Feb 8, 2015 – Scientists aren’t experts on economics, and unbiased scientists never agree on such contentious matters.  … Yet politicians, mass media, and the public treat the models as providing temperature forecasts or predictions. … Because this misusage is never corrected, politicians cheerily continue to base expensive public policy on it.…

Feb 8, 2015 – Maureen Dowd — the queen of Knucklehead Row — has a column on the Brian Williams Lying Scandal this week. … (Hit the link on myth above for more.) … Cronkite “risked his career to go on TV and tell the truth,” and Edward R.…

Feb 8, 2015 – But by purposely drawing the fraught historical comparison on Thursday, Mr. … Obama ignited a firestorm on television and social media about the validity of his observations and the roots of religious conflicts … The British got on a very high horse, thank God, and they had the courage to act on their sense of moral superiority.…

Feb 8, 2015 – They’ve actually helped cut down on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and they make record keeping a lot … While pot shops aren’t on the federal list, Colorado officials are concerned that failing to disable ATMs at marijuana dispensaries … Democrats were also dubious about whether EBT cardholders were really blowing public dollars on pot.…

Feb 8, 2015 – That means there will be no report with a finding on his conduct, this person says. … And he has a prime forum coming up: An appearance scheduled for Thursday on CBS’s “Late Show” with David Letterman. … And he’s on before Wheel of Fortune at 7:00. I’m sticking with him.” Is that the calculation NBC is making?…

Feb 7, 2015 – On Jan. 30, an NBC Nightly News clip was posted to Facebook in which Williams repeated a story he had told previously about having … the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp,” Williams wrote on Facebook. … In a memo to staff on Friday, NBC News Deborah Turness wrote that a team of people was working to “make sense” of the incident.…

Feb 7, 2015 – the president to relax about medieval Catholicism and focus his concerns on contemporary Islamism–but rather on what we’re supposed … There’s a lot of this around, especially on college campuses, and it’s got a lot of popular support.  … As I was working on this post, a visiting rabbi at our synagogue gave a dazzling commentary on this week’s Torah portion (which includes…

Feb 7, 2015 – On Thursday, a former county prosecutor told the media that he had been talking to the New Jersey US attorney’s office about an incident … on Thursday. … back on various reports that had picked up on the IBT story, including one from The Hill.…

Feb 7, 2015 – In his speech on Thursday, he said: Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history.  … But how is Obama himself doing on that score? … The research centers on countries outside the US’s declared war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.…

Feb 7, 2015 – ” Scott Jones of FTVLive, which describes itself as “must read for anyone that works or wants to work in TV News” and “the first media … From that moment until today NBC has been on one very long, very slow motion slide to this moment. … monopoly once held by liberals in the media has been destroyed, gone for good.…

Feb 7, 2015 – The network has initiated two different investigations into some of the claims made on air by Williams over the past years. … all of you and on this proud organization.” … I was wearing a breathing apparatus, conducting a search on my hands and knees, when I felt something warm, squishy and furry on the…

Feb 7, 2015 – answer, as most readers here can guess, is that any violation by anybody is only worthy of coverage if it advances the preferred media … The State Bar of North Dakota had misused mandatory dues to oppose a public referendum on a rebuttable presumption of shared parenting … The media likes First Amendment stories…when they are about suppression of PC approved speech.…

Feb 6, 2015 – So maybe nobody working on the program now was working on it then. … Hardly anything on TV at the Brian Williams level is accidental. … (Photo atop post based on a modified AP image.)…

Feb 6, 2015 – something warm, squishy and furry on the floor of a closet. … Williams’ original reporting of his helicopter exploits is on videotape — you can watch it here. … (As with Kerry before him, as someone noted on Twitter today, “Apparently Brian Williams & legacy media in general ignore that a lot…

Feb 6, 2015 – “While I have no new information today on Kayla’s current situation, I do know from speaking regularly with her family that she is … “I ask that the news media please respect the privacy of the Mueller family at this difficult time, and for all Americans to say a … “On August 3, 2013, a technician sent by a company contracted by MSF arrived at one of the organization’s structures in Aleppo, Syria…

Feb 6, 2015 – increases as well as employment numbers as it weighs whether to raise interest rates this year, and strong job creation data released on … Friday shifted Wall Street bets on the timing of a hike to September from October. … The media cheerleaders for the Obama economy take everything on faith, however, and spin the day away for their messiah.…

Feb 6, 2015 – Jordan unleashed punishing airstrikes on the Islamic State this week, and today ISIS claimed that one of those strikes killed an … The name of the 26-year-old has not been released in the media at the request of her family, but the ISIS statement published a name … claimed that the air worker was alone in a building during Friday prayers when the “Crusader alliance” launched “continuous raids on…

Feb 6, 2015 – The New York Post on Thursday quoted an NBC source who said Brokaw wanted Williams’ “head on a platter” and had suggested a more junior … Rather, who was embroiled in his own media scandal, said Thursday that Williams “is an honest, decent man, an excellent reporter and…

Feb 6, 2015 – international flights on Nov. 9, FBI Special Agent Daniel Higgins said in court papers. … The charge of making false statements against Ahmed, a Minneapolis resident, was unsealed on Thursday.  … There’s a difference, and as much as the politically correct media tries to pretend there isn’t, it’s worth maintaining.…

Feb 6, 2015 – Bernstein on November 19, 2014: 5 Leaders of the New Conservative Counter-Culture Dave Swindle on November 25, 2014: 7 Reasons Why … Thanksgiving Will Be My Last Day on Facebook Dave Swindle on December 2, 2014: My Growing List of 65 Read-ALL-Their-Books Authors … Smith on January 29, 2015: Objection!…

Feb 6, 2015 – Bernstein on November 19, 2014: 5 Leaders of the New Conservative Counter-Culture Dave Swindle on November 25, 2014: 7 Reasons Why … Thanksgiving Will Be My Last Day on Facebook Dave Swindle on December 2, 2014: My Growing List of 65 Read-ALL-Their-Books Authors … Smith on January 29, 2015: Objection!…

Feb 6, 2015 – Everybody’s on the same page, justice-wise, and only want to serve the truth. … That incident was captured on video. … And that’s how media bias works. First, find a story that has all the components of the current meme-du-jour.…

Feb 5, 2015 – science on a most important subject: that the Earth is on its way to overheating, with catastrophic consequences to follow, due to … There is, in other words, virtually no science on the side of the anti-vaccine camp. … Both Christie and Paul walked back their first comments on the potential dangers of vaccinations, and Paul got a vaccination on camera…

Feb 5, 2015 – (AP Photo/Richard Drew) It’s all fun and games in the ozone layer of the elite media until the public catches you cooking the books … The New York Post’s Page Six on the man who coined the phrase “The Greatest Generation” versus his successor, who’s been living out … “Brokaw wants Williams’ head on a platter,” an NBC source said.…

Feb 5, 2015 – He did it on Letterman, did it on the NBC Nightly News.  You know I’ve always liked Brian Williams. … On the PJM homepage this afternoon, Tom Blumer concurs. … Shortly after Taylor’s post, Fordham revised the related web page, adding a note that “on Feb. 4, 2015, Brian Williams issued an on-air…