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Transparency in government sounds like such a high-minded right thing to do, so that the citizenry is informed and engaged about how their government operates. And with the election of President Barack Obama, that’s what we thought we might see.…

To have, or not to have. This is the question the media love to hype up.

In August 5 story for ABCNews.com, reporter Rich Blake touted government data indicating a record number of food stamp recipients and a “sharp” increase in the number…

If news outlets were fueled by bias, then ABC, CBS, and NBC would be Hummers.

Over the past two years, the media have declared Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) “dying” while celebrating the popularity of hybrid cars. Americans disagree. Data…

On Aug. 6, everyone’s attention will be fixed on the release of July’s unemployment numbers. The national unemployment rate is forecast to increase to 9.6 percent, according to Bloomberg News’ survey.

The White House tried to get ahead of…

Journalists Still Hiding Obamas Broken Promises on Jobs The White House made many claims about what the stimulus package would accomplish, including 2…

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Happy birthday dear Barry,

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Today is Barack Obama’s 49th birthday and an ideal time to mark a little more than a year and a half causing havoc in the…

“The Happiest Place on Earth” is not, apparently, the most optimistic place on earth. Last week Disney dumped Miramax for $660-million. A few weeks before, Disney abandoned its own prohibition against residential community development on adjacent…

We’ve heard the complaints from all parts of the ideological spectrum about how the 2008 TARP bailout saved the financial system, but also allowed some Wall Street banks to profit while many Americans still suffered – at least in the way some…

Higher taxes are good for the economy. That may sound a little bizarre, but according to a talking head at MSNBC, higher taxes will pave the way to economic prosperity.

During MSNBC’s Aug. 2 daytime coverage, liberal radio…

The media pompoms are out again.

In his July 28 “Street Sweep” blog, Fortune.com reporter Colin Barr highlighted a paper by Moody’s Analytics claiming government stimulus funds “averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0.”…

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If the newspaper business goes under, The Associated Press might try a second career as a fight promoter.

In a July 27 story following President Obama’s Rose Garden speech, AP released a tiny news brief about Obama’s call to Congress to…

If you want to get tax policy made into law, you need it approved by the House, the Senate and … the media.

A July 27 CNNMoney story reported on the “tax hike nobody’s talking about,” which is the tiny Making Work Pay (MWP) tax credit…

From his first days in the White House, Barack Obama has been criticized for his seeming indifference to the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom. Even in the wake of a visit from Britain's Prime Minister David…

Maybe now would be the perfect time for the former British Petroleum to market itself as BP: Battery Plug-in. The realities of owning and operating the electric cars championed by the Obama administration and the environmental left are difficult…

Should there be a “gatekeeper” regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that’s what CNN promoted on July 23.

Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the “mixed blessing of the internet,”…

If you heard taps being played yesterday evening, there’s a good chance it came from Time magazine’s headquarters.

On Time’s Ecocentric blog, author Bryan Walsh joined other media members in bemoaning the “death” of the cap-and-trade bill…

“A girl this pretty is not supposed to be poor.”

That's what Samantha Horton, a character on the July 19 Lifetime movie “The Clint List” said in justifying her decision to become a prostitute.

Jennifer Love Hewitt played…

While some people can’t stand the heat, the news media revel in it.

On July 15, USA Today reported that according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 is the hottest year on record. ABC and CBS morning shows…

Radio host and businessman Herman Cain could be a “dark horse” 2012 GOP presidential candidate, according to Politics Daily’s Matt Lewis. Cain is also CEO and president of The New Voice, Inc. and national chairman of the Media Research Center’s…