More Biased Media Please
By Jeff Myhre04/30/2004
There is a fundamental belief in America that the press ought to be objective and unbiased. And it isn’t. On the right, one hears complaints against the “liberal media”; on the left, “the media are as liberal as the conservative corporations that own them allow” is a rather popular bumper sticker. This has come into sharp relief in the case of tonight’s “Nightline” broadcast.
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"A Giant Sucking Sound" 2004 Edition
By Stephen Macklin04/27/2004
The giant sucking sound made famous in the quixotic campaign of H. Ross Perot is back again in the 2004 presidential campaign. Except this year the sound isn't being created by jobs leaving the U.S. for Mexico. This campaign season the Giant Sucking Sound seems to be caused by the rapid movement away from John Kerry in the Democratic Party.
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Defending Teresa Heinz Kerry
By Mike Thomas04/27/2004
In response to a previous post by Mike Pechar about Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, I am compelled to post this rebuttal.
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Kerry diverts attention from medal issue
By Editor04/27/2004
You might expect Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to respond to the "Medalgate" charges with the truth. Did he or did he not throw his medals (or ribbons) away? And if not, we'd all like to see them. After all, Americans love to distrust politicians, many times for good reason.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry
By Mike Pechar04/26/2004
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette comes this story which presents a brief profile of John Kerry's wife. Born in Mozambique, schooled in South Africa and Europe, she is described as having an intense hatred for communism.
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Abortion march to hit D.C.
By Editor04/24/2004
Our nation's capitol will see tomorrow a large abortion march 12 years in the making. The "March for Women's Lives" in 1992 brought an estimated 500,000 out, and this year's march is expected to meet or exceed that number.
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Air America Radio Sputtering
By Mike Pechar04/21/2004
A previous post of mine described some of the troubles Air America Radio was having with Multicultural News Radio, owner of the Los Angeles and Chicago radio stations from which the liberal network was broadcasting. Well, according to this story, the troubles continue.
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Kerry's foreign endorsers
By Hunter Williams04/21/2004
On Sunday, John Forbes Kerry defended his statement that he has been secretly endorsed by foreign leaders, despite the fact that he has not gone abroad in two years. Kerry defended himself, clarifying “you can go to New York City and you can be in a restaurant and you can meet a foreign leader.” This odd statement invites investigation into the identity of those individuals endorsing this international man of mystery, John Kerry. Let’s take a look at some of the suspects:
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Let Iraq Be Iraq
By Marc C. Johnson04/20/2004
Iraq is Vietnam. Iraq isn't Vietnam. Iraq might be Vietnam. Well? The clock's ticking. Which is it?
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Terrorists now dubbed 'Insurgents'
By Editor04/20/2004
Watch out. Before you know it, we'll all be referring to a war on terrorism freedom fighters. It's already started. Instead of referring to what looks, walks and quacks like a terrorist a terrorist, the shift to "insurgents" and "guerrillas" has begun.
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O.K.C. and The War on Terror
By Darren Copeland04/19/2004
I was working for a Denver radio station in April of 1996 and got the word. Our talk show would be going to Oklahoma City to cover the one year anniversary of the Murrah Bombing. I was excited. This was my big break. Little did I know how much it would change my life.
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Bush Campaign: Independent Opinions are "Clutter"
By Amy Phillips04/19/2004
We've always known that President Bush doesn't have much respect for freedom of speech. Between the "free speech zones" that he uses to keep protesters out of his line of sight to his support for the global gag rule, it's clear that the marketplace of ideas doesn't matter much to our president. But a comment I read in the paper this morning from his media director Mark McKinnon makes it even more apparent that the Bush team considers free speech to be an obstacle, not a benefit in a free society.
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Ventura Floats Idea of Presidential Run
By Mike Pechar04/16/2004
During an interview with the Associated Press, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura hinted that he's toying with the idea of running as an Independent for the presidency in 2008.
