NPR’s blog The Two-Way is running the apology of public-radio producer Sarah Spitz, who claimed to her fellow liberals on JournoList she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” if Rush Limbaugh were dying in front of her. But they also wanted to insist that her ties with NPR were few: In fact, Spitz has never been an NPR employee. For many years, she has worked for KCRW , a public radio station in Santa Monica, California, as a producer and publicist. KCRW is one of some 900 independently-operated public radio stations across the country that air NPR’s news, talk and …
Pacifica Radio, funded in part by federal grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has a habit of ruining the patriotic holidays with their programming. On Memorial Day, their show “Democracy Now” hosted radical leftist Noam Chomsky railing against the “grand criminal” Ronald Reagan . On July 5, while many were still warmly recalling the Independence Day fireworks displays, “Democracy Now” aired a special interview with leftist filmmaker Michael Moore , who concluded by suggesting taxpaying Americans (even anti-war taxpaying Americans) aren’t getting into Heaven due to their government’s warmongering. Moore said he would…
Corrections Corporation of America, the largest contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has offered to soften confinement, free of charge, at nine immigrant facilities covering more than 7,100 beds, the start of changes to come in other ICE detention sites.
June 17, 2010 | Posted in
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**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Michelle Obama’s unwaivering committment to ensuring that our kids don’t get too fat to join the military rolls on unabated. The Let’s Move program has been going on for some time, but now it’s being extended to include summer vacation. The motivation to move forward came as a result of one of the kids asking with great concern, “Mommy, have you plugged their pieholes yet?” : CHICAGO — School is out for much of the country, and…
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Daily Kos boss Markos Moulitsas is scheduled to appear on Jake Tapper’s Sunday roundtable on This Week tomorrow. It would be great — although the odds are very slim — if Tapper would quote some of this Daily Kos bilge and ask Moulitsas to defend it. This Saturday morning post by Karen Hedwig Backman imagined Dick Cheney as a malevolent Angel of Death. It’s called “Dick Cheney’s Dismal Swamp of Death,” and is so overwrought it’s unintentionally funny: A vast sea of dead and dying…
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” The Pew Poll this week that has everyone talking shows voter distrust of government at an all time high. Congress, federal agencies, the political parties, etc. are all massively distrusted and loathed by the voters. Correspondingly, we have seen news story after news story and Democrat after Democrat come out and tell us the reason for the distrust and loathing is “Republican rhetoric” and tea party activists. The Democrats and many talking heads in the media have…
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“Red Eye” host Greg Gutfeld on Saturday said the media’s response to the nation’s anger over healthcare reform was totally predictable. “I’ve been down this road so many times I could navigate it blindfolded and covered in peanut butter,” Gutfeld marvelously wrote at his blog. “It goes like this: for the media, anger is only okay if its targets meet their stereotypical, romanticized criteria. Meaning: the corporation, the conservative, the daddy who never loved them.” Gutfeld then marvelously offered “a list of people doing angry things the media is okay with” (h/t Glenn Reynolds ): -People calling Bush a Nazi -Students and non students rioting on college campuses -Animal rights freaks dousing rich folks with paint -Actors wishing average folks would get rectal cancer -Bureaucrats labeling military vets as potential violent right wing extremists -Radical environmentalists advocating violence against loggers -Pranksters throwing pies at conservative commentators (you know, somehow they never pie Michael Moore, which makes him sad; he likes pie) But this health care bill anger is different from all that – not just because it’s right, but because it involves Obama. And being angry at Obama is like being mad at Santa Claus. How can you be mad at Santa, when he brings us so many gifts? And so, this anger is scary! It’s a mark of incivility! It’s deadly! Interesting, isn’t it? After all, the media typically love protests and acts of civil disobedience. Yet, we’ve learned since Obama was elected that most members of the press only like such acts when they demonstrate antipathy for what they themselves dislike. As such, protests are only good when the media agree with the protesters. Sadly, this is what makes most of them advocates and NOT journalists. Bravo, Greg!
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A March 25 article in the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen announced the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is setting up seven regional reporting projects, called Local Journalism Centers. Each center will hire editors and reporters to work on local issues using federal funds from public broadcasting. The Centers represent the government’s first, small steps into the journalism business. A recent Business and Media Institute study examined how many liberal journalists and politicians have been advocating for a federal bailout for the struggling newspaper industry. The report pointed out that government involvement is wrong and is clearly in violation of the 1st amendment, since government aid equals government control. When General Motors was bailed out, Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner was ousted. A large share of Chrysler was put under union control. The government is still demanding salary control over even those financial institutions that paid back the TARP money. It is impossible to imagine that, given a stake in the news media, the government wouldn’t engage in the same arbitrary behavior. The BMI study stated, “One cannot have a successful democracy without a free press.” But setting up the Local Journalism Centers, is not free press. Jensen reported that the CPB will give $7.5 million in over two years. Another $3 million will come from local stations. CPB’s president, Patricia Harrison, did state eventually the centers would be “self-sustaining.” But no timeline was given.
President of the Toyota Motor Corporation, Akio Toyoda, prepared the following testimony for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday.
February 24, 2010 | Posted in
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America has the second-highest corporate tax rate on Earth. But rather than cutting rates, why not suspend the Corporation Income Tax altogether?
