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An oft-ignored bit of insanity in the health-care bill was the expansion in the use of IRS form 1099. For those of you who don’t know what it is, a 1099 has been used for as long as I can remember for businesses to report money paid to independent contractors. I got a 1099 from […]

As I was running an errand earlier today, I was listening to a local talk show host interview my congresswoman, Lois Capps. It was the typical softball interview you expect from a small-town talk show host. But there was one statement made by Capps that I’d heard peddled before, but I couldn’t believe anyone other […]

Shirley Sherrod, who was reflexively fired by the USDA a week or so back has announced she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart. No lawyer with half a brain – or working on a contingency basis – will take the case. Why? Well, a week later Chris Matthews figures it out. The Newsbusters transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS: […]

When your main claim to fame is meaningless platitudes, you’re going to get caught occasionally.

A couple of things jumped out at me recently as I've been reading some of how the purportedly mainstream media is covering the Journo-List and Tea Party "Racism" issues. First, the Journo-List, from Politico's Roger Simon: Recently, however, the conservative website The Daily Caller, run by Tucker Carlson, got hold of many Journolist e-mails and […]

Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. Don’t engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. If you’re Chris Matthews, don’t try to better Rep. Paul Ryan – you’ll lose. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Click over to Newsbusters for the transcript.

Heard anything about Cindy Sheehan lately? Wonder why? The last person to have “absolute moral authority” (AMA) granted to her by the mainstream media, Sheehan is no longer a useful tool now that the target of her ire would be a Democratic president. Sunday, on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Salon.com (does anyone actually read that site?) […]

Britain’s Guardian newspaper held a debate a couple weeks back over the Climategate scandal. The panel featured Steve McIntyre, proprietor of ClimateAudit.org and debunker of the infamous hockey stick graph. You can find a brief summary of the debate here. The audio of the entire debate is here at the Guardian site and certainly worth […]

As a follow up on the post immediately below this one, Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz takes on the Journo-list scandal and includes this line: But there is no getting around the fact that some of these messages, culled from the members-only discussion group Journolist, are embarrassing. They show liberal commentators appearing to cooperate […]

I must confess that I haven’t spent enough time writing about the Journo-list and the downfall of Washington Post “conservative” blogger Dave Weigel and today’s Daily Caller article on an effort by members of the Journo-list in 2008 to brand conservatives interested in the controversy over President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as racists. […]