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Remember how the far left in America has said since the rise of the Tea Party that the right is awash in “violent rhetoric”? What about the proposition to kill the Boy Scouts like one would kill a rabid dog?

Get ready for the assault on Niall Ferguson. Harvard is not a friendly and open place. It’s a place that often demands ideological conformity, as current Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers found out when he had the temerity to suggest

President Barack Obama dramatically ended his two-month hiatus from press questions on Monday when he sauntered into the White House briefing room to take questions from the White House press corps. Last week, the White House press corps, lashed out

For the last several years, the Obama administration has acted as though the press was an arm of the White House. They give exclusive access to friends; they punish enemies. And most of all, they don’t allow anyone in the

Now that Mitt Romney has come out with two different statements strongly condemning Republican senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about rape and abortion, the media finds that they will need to gin up another reason to aid and abet Barack

Almost as soon as Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney’s choice for the Republican vice presidential nominee, the left began an interesting line of attack: smearing Ryan as some sort of cultist of the philosopher and Atlas Shrugged novelist Ayn

Several newspapers have recently announced that far left leaning, non-profit foundations such as The Ford Foundation have given them hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover “the news.” Many wonder if this “coverage” is being programmed by these left-wing moneymen.

Never forget the media template for this election. Barack Obama is the Rock Star who connects with voters on a level never before seen and there can be no other Rock Star. They pulled it off in 2008, they will

Why is the Activist Old Media so obsessed with Mitt Romney’s taxes?  He has released what is federally required, he has been as transparent as most other presidential candidates, so why the obsession? The short answer is that as Barack

Recently, the fact-checking organizations PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org failed to properly analyze an ad by President Obama claiming that Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than the average American. Just Facts President Jim Agresti and I subsequently hammered both organizations

Harry Montevideo, publisher of The Red and Black, which calls itself an “independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community,” issued this video statement on yesterday’s mass resignation of the student staff: Here’s the full transcript of his statement, which

The Boston Globe demanded that Vice President Joe Biden apologize for racially-charged remarks in a speech delivered this week.  In front of an audience half filled with African-Americans, Biden claimed Republicans want to put blacks “back in chains.” Many left-wing pundits and Democrats

Representative Chris Van Hollen appeared on Greta Van Sustren’s show Thursday to discuss the selection of Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket. As the interview progressed, Greta asked Van Hollen about the video clip in which Erskine Bowles praises Ryan.

Andrea Mitchell took DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to the woodshed on Friday, noting the President’s failure to face the DC press corps in the last two months. Wasserman-Schultz did her best to deflect, but wasn’t helped by audio from a

The New York Times finally deigned to consider the motive of the domestic terrorist that shot up the Family Research Council earlier this week and in its wisdom it has decided that maybe, just maybe, there is a long shot,

From the moment House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney’s running mate, many Democrats have gone into panic mode because they actually must now defend the fact that ObamaCare is partially paid for with Medicare funds taken

Friday on CNN, at the conclusion “CNN Newsroom” shortly before 1 p.m. EST, anchor Ashleigh Banfield ran a segment that urged caution in judging the motives of Floyd Corkins, who shot a guard at the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C.

There has been evidence for some time that the New York Times was the leading mouthpiece for Barack Obama, publishing pieces that backed him every chance they got. It turns out that not only are they his mouthpiece, they don’t

Once again we see an Obama/abortion supporter who cannot keep to a civil debate. This time in Wisconsin where Appleton resident Mary Hogland, 83, tried to interrupt a small, private Romney event. When her outburst was vociferously opposed by the

Perhaps in an attempt to prove she isn’t a left-winger after all, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien has found an Obama talking point that she feels quite comfortable slamming. O’Brien finds the spin that Vice President Biden didn’t mean anything by his

Eric Bates, the executive editor of the scintillating, intellectual journal Rolling Stone, wants us to just forget about worrying over Vice President Joe Biden’s constant gaffes. We all “get” Joe, he says, so let’s just ignore his long trail of

Both TIME magazine and CNN have finished their internal review of Fareed Zakaria and have come to the conclusion that his plagiarism was an “isolated incident.” Hence, the Zak is back! TIME announced that Zakaria’s obvious — and admitted —

On Thursday, the FBI revealed that the man who shot a guard at the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C. building had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his bag, worked for an LGBT organization, told his parents he had  “strong opinions with respect to

Conservative voice Josh Treviño, formerly of RedState and the Texas Policy Center, was recently announced by the Guardian as their newest columnist. His conservative perspective will counter that of fellow new hire, Glenn Greenwald of Salon. Two new hires, one

After Vice President Joe Biden’s epic gaffe in which he suggested to a largely black audience in Virginia that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wanted to “put y’all back in chains,” the mainstream media has been desperately seeking a way