,

Juan Williams has had to admit that a recent column he wrote contained full sections of a report by the liberal Center for American Progress and that he failed to attribute the source. Williams used CAP’s work, in some cases

The GOP primary in the race to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr. received little to no coverage leading up to the February 26 ballot from the mainstream Chicago media. Since winning the Republican nomination, however, the media have fixated on Republican

In reporting, context is everything — at least, it should be everything. But when it comes to protecting Obama and his failed economic policies, the media willfully lies by omission to manufacture a reality in which Obama’s policies have succeeded.

Once again we find Glenn Kessler doing the honorable, bipartisan work of holding a White House responsible for what they say and do. And once again, the White House has been caught lying regarding a sequester scare tactic, this time

***UPDATE: From an email: “Nolte’s Reagan-Obama job rate analysis is skewed in O’s favor because, sinceClinton, workforce dropouts are no longer included.” Below, a commenter accurately notes, as well, that Reagan expanded the workforce and still lowered the unemployment rate. Obama, however,