Eggheads and Cheese Balls
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: April 16, 2008
PHILADELPHIA
I’m not bitter.
I’m not writing this just because I grew up in a house with a gun, a strong Catholic faith, an immigrant father, brothers with anti-illegal immigrant sentiments and a passion for bowling. (My bowling trophy was one of my most cherished possessions.)
My family morphed from [...]
The ‘Recession’ Is a Media Myth
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
By John R. Lott, Jr.
During the 2000 election, with Bill Clinton as president, the economy was viewed through rose-colored glasses. According to polls, voters didn’t realize that the country was in a recession. Although the economy started shrinking in July 2000, most Americans through the entire year [...]
Hollywood A-Listers
Prove Ignorance in
Supporting Hugo Chavez
Monday, March 31, 2008
By Thor Halvorssen
/ AP
Aug. 1, 2007: Actor Sean Penn smiles during his visit to the Venezuelan Villa del Cine Studios in Caracas.
Aug. 1, 2007: Actor Sean Penn smiles during his visit to the Venezuelan Villa del Cine Studios in Caracas.
HOLLYWOOD — FOXNews.com readers may remember the film “Team America: [...]
John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)
Middle East Imperative
October 16, 2007
BY: JIM CASH, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put this conflict in proper perspective.
Understand, the current battle we [...]
About 22 demonstrators gathered outside the ABC News building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to deliver a petition reportedly bearing 200,000 signatures of people who agree that “FOX News is a Republican mouthpiece” and that networks, including ABC News, should stop “parroting” the Fox News Channel’s talking points.
MoveOn.org, a liberal political activism group, sponsored the [...]
A Liberal’s act upon hearing TRUTH:
1. Ignore the story - pretend it is not happening, or deflect like crazy.
2. Find some sort of moral equivalence or a story from 30 years ago saying a Conservative did something sort of similar.
3. Come up with some conspiracy theories. This is usually the most amusing part, reading and [...]
A Clean, Fair Fight
Published: March 5, 2008
If recent history is any guide, this fall’s presidential election will be marred by vote suppression and cynical dirty tricks. Congress still has time to stop some of the worst offenses. The Senate is considering two bills, one to outlaw so-called vote caging and another to rein in duplicitous [...]
More Americans turning to Web for news
Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:48am EST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
While most [...]
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential
elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has
to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with
two groundbreaking candidates are a woman and an African-American and while
the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod
to a quasi-liberal [...]
OBAMA HEADLINES
WILL FUEL HIS DRIVE
TO THE TOP
By DICK MORRIS
The USA Today headline on Monday said it all: “Obama Erases Clinton Lead.” The press on the day before Super Tuesday has been the best that Obama could hope for. In a race dominated by perception, you could not buy more favorable publicity than the [...]
