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A 'Comparison Of Two Speeches'..Really?

The latest dinosaur media meme involves a comparison of two speeches given within hours of one another on the Tucson shootings- Sarah Palin’s video and President Barack Obama’s in a Tucson Basketball stadium. Obama’s speech is lauded as showing him

Tucson Tragedy: The Case for Doing Nothing

From The Economist blog ‘Democracy in America’: Still, freakish death is profoundly unnerving and facing its immunity to reason tends to aggravate rather than soothe our cellular fear of disorder and death. Far from leading us to resignation, the inscrutability

How the media wanted Loughner to play out

Even now, the details on Jared Lee Loughner are still short on facts. He may have listed Mein Kampf as a favorite book, and Giffords is Jewish, so clearly he’s a white supremacist tied to fringe groups? Oh wait, he

Targeting A Media Beneath Contempt

In yet one more pathetic, wrong-headed bit of sophistry from fat-headed know nothing, Jonathan Martin at Politico, we’re supposed to believe that his insipid blathering passed off as wisdom means the recent tragedy in Arizona is about former Governor Sarah

Maddening Rhetoric

This was a madman. The activist old media will work overtime to lay the blame for the tragic shooting in Arizona yesterday at the feet of conservatives because that is the only template they have. They will ignore the facts

Media Racially Profiles Giffords Shooter

For the past two years the Establishment Media, the White House, the Democratic party, countless pundits, and entertainers have tried to cast the entire tea party as a group of gun-toting, Constitution-thumping, white supremacists. So it should come as no

Jared Loughner Now, Timothy McVeigh Then

In 1995, the internet was still trying to get its sea legs; it was nowhere near the force it has become today in getting information to the public. On April 19th of that year, 168 people were killed in Oklahoma

Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter

Don’t ever let a horrible slaughter at a supermarket go to waste. A rescue helicopter lifts off as first responders evacuate victims from a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Arizona, where U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) among others

Breaking: Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter

Don’t ever let a horrible slaughter at a supermarket go to waste. A rescue helicopter lifts off as first responders evacuate victims from a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Arizona, where U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) among others

Bill Daley Will Be New White House Chief of Staff

NBC News and Politico are reporting that Bill Daley, brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, former Commerce Secretary under Bill Clinton and long-time executive at Wall Street’s JP Morgan Chase will join the Obama Administration as White House Chief of

Politico Exposes TSA Scanners' Illusion of Safety

Hats off to Politico’s Roger Simon for pointing out that TSA Empress Napolitano has no clothes. She has no real plan for catching terrorists; she’s just hoping to “discourage” them while spending vast sums of taxpayer dollars buying really expensive

How to Cultivate a Food Crisis

Buried beneath the avalanche of press coverage about the lame-duck Congress, I found a story about President Obama’s mid-December meeting with twenty corporate CEOs. The purpose of this Blair House get-together was to discuss how to jump-start our still-ailing economy.

NYT Paints Fairy Tale Caricature of Obama

How on earth do you not challenge a statement like this? “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian. “He doesn’t crave the spotlight the way some of these other presidents have. They

Surprise: Chicago Election 'Official' Clears Rahm's Run for Mayor

From Politico: Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel won a crucial ruling from Chicago election authorities Wednesday night, when the official charged with hearing challenges to Emanuel’s residency determined the mayoral candidate should be allowed to appear on