Category Archives: Wonky Media

AP Tries The “More Supply Doesn’t Decrease Price” Trick

Statistics can tell you anything you want (WRAL) It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show. A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil […]

About That “Obama Reaches 50% Approval” Poll…

Al Reuters breathlessly tells us that the guy presiding over the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and making a serious hash of it rocks For the first time since early July, more Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing than disapprove, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows his […]

Media Works Hard To Protect Obama On Gas Prices

The 90% liberal/Democrat media is sure to do all in its power to protect (NMP) Obama regarding the rising gas prices, which have been high for the majority of Obama’s time in office, and that protection is starting at the Washington Post, which forgets that its cost of doing business is going up and profits […]

CNN: Even Evil Guys Like Rush Deserve Their Free Speech Rights

Think I’m kidding about the evil part? Alas, no (CNN) Editor’s note: Marc J. Randazza is a Las Vegas based First Amendment attorney. He is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts and Nevada. He is the editor of the law blog, The Legal Satyricon. I despise Rush Limbaugh. I despise almost everything I […]

USA Today Picks Up The Mantle That Obama’s Not At Fault For Gas Prices

Ah, how times change Anyhow What can U.S. do to halt rising gas prices? Not much Rising gas prices are always a bad thing for an incumbent president, especially one heading into a tough re-election battle. But President Obama admitted in a speech in Miami recently that there’s not all that much he can do […]

Washington Post: It’s Like Totally Dangerous That Obama Doesn’t Talk About Climate Change Thay Much

No, seriously, that’s the headline A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric Perhaps Obama’s just tired of discussing the weather President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday was a prime example of this shift. The president said “climate change” just once —compared with zero mentions in the 2011 address and two in 2010. […]

Eugene Robinson: Extreme Rick Santorum Shouldn’t Be Let Near White House

One thing that I have missed during the King Obama years has been the truly unhinged lefties being unhinged. They were a lot more fun when Bush was president, but, hey, with the 2012 silly season in full swing, they are coming out of the woodwork (Washington Post) Before there was the Tea Party to […]

New Hampshire “Scientists” Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax

The Warmists just won’t give up their cultish beliefs, and The Hill is there to run with the story without any fact checking Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the “overwhelming” scientific evidence behind climate change. The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 […]

Washington Post: Hey, Why Is Occupy So Darned Whitebread?

The Washington Post’s headline is actually Why blacks aren’t embracing Occupy Wall, but, it might as well have asked why the Occupiers are 98.4% pale faces Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for […]

College Grads Moving Back Home Damages Trickle Down Economics

(A little bit of serendipity. I wrote this one earlier in the morning, and just heard Rush talking about it as I was headed home from the gym.) And, if you are a woman, you are in big trouble, because you aren’t buying all sorts of womanly stuff (NY Times) Like most of her friends, […]

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