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The latest issue of Time purports to explain "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace." (Hint: Blame the money-grubbing Jews!) There will be earnest efforts to point out why this is nonsense, but they will fall on deaf ears. These days a defense of Israel requires stronger measures. And perhaps nothing could do Israel more good than for the United States to declare war on it. After all, if you want to win the support of American academics, journalists, and movie stars -- if you pine for the approbation of the U.N. Security Council and NGOs the world over -- then...

TIME Magazine is partnered with CNN. Both happen to be the airport's favorite 'news' vehicles for bombarding travelers with liberal media bias. As CNN ratings plummet, we detect a heightened sense of desperation from Time's last-gasp efforts to sell issues of their rag. First, their cover depicting ‘Islamophobic' America and now their childish ‘anti-Zionist’ dust jacket.Ignoring sensationalism and rubbish is usually the best practice. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do...right after we illustrate how TIME deceptively manipulates its sheeple.

Time magazine has a cover that says that US soldiers should be protecting the women of Afghanistan from their men: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007269,00.html Of all the reasons that I have heard for continued US involvement in Afghanistan, this is the most stupid. America went to Afghanistan to catch Osama Bin Laden, not to engage in social engineering. It is not the responsibility of America to bring freedom to Afghani women. That job belongs to the Afghani people.

According to a new Time Magazine poll published August 19, a whopping 25% believe Obama is a Muslim and only 26% support the Ground Zero Mosque. This news comes on the heels of Mosque spokesman Oz Sultan saying he wouldn’t rule out using Saudi or Iranian money to build the Mosque and Nancy Pelosi’s call to investigate anyone who opposes the Mosque. And why is Nancy Pelosi so out of the mainstream on this issue? And just who provoked Pelosi to take such a radical and desperate position? In two words: SCOTT WHEELER, of National Republican Trust and the producer...

Dear Republican Party: Your moment is now. This weekend, President Obama defended the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque two short blocks from Ground Zero, despite cries of insensitivity from some New Yorkers and accusations of mischief from some pundits. This finally gives you an opportunity to add a powerful national-security cudgel to the message of economic woe you have been pushing as the midterm election approaches. The political potency of the issue is obvious. Polls overwhelmingly show the President has put himself on the wrong side of public opinion. Opposition to the new facility arouses...

Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin is pleading with Republicans not to use President Obama’s endorsement of the Ground Zero Mosque against Democrats in the Midterm Elections: Time: . . . . Yes, Republicans, you can take advantage of this heated circumstance, backed by the families of the 9/11 victims, in their most emotional return to the public stage since 2001. But please don’t do it. There are a handful of good reasons to oppose allowing the Islamic center to be built so close to Ground Zero, particularly the family opposition and the availability of other, less raw locations. But what is...

The risk that Afghanistan might once again become a staging ground for al Qaeda attacks on the US? Meh. The danger of cross-border raids from Afghanistan into Pakistan that could lead to nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists? Yawn. But a US withdrawal from Afghanistan that would lead to a setback for women's liberation there? Now you've got the liberal media concerned! Rick Stengel of Time gave a perfect illustration of the phenomenon on today's Morning Joe. As is his Friday wont, he unveiled the new Time cover, which portrays the heart-rending image of a young Afghani woman...

Second place looms large and it is quite an honorable -- or maybe onerous -- award on our top ten most left-biased working American journalists list. Amusingly our number two guy even graduated from a school that foretold his future work. From the bowels of New York’s exclusive Hackley School comes our number two most left-biased journo, Time Magazine’s Joe Klein. Klein is another one of those far left writers that imagines himself to be unconventional in his politics when the truth is he is a left-winger all the way down the line without a scoshe of non-conventional thinking. For...

If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would. But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all. In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Recently, Time magazine featured a cover story critical of the past sexual abuses of children within the Catholic Church. The following open letter to the Editor of Time magazine appeals for consistency in their reporting on the sexual abuse of children and asks why the issue of Indiana University's research conducted by Alfred Kinsey has not been addressed. An Open Letter to Time Magazine June 2010 Regarding: Priest Sex Abuse Stories Dear Editor: Considering your recent stories on priest sex abuse and your "enthusiasm" for protecting minors, when can we expect a story about the pedophiles that Alfred...

