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It's time to revisit some of the sensationalized allegations that were trumpeted from the Mainstream Media's minarettes over the past few years, only to be largely ignored when they unraveled. You remember the headlines, now learn how they actually ended: "George Bush was not elected; he was selected by the Supreme Court." "Energy industry magnates had too much influence over Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force." "The economy is recovering, but it's a jobless recovery." "America is outsourcing all of its jobs to overseas workers." "100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the Iraq war and occupation." "300+ (the...

I have been a supporter of the Center for Consumer Freedom since I first saw their ads in DC METRO trains. I was agog to see posters that so brazenly opposed the status quo on topics that the P.C. police routinely defend. Understandably, the open-minded, tolerant, diversity champions of the far left often expressed their frustration with the ads by ripping them to shreds. But the ads kept popping back up, taking jabs at groups like PETA, frivolous lawyers and panic pushers. It seems that every time a new study is released about a food or chemical that may or...

It seems like every day I run across an article that informs me that some state's school has taken Jefferson and Washington out of the mandatory coursework, only to replace them with Cesar Chavez and Betty Friedan. As if only the white male students should be inspired by the Founding Fathers. Other school districts have cancelled dodgeball because inferior athletes may feel, well, inferior. Many school districts have disallowed birthday parties and/or cupcakes in the classroom because some students have summer birthdays and can't have their own days of attention in the classroom. The inane list goes on and on....

On any given day, you can go to the Google News website and type the words dependence on foreign oil and see the phrase mentioned in literally hundreds of newspaper and blog articles. Understandably, the issue has received greater coverage in recent months due to rising gas prices, but it doesn't take a news junkie to know that the phrase has been an underlying theme in news articles for decades. Politically motivated geologists and various other academics have declared each year, for the last fifty years, that there is only a twenty year supply of oil remaining in the world....

I have been so encouraged lately by the introspection that the media elite seem to have undertaken. All across the country, networks and newspapers have come to grips with the idea that even if they don't admit they are elitist and out-of-touch with average Americans, they know that they are at least seen to be. However, as excited as I am for the crack in the status quo and a riderless high horse, I fear that the void will be filled by conservative Republicans. The scepter of arrogance is never laid down - it is always passed to the next...

(Referring to Nick Kristof's Op-Ed in yesterday's New York Times): This is exactly the kind of constructive criticism that has been so desperately lacking in America lately. It's been the common practice for so long to mock and label anyone who proposes that people must take responsibility for their own actions and image, regardless of the validity of the public sentiment. Remember what happened to Bernie Goldberg when suggested that a lack of ideological diversity in the newsroom led to a bias in the form of liberal groupthink. Look at how the black community and its leadership chastised Bill Cosby...

It's about time we had a serious discussion about Martha Burk. Come on, you know who she is. She's the woman that, in 2002, inanely tried to compare Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters with racial segregation because it is a male-only private club. Never satisfied with the publicity, Martha exploited everything newsworthy to reintroduce her plight to the world via the Op-Ed pages. She tried to marry her cause to other issues in a vain attempt to remain relevant. She lost many supporters when she requested that The Masters be cancelled out of solidarity for the war in...

It's about time we had a serious discussion about Martha Burk. Come on, you know who she is. She's the woman that, in 2002, inanely tried to compare Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters with racial segregation because it is a male-only sports club. If you really can't remember or just don't have all the details, here's a timeline of the Burk vs. Augusta dispute. For an in-depth review, read this issue of the Capital Research Center's Foundation Watch. For an entertaining read, try this article from Failure Magazine; Martha Burk and the controversy won 'Failure of the Year'...

When I first heard about the Minuteman Project, I laughed it off as some kind of backwoods militia. I envisioned a compound complete with double-wides, Nazi and confederate battle flags, and shoeless, mulleted, mesh-shirt-clad kids chewing on spent shotgun shells. To be honest, I was offended by the group's adoption of the term Minuteman. I always hate when groups try to baptize their organizations with names that strike a positive chord with the public. The press did much to reinforce my view of the group as an out of touch, anti-immigrant, white supremacist organization. Here's a typical description sought to...

When I first heard about the Minuteman Project, I laughed it off as some kind of backwoods militia. I envisioned a compound complete with double-wides, Nazi and confederate battle flags, and shoeless, mulleted, mesh-shirt clad kids chewing on spent shotgun shells. To be honest, I was offended by the group's adoption of the term 'Minuteman'. I always hate when groups try to baptize their organizations with names that strike a positive chord with the public at large. The press did much to reinforce my view of the group as out-of-touch, anti-immigrant, white supremacist organization. Here's a typical description used to...

So, it looks like Sandy might have stuffed the stolen papers into his pants and socks. It also turns out that the papers weren't just Xerox copies of documents as the press reported last summer, and are continuing to report even now as the story resurfaces. What the documents truly 'are' is pretty easy to explain, which just might validate the vast left wing conspiracy theory.............

used to believe that the only field in the world where you can screw up every week and not get fired is meteorology. Now I believe that the only people that can consistently fail at their jobs more than the weatherman, are journalists. Here is an article that ran in the March 29th edition of the L.A. Times. It's just another negative review of everything college, probably written by someone who couldn't get a fraternity bid and spent his college newspaper days on a 'secret society' witch hunt. It was called: Hazing Death Highlights Chico's Greek Life After the latest...

A Great Article I read a great article today in the Opinion Journal, written by Bridget Johnson. It discussed Hollywood's fascination with communism, specifically Robert Redford's The Motorcycle Diaries. After reading the article, I posted this on her blog: The best novel about Communism that would make a terrific movie is Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1948. It is the personal memoirs of Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czech who escaped her Nazi captors at Auschwitz, who returned to Prague and married a communist revolutionary with grand ideals, and lived to see what true communism breeds. Her husband...

The people of Iraq speak (Filed: 14/02/2005) The birth pangs of Iraqi democracy should not blind us to the fact that Middle Eastern politics will never be the same again. As the results of the country's first ever free election were announced yesterday, there was a genuine air of excitement. The predicted victors, the Shia United Iraqi Alliance, fell short of their expected overall majority; the incumbent prime minister, Iyad Allawi, had to be content with less than 14 per cent of the vote. Both accepted results that were, in different ways, disappointing. This readiness to abide by the verdict...