Posted on August 29, 2010 by Ben
A full year and a half after watching the left demonstrate their inherent inability to engage in critical thinking and to look beyond the campaign hyperbole of our now community organizer for president, we are now starting to see their inability to stick to their own principles, flawed as they are. We watched in amazement [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2009 by Ben
Major Portions of GDP Coming Under Federal Control In July of 2009, a University of Arizona economist, Professor William Boyes, stated that the federal government owns or controls 30 percent of private wealth in America. Boyes said his calculations were rather simple in nature not even worthy of a Nobel Prize. Continued…
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Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ben
NPR wants to know who’s right on the White House trying to freeze Fox News out of the press pool this week. This poll is simple and quick. Look, decide, and vote to tell ‘em what you think.
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Posted on October 23, 2009 by Ben
The “smears” outlined in this reference come from Media Matters. It represents what they define to be some of the most egregious distortions of Fox News. The claims of bias appear to originate from a single news/commentary format called America’s Newsroom aired between 9am and 11am weekdays on Fox News. Before diving into the claims [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Ben
While Venezuela’s President Chavez has made moves to tighten government control over her national media, America’s President Obama has embarked upon a similar campaign, but one focused upon a single outlet – Fox News. Recently, MoveOn.org has launched a campaign to encourage Democrats to stay off Fox News. The MoveOn’s Noah T. Winer launched it [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ben
Many on the left seem to have gotten their panties in a wad over Glenn Beck lately. The most recent gripe they have seems to be over Beck’s identification that Anita Dunn’s favorite philosopher is Mao Zedong (Tse-tung). [Continued...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009 by conservativedave
Former President Bill Clinton is heading to California to fully endorse San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom for the Governorship of California. If you think Barack Obama is clueless on how to run a government, you better watch your peas and cues and point your radar screen to the meteoric rise of Gavin Newsom in [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by Ben
The quality of the reporting of the recent ACORN debacle reaffirms to many of us what we know: the media is terribly biased, so much so that many view it as the public relations arm of the DNC. No longer serving the interest of the public, it advances the interests of the DNC. [Continued....]
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by Ben
Beck Now Attacking Individual Board Members of ACORN The lines above were used as the title for a uTube posting about one of Glenn Beck’s reports about ACORN. Whenever someone posts solid, fact-based reporting such as Beck’s and attacks the reporter by labeling them as “High Priests of Hate” it only serves to illustrate how [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2009 by Ben
The second quarter 2009 cable ratings show Fox News prime-time ratings jumping an unheard of 34%. The prime-time segment includes Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” During otherwise normal viewing hours, Fox News averages 1.2 million viewers on average, more than twice as many viewers as CNN which shows an average of 598,000 viewers. As for MSNBC [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2009 by C. Speight
Cindi Ross Scoppe of the increasingly irrelevent State newspaper has published a rant blasting Governor Mark Sanford “and his loyalists” for “distortions” – lies – about the state-of-the-state and what’s required to fix some difficult problems. “Screed” is another way to describe Ms. Scoppe’s diatribe. CONTINUE…
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Posted on May 9, 2009 by Mike O
Well, the responsibility of governance turns out to be a lot harder- and requiring more ability- than the rheotric of campaigning. Obama has proven so incompetant in actually coming up with a solution to what to do with the Gitmo prisoners that his own Democrat buddies in Congress took away the money to work on [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Lance
I was just informed of a remark made by the judge that banned homeschooling in California. “California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. “Parents have a legal duty to see to their [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Lance
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is to make an official complaint to the Garda Síochána today about the publication of what it considers to be a racially offensive article that appeared in the Irish Independent last week. The ICI said it believed the publication of the article, “ Africa is giving nothing to anyone [...]
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Masters of Context: Recent Shortcomings of Conservative Media
Many recent media driven stories, mostly from the conservative side, have been increasingly disturbing in their complete disregard for the context of the story. In fact it is more than disregard, we are now at the point of outright lying. The Drudge/Breitbart machine has mastered this process. Every day drudge spoon feeds links to readers [...]
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