Oct 14, 2009 – He also tried the aw-shucks note that his daughter found the news as equal to the family dog's birthday. … Like the American media, the snobbish Nobel elites are painting the prize as a sort of political cartoon of the Bush foreign policy … But our national news media oughtn't be surprised. They are in the tank, too.…

Oct 14, 2009 – The headline on the front page made it sound like big news: UN nuclear chief sets Iran inspection. So? … The switch from nuclear power to nuclear weapons is less a scientific than a political decision for the Iranians at this point. … James Jones, this president's national "security" adviser, says he still believes Tehran gave up its attempt to develop nuclear weapons…

Oct 12, 2009 – “Support political art” no doubt sounded hip when the authors were miming a Paul Simon song and grooving on Barack posters. … It has an ugly Soviet ring since the failed propaganda coup at the National Endowment for the Arts. … “Get news that’s truly fair and balanced” has a whiny copycat sound as well.…

Oct 11, 2009 – Such is the case in the battle for NY-23, where national conservatives have rallied around the Conservative candidate for U.S. … This was rightly judged to be huge news, inasmuch as The Club's involvement injects the resources needed to create a viable third-party … The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and top Republican Congressional leaders view Hoffman as merely a "spoiler"…

Oct 11, 2009 – The “Overseas Contingency Program” – more commonly known as the “war on terror” – is back at the center of the political world … Yet opting for “overseas contingency plan” as its national security catch phrase doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. … “Creating a perception of constant fear and using that fear for political gain is very dangerous.”…

Oct 8, 2009 – Here’s a look at what has been making news in France in the past week: France Telecom suicides: Twenty-four employees of France … suicides, and whether the number of suicides is higher than the national French average (in fact, it’s lower). … About 70% of the French National Assembly (equivalent of the American Congress) has such a private sector gig.…

Oct 27, 2009 – With the Virginia gubernatorial campaign not going well for Deeds, the Post reported on Friday that "Democrats at the national level … The fighting between Democrats on a national level and Democrats on a state level shows how much trouble the Deeds campaign is currently … However, even with continued negative news for the Democratic nominee in this campaign, Republicans should not overestimate their prospects…

Oct 27, 2009 – But Obama's war against the network is about much more than Fox News. … It is about his and his fellow liberals' intolerance for political dissent and their war on political criticism from any corner. … A handful of liberals, to be fair, have criticized Obama for his war on Fox News and conservative talkers.…

Oct 25, 2009 – RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the direction of the … says Villanova political science professor Lara Brown. “In two words: disillusionment and disgust.” … The White House simply added insult to injury with is fight with Fox News.…

Oct 23, 2009 – If you were tuned into the Glenn Beck Program on Fox News Channel yesterday, you watched Beck answer a phone, ostensibly talking to … Bauer chairs the political law group Perkins Coie and has served in Obama's presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee…

Oct 22, 2009 – New survey results out today from Pew Research are bad news for President Obama and other global warming activists hoping to impose … survey, there has been a "sharp decline" over the last year in Americans who subscribe to the theory of global warming:The latest national … Pew says that the political ramifications have been specifically significant among Independents: Just 53% of independents now see…

Oct 22, 2009 – Dunn extolled Mao Zedong as one of her two favorite "political philosophers," though neither was a philosopher. … Dunn's other controversial outburst is her singling out Fox News as a political enemy against whom the White House will push back. … said Fox is "not really a news organization."…

Oct 22, 2009 – News flash: It often snows in Syracuse. And it rains. Even floods, sometimes. … Another news flash: these are not federal disasters. Or, at least, they shouldn’t be. … Presumably -- even in Syracuse, where the “news” was released -- most of the ice had melted by July.…

Oct 22, 2009 – It is no mystery why the White House has made Fox News a target. … Because Republicans have no credible national leader, the administration has settled on Fox News. … Political leaders, going back to our founding, have criticized the press.…

Oct 21, 2009 – Then again, does biased political coverage disqualify one from reporting legitimate and useful news stories? … administration to conflate news with opinion. … Good for Fox News. Good for Obama.…

Oct 21, 2009 – The late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings said the election was a giant hissy fit: "Ask parents of any 2-year-old and they can tell you … Liberal commentators are deaf to the tea partyers' disdain for both political parties, preferring to cast the protesters as a deranged … Meanwhile, as National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has argued, the Democrats have convinced themselves that the moral of Clinton's failed…

Oct 20, 2009 – A few days ago the story was pettish administration attacks on Fox News. … Nobody in the news media would do that -- not Keith Olbermann, not Jon Stewart, not Rachel Maddow. … The use of political muscle certainly isn't without precedent.…

Oct 19, 2009 – that policy and law should not be based on reason, fact and/or moral certainty, but on the infallible conclusions of judges or political … According to the National Center for Education Statistics, California, once the home of the best public elementary and secondary schools … The good news is that the state ranks first in average teachers salaries.…

Oct 19, 2009 – It really became apparent with his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. … The news broke that there was an extortion plot against him. … Don’t blame President Obama for the committee’s political rants.…

Oct 18, 2009 – Political and news junkies should check out the newly-redesigned site, NewsFifty.  … Also, unlike some websites which automatically aggregate news, NewsFifty has real-life editors culling from local and national newspapers…

Oct 18, 2009 – “Absolutely,” agrees John King, CNN’s "State of the Union” host and chief national correspondent. … King spends considerable time outside of Washington’s beltway, reporting the news. … Main Street Americans are baffled by these political elites’ perception of them.…

Nov 5, 2009 – That all changed when Obama gave the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. … At ABC, Charles Gibson predicted: “Last night, a political star may have been born.” … Weir looked heavenward for hyperbole to bolster the “World News” faithful.…

Nov 5, 2009 – Here's a solution to that problem: Stop watching cable TV news channels and listening to politicians. … Today, watching Fox News, you get the impression that huge numbers of Americans regard Obama as a Stalinist. … Fox News averages just 2.6 million viewers on a typical weeknight, or less than 1 percent of Americans.…

Nov 4, 2009 – Media Stars Carry Little Political Weight. … more than two decades of popularity as a locally bellowed TV news anchorwoman. … Politics is Local and Personal, Not National and Ideological.…

Nov 4, 2009 – Any New Yorker foolish enough to follow the political advice of The New York Times deserves what he gets. … A non-ideological national media would acknowledge that both Democrats and Republicans over the last several decades have shunned centrism … The first is the insincere consultants in the "news" media that try to rule it from the outside.…