The Republican National Committee (RNC) is testing its 2012 media strategy on Tuesday by rolling out a new video that uses Democrats’ and supporters’ words to contrast presidential candidate Barack Obama’s promises with his accomplishments. (more)
In his Friday Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer criticized the president for waging class warfare on the so-called “1 percent” and likened the brand of populism he offered in a speech last week to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, and not Teddy Roosevelt, which the backdrop of the Kansas speech suggested was who he was attempting to mimic. (more)
On Nov. 18, a self-promotional advertisement appearing in the print edition of the Northern Virginia-based Politico.com made the case that the news website was the “top read,” both in print and online, for Washington, D.C. insiders and influencers. On Tuesday, Washington Post blogger Erik Wemple checked Politico’s math and declared it unequivocally fuzzy. (more)
“Nothing drives this blog quite as crazy as media organizations that don’t answer questions about their own journalism.” (more)
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t taking charges leveled in a recent Washington Post article lightly. The Post suggested that Rubio “embellished” details about his parents being Cuban exiles, something he says is untrue. (more)
Congress’ job approval has dropped to tie with the all-time low ever measured, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. (more)
Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry would do the most damage to the economy if elected president, voters believe, while Mitt Romney and Herman Cain would do the most to improve the economy, according to a poll released Monday. (more)
The idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might hire as many as 230,000 new bureaucrats to staff a regulatory regime related to greenhouse gases is, without question, a shock to the system. (more)
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a fan of the Washington Redskins. In fact, there was a time in the mid-to-late 1980s when I was consumed with hatred for the team, one that was fueled in no small part by suffocating local news coverage that elevated every win or loss to the level of an international political crisis. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post may close six of its regional bureaus in Maryland and Virginia as office leases expire next year but will maintain bureaus in the state capitals. (more)
Were you ever blackballed for a job by the mainstream media? I want to hear from you. (more)
On Monday, The Washington Post reprinted a graph comparing the deficit impact of policies signed into law by President Bush with those signed by President Obama. (more)
On Wednesday, as House Speaker John Boehner was twisting arms to get so-called “Tea Party” members of his caucus to go along with his less aggressive plan, many on the right were crying foul and calling for a revolt against the Republican leader. (more)
Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks offered a scathing rebuke of congressional Republicans’ stand on the debt ceiling, saying the GOP is undermining their its position by not budging on raising taxes. (more)
A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told The Daily Caller that the Washington Post is the only news organization to bite on new misleading sentiments from the Justice Department. (more)
The reliably liberal Washington Post editorial board ripped President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for its campaign against the Boeing Company in its Sunday column. The NLRB is trying to force Boeing to move a plant it recently built in South Carolina to Washington State. One of the many reasons Boeing says it built the plant in South Carolina, instead of its current base of operations in Washington State, is because recent machinists union strikes caused disruptions with workflow and productivity. (more)
These are dangerous times for Israel and the Jewish people. Anti-Semitism — especially the anti-Semitism that cloaks itself as anti-Zionism — is thriving. Visit the United Nations, most world capitals or America’s college campuses and you would think that Israel is the most bloodthirsty power on the world stage. Politics aside, decent people should be able to agree that this increasing demonization of Israel is a dangerous trend. (more)
The New York Times and the Washington Post issued open calls on Thursday asking their readers to help them “investigate” emails from Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor of Alaska. There was no indication of what this investigation was supposed to uncover. (more)
Republicans appear to be unenthusiastic about the Republican presidential candidates in the race for the White House or considering a run, according to a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll. (more)
In his encyclical Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason”), John Paul II made the following observation: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to contemplation of the truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know Himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” (more)
