davidl on October 24th, 2010

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NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him for having expressed

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davidl on October 22nd, 2010

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Juan Williams, National Public Radio Fox News:

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and

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davidl on October 1st, 2010

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Dumbo is Delusional.  Alas too many cocaine parties and not enough sober study.  Proof that the Obama administration is demented.  Barack Obama had called Fox News destructive, but his administration has lauded the clowns Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow

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davidl on September 29th, 2010

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Did you know this was liberal commentary day?  Well neither did I but here it goes anyhow.

First up, Peter Daou:

With each passing day, I’m beginning to realize that the crux of the problem for Obama is

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davidl on September 21st, 2010

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The recession is dead, long live the recession, MSNBC.

The “Great Recession” has ended, officially.

At least, that’s the official word from the private research organization that calls the beginnings and endings of recessions, the National Bureau of

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davidl on September 15th, 2010

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Liberal reads Constitution, can’t find First Amendment, from Lucy Madison, CBS News:

During an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America this morning, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer addressed the recent controversy over a Florida Pastor’s plan to hold

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I won’t try to speak for the guy in Florida arranging for the very public burning of the Koran.

Nor, by the same token, will I attempt to speak for the  foreign-funded groups attempting to put a Mosque at or

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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2010

Mike Allen at The Politico:

Seeking to bolster the sluggish economy, President Barack Obama is using a Labor Day appearance in Milwaukee to announce he will ask Congress for $50 billion to kick off a new infrastructure plan designed

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Eric Florack on August 22nd, 2010

So, we read Dianna West:

Stonings at ground zero – that’ll be the day, right? The concept has no manifestation beyond the cold sweat of a dark hours nightmare. Still, there’s something worth gleaning from the not-so-free association process that

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Eric Florack on August 2nd, 2010

Hey, Bruce:

This “Ground Zero” mosque controversy has begun to rankle me. It is my understanding that those who want to build the “ground zero” mosque own the property there.

Secondly, it really isn’t adjacent to the old World Trade

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on August 2nd, 2010

As the BP oil spill unfolds in the Gulf and in our living rooms through our television screens, the coverage has focused on two major problems that it has created.  One is the flat-out brutal images of oil soaked pelicans;

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2010

An interesting John Hawkins interview with Victor Davis Hanson:

Victor Davis Hanson: I think that’s just part of what it means to be a privileged Westerner. It means that you’re going to be wracked by self doubt and you’re going

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Eric Florack on July 4th, 2010

I see it as nothing short of alarming that we go forward with the Fourth of July /Independence Day celebrations as if nothing was wrong; as if the instrument which has served better than any other to protect our freedoms

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davidl on June 16th, 2010

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None dare call it journalism.  Shublog, Ace of Spades, dissects the Washington Post:

News Judgment, Washington-Post style

Senator George Allen says “macaca” on camera? 131 articles, 13 on the front page.

Congressman Bob Etheridge commits battery on

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davidl on June 12th, 2010

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Year of the Woman? By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Slimes:

GOP primary voters, a deeply conservative bunch, don’t appear to have much of a problem with strong women in public life anymore. Not only that: The GOP is consciously

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