Newsweek: Maybe BushChimpHitlerCo Got War on Terror Right

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 12th at 03:12 PM  | 

Newsweek’s Stuart Taylor and Evan Thomas take a look at Obama’s promises to roll back the ‘excesses of Executive Power’ that were the hallmark of the Bush administration (at least in the eyes of liberals like the writers at Newsweek). They conclude that Obama might not be able to take us back to September 10, because those ‘excesses’ might just be necessary to keep us | Read More »

Wanted: Skeptical Economists

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  December 19th at 02:22 PM  | 

According to the Associated Press, ‘only one outside economist contacted by Obama aides… voiced skepticism about the need for an economic stimulus.’ It turns out that that economist was Greg Mankiw (whose blog you ought to bookmark), and he advised President Bush — so his opinion is apparently of questionable value anyway. With that in mind, House Republican Leader John Boehner wants to hear from | Read More »

Media Malpractice?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  November 17th at 11:22 PM  | 

This is shocking, but not surprising: The video was prepared by John Ziegler, who also commissioned a poll to see what the average voter learned during the 2008 campaign. The result: 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) 82.6% could | Read More »