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Bin Ladin's Real Agenda
By Marc C. Johnson04/15/2004
The Middle East Media Research Institute has an excellent (as always) translation of Bin Ladin's most recent statement. The conventional wisdom is that this statement is an attempt to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, encouraging a withdrawal by European states of their troops from the Middle East, betraying whatever residual trust may have existed between them and America.
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Executive Malpractice
By Tadlow Windsor II04/15/2004
Ask yourself how hard it would be for you to think of one or two mistakes you've made at your place of work over the past two years. It's not that difficult, is it?
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Attacking Free Enterprise - The Google Gmail Saga
By Michael Hussey04/15/2004
Gmail, the planned free e-mail service from Google, could be facing strong legal opposition in California. Another over-zealous, headline groping politician, Liz Figueroa of Freemont, California, apparently has a problem with Google and is taking a pot-shot at a company that owns the most popular internet property of all time. Google has the potential to be the next Microsoft, but not if people like Figueroa have anything to say about it.
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Rice's Testimony and the PDB
By Hunter Williams04/14/2004
My column for this week in the Independent Florida Alligator discusses Dr. Condoleeza Rice's testimony from last Thursday and the controversy surrounding the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB):
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Grasping at Straws to Blame Bush
By Stephen Macklin04/14/2004
Since the release of the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing some on the left have had the courtesy to drop the line that the Bush Administration had clear warning of 9/11 and did nothing about it. They have not had the decency to admit they were wrong or to apologize but at least some have stopped repeating it.
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Illegals Being Arrested
By Mike Pechar04/13/2004
Alabama State Troopers have been empowered by the Department of Homeland Security to arrest and detain illegal aliens. Using the "Immigration Law Handbook," troopers "have arrested 106 illegal immigrants, including a Mexican man driving 90 miles per hour and a Mexican mother of two who presented invalid documents while applying for a driver's license."
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9/11 Was Completely Preventable
By Jeff Myhre04/13/2004
An unpleasant myth is taking root in the American folklore regarding the Al-Qaeda attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. The hearings last week of the 9/11 Commission only enhanced the growth of this myth – that no one could have prevented the attacks. The word “lie” suggests a willful distortion, and so I will use the word “untruth” instead. The attacks need not have happened.
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Why are we still in Iraq?
By Mike Thomas04/12/2004
If you are apt to believe the Bush administration - an increasingly dubious proposition these days - the reason we went into Iraq, in defiance of the United Nations Security Council and against the better judgment of most of our international allies, was to topple Saddam Hussein and round up all of his weapons of mass destruction. As it became more and more clear that Hussein’s cache of WMDs was mostly a fiction that he helped perpetuate, the Bush administration stressed the importance of “freedom” for the Iraqi people as the chief rationale for the massive invasion.
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Japanese hostages not for trade
By Editor04/12/2004
Despite the hostages held in Iraq, the Japanese have proved that Iraqi terrorists are in no position to bargain for Japanese withdrawal. Good for them. It takes just one instance of weakness to show to the terrorists they are the ones with the upper-hand, and the upper-hand is precisely what the terrorists should and will not have.
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Iraq insurgency more widespread than Bush admin will admit
By Mike Thomas04/08/2004
The New York Times is reporting today that the anti-American uprising in Iraq is much broader than the Bush administration is acknowleding.
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Commercial Harp Seal Hunting
By Mike Pechar04/08/2004
With an estimated 5.2 million harp seals in the North Atlantic being blamed for diminishing codfish stocks and a renewed demand for harp seal fur, the Canadian government is allowing 1 million seals to be commercially harvested in the next three years. Naturally, animal rights groups from everywhere are outraged.
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IAEA Dodging Iranian Responsibility -- Again
By Marc C. Johnson04/07/2004
The Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, reported yesterday that International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei wishes that the United States and Iran would just start talking directly.
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Iraq may need UN support but not approval
By Editor04/07/2004
John Kerry two days ago unveiled an Iraq plan that requires UN approval.
