One of the points made repeatedly in Tim Groseclose's "Left Turn" is not that the media lies, but that it conveys a distorted impression based upon facts that it chooses to include and facts that it chooses to leave out. Today's case in point is from The Washington Post. 400 billion Dollars said to be […]
August 2 is supposedly the drop-dead date for hiking the debt ceiling or, the consensus is, all sorts of “bad” things will happen. Commonly, this has been described as the date the U.S. would default on its debts. Hogwash. The U.S. Treasury is slated to take in more than $200 billion in August. Problem: It’s […]
Is this an admission or just another example of the gaffe-prone nature of the president of our 57 states? “So, when you hear folks saying ‘Well, the president shouldn’t want massive job killing tax increases when the economy is this weak.’ Nobody’s looking to raise taxes right now. We’re talking about potentially 2013 and the […]
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 18,000 jobs had been created in June and the unemployment rate had inched back up to 9.2 percent. A deeper look at the numbers includes some even scarier facts. The jobs survey was exceptionally bleak even in its details. Job growth in April and May was […]
If you’ve been paying any attention to the so-called progressive media (and The New York Times, but I repeat myself) for the past year or so, you’d know that the object of their shock and ire are Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries. The Koch (pronounced Coke) brothers are of a conservative/libertarian bent […]
Never, ever, ever send a “cease-and-desist” demand to a media outlet telling them not to cover a story. It never works, and then the newspaper or television station (or blog) then goes ahead and adds that to the story they were planning to run anyway. It makes you look desperate and ultimately foolish and impotent. […]
The Obama administration seems hell bent on trying terrorists in show trials in U.S. federal courts despite bipartisan opposition in Congress and in direct contravention of common sense. Just this week, the administration announced that Somali terrorism suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame had been captured two months ago and held on a US Navy ship where […]
This evening Jerry Brown signed the Democrats’ budget plan which included an unconstitutional requirement that Amazon.com collect state and local taxes. At 9:45 this evening, I got this: Hello, Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents […]
I’ve used that label to describe The New York Times editorial page for the better part of a decade. The filibuster is either a great evil or an honorable tool depending on who it is being wielded against. And then we get this: Thankfully, some Senate Republicans also seem to understand the importance of the […]
You know that tea partiers are racist and any “people of color” that do happen to attend those rallies don’t count. For comparison (via Ace) I give you the staff of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on CurrentTV. Of course, this would only be evidence of systemic racism if the host were conservative. Why is it […]