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Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has completed her analysis of her paper's campaign coverage and the numbers aren't good for those supporting the proposition that the media has been fair and balanced in its coverage of the 2008 presidential contest. The numbers: Stories about the candidates (since Nov. 11, 2007): Obama: 946 McCain: 786 After […]

Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, is it time for the mainstream media to get out of Obama's tank? Nope.   Chris Matthews: Well, you know what. I want to do everything I can do to make this thing work, this new presidency work. Joe Scarborough: Is that your job? Matthews: Yeah, that […]

Sen. Robert Byrd will be stepping down as the head of the Senate Appropriations committee. The move came after the Senate agreed to rename the committee: "The Robert C. Byrd Committee for the Promotion of Pork." The committee becomes the 10,000th thing to be named after the senator from West Virginia. Others include: The Robert […]

I just got done watching President-elect Barack Obama's first press conference. A few interesting questions asked, not asked and not answered: CNN's Candy Crowley asked Obama whether anything he learned in the intelligence briefings he's received as president-elect gave him pause or caused him to reconsider positions he'd taken during the general election. Obama declined […]

Reports like this almost make you feel sorry for Obama supporters.

We'll set aside politics for a moment to note that this is a truly momentous day. The American people, less than 50 years removed from Jim Crow, have elected a mixed race man President of the United States. Let us hope and pray that that fact is not the sum total of his achievements as […]

It looks like America is going to get the kind of government it deserves. Everyone who voted for Obama because he couldn't possibly be as liberal as his history suggests had better start hoping they were right.

Normally when the news media misses a story and you're presented with the question: "Was it malicious or just stupid?" I tend to side with the "stupid" choice. I've mentioned this before, and former CBS newsman and author Bernie Goldberg agrees, but the liberal bias that comes out of mainstream media newsrooms isn't a conscious […]

This isn't one of those wacko conspiracy about Barack Obama's birth certificates. This is about Obama learning to keep his fingers to himself. For those of you who think it's an innocent little gesture, this isn't the first time. What a jerk.

[Portions of this post were originally part of the social justice post below. During the editing process, I determined that though they were related, this was sufficiently off of my central thesis in that post to deserve its own.] If the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ever makes it into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, it will undoubtedly be […]