For the duration of the Bush years (or a good majority of them), the left had practically turned character assassination into an art form. Countless political cartoons depicting Bush as Hitler, countless citations of countless forms of demonization of Cheney, Gingrich, Limbaugh, and other Republican leaders. This ploy has served the left well; cut... »
Archive for August 18th, 2009
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
The Wall Street Journal has a great editorial today with the headline, “Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling”—and the subhead, “Too bad it’s not in U.S. waters.” The gist of it is: The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in... »
Public Option Debate: Red Herring?
Richard H. Thaler, professor of economics and behavioral science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, wrote a piece in the Sunday Times about health care’s “public option” and how this is a red herring, distracting from the issue of real reform. While everyone is arguing about whether or not... »
Health Care Costs Better Than Stimulus Packages
Craig S. Karpel, author of The Retirement Myth, has written a great opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago pointing out a very glaring—yet somehow overlooked—contradiction in Obama’s position regarding the economy. Obama has said, “make no mistake: the cost of our health care is a threat to our... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]