Whether broadcast or online, all around the mainstream media today, there’s a bacchanalia in progress over today’s jobs numbers. 146,000 new jobs! 7.7% unemployment! Recovery! Success! America was right to reelect Obama! Whoo-hoo, v-i-n-d-i-c-a-t-i-o-n! And yet, all it would take
Couldn’t this Washington Post reporter, you know, call someone in the Washington Post to confirm or deny? Anyway, if this proves true, it’s wonderful news: The Washington Post will probably start charging online readers for access to newspaper articles in
If you watch the “fiscal cliff” debate play out across the mainstream media landscape, you would think that taxing the rich is the solution to all our deficit problems. Though we’re going to rack up somewhere around $10 trillion in
“We’ve lost the battle in Washington” for now, says Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), echoing the sentiments of conservatives watching the fiscal cliff negotiations in the U.S. capital. As a guest on “Istook Live!,” DeMint agreed with talk show host Ernest
In an interview last week on Heritage Foundation’s Istook Live!, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that the Obama administration “actually wants to steamroll what’s left of the Republican Party here in Washington.” During a discussion with host Ernest Istook about
When the conservative movement has a summit of its wealthy donors and supporters, the mainstream media frantically hyperventilates. Coverage of Mitt Romney’s donor retreats and summits associated with the Koch brothers are portrayed as deep, dark, secretive meetings where plots
On Friday morning, an Iraqi refugee used an improvised explosive device (IED) to bomb a Social Security office in Casa Grande AZ — the mainstream media remains silent. The explosion took place before the office opened for the morning, so
I’m enlisting to fight in Andrew Breitbart’s war. The political class in Washington has degraded America. Republicans and Democrats blame each other, and nothing gets done. The media exacerbates the problem, fans the flames and encourages false notions of “civility”
A few months ago, 85 members of Congress sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter about the swatting of four conservative bloggers, but the story got little traction in the mainstream media. However, when former American Idol judge Simon Cowell and
“Politics is the art of the possible.” The quote is attributed to Otto von Bismarck, a man not known for warm and fuzzy relations with political opponents. First as a Prussian general and later as Germany’s first Chancellor, he dominated
No sooner than conservatives began achieving electoral wins in the storm of abysmal Obama failures with the US economy and foreign policy, mainstream media began to focus on something other than the norm.They began to focus the nation’s attention on
At the risk of angering his base, House Speaker John Boehner opened the fiscal cliff negotiations with an immediate offer to raise taxes on the wealthy — maybe not raise them in the way Obama would like (tax-rate increase), but
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin rounds up some media criticism Obama’s facing over the politics he’s so obviously playing in the face of the oncoming fiscal cliff. Rubin’s correct about this: Obama’s conduct so far bespeaks of a man still determined to
After President Barack Obama’s reelection, more conservatives are calling for Republicans to attack crony capitalism in Washington, D.C., as shown by the new film “District of Corruption.” Sarah Palin first railed against crony capitalism on both sides of the aisle
Mainstream film critics have trashed “Red Dawn” for daring to show patriotic Americans battling against a foreign invader. That’s a no-no in politically correct circles. Now, The Wall Street Journal joins the fray, attacking the remake of the 1984 cult
In the fall of 1997, I joined Harvard’s environmental science and public policy program. In the introductory class, co-taught with the Kennedy School of Government, we were encouraged to think of politics as a process of social learning, in which
Last week, Rush Limbaugh said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is being “Romneyed” by the mainstream media because they see him as a threat and warned Republicans about the dangers of playing along with liberal and mainstream media organizations leading up
The Big Labor thugs continue toshow their true colors by attacking one of America’s most sacredholidays, Thanksgiving. The Big Labor Bosses have their own selfish interests at heart, working to save theirlifestyle, political influences and ultimate power. These tenacioustactics all
Rush Limbaugh last week blistered Republican establishment consultants like Mike Murphy and Steve Schmidt for getting “rich no matter who wins or loses” and enhancing their profiles with the mainstream media and the permanent political class by publicly denigrating conservatives.
The United States has led the world in reducing carbon emissions over the past six years largely due “market forces” and “technological advances” that have allowed for more domestic natural gas exploration and use. According to a report from the International
The Army uses the term “BLUF” – bottom line up front. The BLUF on Jake Tapper’s new book on Afghanistan, The Outpost, is that you need to read it. If you are a civilian, you need to do so
Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins claims that “conservative media lost the election.” He echoes an emerging theme in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment, arguing that conservative outlets were wrong about the polls, and that we failed to make our narrative
Democrats and the mainstream media have tried to paint Republicans as a regional — and predominantly Southern — party of white males, but nearly 30 percent of Democrats in the House will come from just two states — California and
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is going to take criticism from the mainstream media, which hates him and is no friend of Israel, for tweets he made regarding the Israel-Gaza war. Murdoch, a staunch supporter of Israel, first tweeted: Why Is
This year proved an exemplary one for conservative documentaries. “2016: Obama’s America” properly scrutinized the sitting president and became a sleeper hit for its efforts; “Occupy Unmasked” set the record straight when it came to the misguided Occupy Wall Street