He is, after all, the man who informed the world that his ascendancy would be seen as the moment that "the planet began to heal." So I suppose it's fitting that his logo appear on the World Cup soccer ball, the event that will be watched by more people than any other event in human history. At least, Time magazine appears to think so. Check out the image of the ball on the cover of this week's Time, and compare it to the Obama logo, seen after the jump. Compare the Time ball, too, with an image of the actual...

The media’s love affair with Obama has started to wain with the Joe Sestak hiring scandal, that is unless you’re Time Magazine. Even the New York Times and MSNBC have started covering Sestak and others’ claims that Obama’s folks offered him a high level job if he wouldn’t run against Senator Arlen Specter. Somehow the huge story not only didn’t make the cut in the next Time Magazine, but they haven’t even heard of it. This morning on Morning Joe, Time’s editor Rick Stengal was asked by Mika Brzezinski if they were covering Sestak, and the man looked like a...

There was a classic moment on Morning Joe today when Mika Brzezinski asked Time editor Rick Stengel whether the magazine's current issue contains anything about the allegations that the Obama admin offered Joe Sestak a top federal job in return for getting out of the Senate primary against Arlen Specter. Hat tip NB reader sarainitaly. A flat-footed Stengel seemed totally stumped. He stammered and stumbled until Mika gently explained she was talking about "the Sestak controversy. Joe Sestak." Finally the penny appeared to drop: "oh, Sestak. No. No. There is not. There is not." View video here.

Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of Israel, and showed that support by wearing a pin that has both the American and Israeli flags while at Time Magazine’s Most InfluentialGala. This is the same pin she wore when she gave her State-of-the-Union address at the National Tea Party Convention. Sarah has always supported Israel and had an Israeli flag in the Governor’s office.

Bill Clinton and Prince may have been at last night's Time 100 gala, but the most buzzed-about guest by far was Sarah Palin (who, by the way, practically sat on her hands after Clinton gave a speech). Photographers, fans, and, yes, reporters like us swarmed her from the second she walked in the room with husband Todd and her 9-year-old daughter Piper. Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann practically jumped her for a photo op — though, granted, they did the same to Betty White. Ten minutes of complete engulfment later, Piper was clinging to her mother, repeatedly asking if they...

Gov. Palin appeared on Glenn Beck's radio show to discuss being named to Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential people. Beck made the list, too. Includes full audio of the interview.

The list is out and Time Magazine has once again chosen the world’s 100 Most Influential People. Sarah was chosen as one of the worlds’s Most Influential Leaders, and showcased in their coverage as an Icon. Sarah is seen with Time’s assistant managing editor Radhika Jones, who compiled and edited the project for the magazine: As Time is wont to do, they chose someone of note to write Sarah’s introduction. In this case it was none other than Texan Ted Nugent: “If Sarah Palin played a loud, grinding instrument, she would be in my band. The independent patriotic spirit, attitude...

NEW YORK, April 30, 2010 – Time magazine editors have named Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Antonio D. Travis to the 2010 Time 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most-influential people in the world, for his efforts after the Haiti earthquake. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Antonio Travis, right foreground, has been recognized by editors of Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his efforts after the Haiti earthquake. Travis is shown here with Air Force combat controllers (from left) Senior Airman William Barrett, Staff Sgt. Kyle Graman, Staff Sgt. Jose...

The 2010 TIME 100

There is no greater spectacle in the hamburger universe than the annual Rachael Ray Burger Bash, held at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami. At this year's gastronomic gathering, which took place on Feb. 25, I tried all the burgers and talked to all the chefs, and one thing is clear: the hamburger is at a creative crossroads.What was most striking about this iteration of the event (as opposed to other ones I've gone to, either as a judge or an observer) was how similar so many of the burgers were. Yes, there were a few exotic...