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Bush's oversimplification of Iraq
By Mike Thomas04/07/2004
President Bush must still think he is speaking to a group of kindergarteners like he was on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Most Corporations Paid No Taxes in Late 90s Boom
By Jeff Myhre04/06/2004
The Wall Street Journal reported today that 60% of corporations in the US paid no corporate income taxes during the Clinton Boom of 1996 to 2000, according to the General Accounting Office. The report also says that in 2003, corporations kicked in a mere 7.4% of Washington’s revenues. – that’s the lowest rate since 1983 and the second lowest since 1934. This is why we need to keep a tax on dividends no matter what Mr. Bush says between now and November.
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The Choice of the Iraqi Sub-Minority
By Stephen Macklin04/06/2004
The more radical sect of Iraq's minority Shiite population - the sub-minority - has committed the now common terrorist error of underestimating the United States. They were openly critical of the idea of establishing a democratic nation in Iraq. They were calling for theistic state based, of course, on their version of Islam.
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Illegal Aliens Receive Rent Subsidies
By Mike Pechar04/05/2004
(Washington, D.C.) Foreign nationals are flooding the United States illegally because they know they can find work and because they'll receive free health and education benefits immediately. And now, it seems they can also count on help with their rent. According to this story, in Arlington County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, 2,500 rent-assistance grants worth more than $6 million are being doled out to illegal aliens every year.
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Warrant out for Muslim cleric's "arrest"
By Editor04/05/2004
An arrest warrant has been put out for a cleric inciting violent protests in Iraq against U.S. forces. And should he be "arrested," his followers have promised to fight back.
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Kerry is only for free trade where his fortune is concerned
By Michael Hussey04/04/2004
The most disturbing political attacks spewing from the droopy mouth of John Kerry are not the expected jibes over national security policy, but rather his stated disdain for free trade. Kerry’s economic ignorance aside, his anti-outsourcing routine is almost comical in light of the fact that his family’s lifeblood, Heinz Corporation, has outsourced 57 of their 79 factories to places like China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, and other such nations that Kerry exploits for political gain when decrying the loss of American jobs.
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Schröder Calls Outsourcing 'Unpatriotic'
By Mike Pechar04/04/2004
Jobs are being outsourced from Germany. This is due to high labor costs, taxes, and the expensive and unnecessary environmental policies. Examples include telecommunications, tire manufacturing, and automobile supply, and, according to the Financial Times Deutschland, 70,000 jobs in the information technology sector alone were lost in Germany over the past year.
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Terrorists cornered in Madrid
By Editor04/03/2004
Fox News reports on a report out of Spain that a Madrid building has been bombed. Following the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid last month, many are no doubt thinking terrorist ties. And because an Islamic militant related to the earlier attacks threatened to blow up the very same building in question, terrorist connections seem to be evident.
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Counting All the Votes
By Stephen Macklin04/03/2004
The state of Massachusetts, also known to many as Taxachusetts, has held an election of sorts in which every taxpayer has to vote. Taxpayers were given the option via a check-off on their state tax forms of opting to pay taxes at a higher rate. Checking the box results in a tax rate of 5.85% vs the standard rate of 5.3%.
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Jobs added in March bolster Bush economy
By Editor04/02/2004
The month of March saw the addition of 308,000 jobs, the most in a single month over the past four years. Bush told the news to supporters at Marshall University.
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Our Date With Condi Rice
By Stephen Macklin04/01/2004
The date has been set for the unprecedented testimony of National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice - April 8. It should be a good show and undoubtedly both sides of the aisle will walk out of the hearing saying their position has been vindicated. The right and the left will over look anything inconvenient to their cause.
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John Kerry - Hugging Trees Since 1970
By Mike Pechar04/01/2004
Last December, the League of Conservation Voters, the powerful environmental lobby group, published a report that rated the presidential candidates according to their pro-environment record. Here's a summary of John Kerry's environmental profile.
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Air America’s Dirty Secret
By Jeff Myhre04/01/2004
When Air America took to the air on March 31, the idea was to break the reactionary right’s lock on talk-radio in America. The media coverage largely has dealt with the personalities, whether it will have any effect on the election, and the media coverage of the media coverage. What just about everybody missed is Air America’s dirty little secret. In New York City, it took over WLIB (1190 AM) which has served the black community in the area for years.
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