Complain about McCain, not CNN

Some radio talk-show hosts and Republican bloggers have been complaining that the CNN/YouTube debate was stacked against the Republican presidential candidates who participated in it. There is evidence, they point out, that some of the questioners posing as voters were Democratic political operatives. But I don’t think this constitutes a major journalistic scandal. Read more

Americans pay for emerging world government

In its new Human Development Report calling for another $86 billion in aid to the rest of the world, supposedly to fight the effects of climate change, the United Nations acts distressed that people in “rich” countries like the U.S. don’t take the theory of man-made global warming more seriously. Its answer ― and this is actually spelled out in the report ― is that too much “editorial balance” in the media has prevented “informed debate” about the need for “urgent action” in the form of higher taxes on energy. Read more

Stephanopoulos tricks Fred Thompson

Sitting in for Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham gave Jeri Thompson a powder puff interview on Tuesday night but it won’t be enough to save her husband, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson. “Fred Dead?” was a topic on Brit Hume’s Fox News show, which aired earlier in the evening. Thompson is dead politically mainly because of his flip-flops and incredible lack of knowledge and sensitivity on the right-to-life issue. Read more

Politicians pander using taxpayers’ money

The United States Senate is preparing to vote for a bill that will authorize the feds to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars to radical feminists. It’s believed that Democrats and Republicans will attempt to “bribe” female voters with huge handouts that have little basis in fact. Read more

Fred Thompson is finished

Fred Thompson looked much too relaxed on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” interview with Tim Russert. He was nonchalant to the point of apathy about one of his key supporters being a convicted drug trafficker and his positions on rights for the unborn and the disabled were embarrassing in their lack of intellectual depth. Read more

Securing and rebuilding Iraq

Since 2003, the Congress has obligated nearly $400 billion for US efforts in Iraq, of which about $40 billion has supported reconstruction and stabilization efforts. Read more

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