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5) Protesters are Anti-GovernmentThe media and the left portray tea parties as “anti-government” because it undermines a patriotic grassroots movement. Tea partiers aren’t anti-government, they are anti-big government. That’s just not the story journalists tell. The “anti-government” theme is strong, cropping up in more than two dozen stories in The …

President Obama has repeatedly promised not to second guess the interrogation methods, or seek to punish interrogators, who were acting in good faith when following orders while questioning terrorists and enemy combatants captured and detained during the Bush administration. Recently, Democratic lawmakers — in direct contradiction to what the president …

Haiti bears the brunt of natural disasters over and over again. In recent years a hurricane wiped out roads that then turned to mud and left people stranded for days. Once the immediate crisis was over their businesses and farms were destroyed. Now this devastating earthquake, once again, lays bear …

On the same day President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., The Washington Post published a curious story by Anne E. Kornblut on the role religion plays in the Obama White House. If we’re to believe Kornblut and the long list of oh-so-helpful unnamed Obama advisers …

Technology evolves in unpredictable ways. When the first functioning lasers were created, scientists applauded the technical achievement, but no one knew what to do with them. They were called “a solution looking for a problem.” Today, you’d be hard pressed to find an American home without one or two buried …

In what appears to be an indirect upbraiding of Gen. McChrystal for speaking publicly on Afghanistan at a prominent think tank in London last week, Defense Secretary Gates on Monday said that any official taking part in the current White House debate on Afghanistan should provide his advice to the …

There has been a fundamental change in American foreign policy under President Obama– a change that until now, has been little recognized. One of the core principles of American policy, that has guided presidents of both parties over the past fifty years, has been largely reversed under the current administration. …

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:25:30 +0000 – By Noel SheppardAssociate Editor, Media Research Center’s Newsbusters.org Although the Obama-loving press cheered the House vote Wednesday night approving the new president’s economic stimulus package, the end result was a resounding defeat for a man who promised on the campaign trail to bring …

As we predicted last week, President Obama is using moral arguments to push through congress at lightning speed his health care reform bill. In every one of his many interviews over the last week, the president has explained his insistence on immediate passage of the bill by referencing his moral …

One job of journalists is, to borrow a horse racing phrase, to “call the turns” of developing news. Yesterday, the White House press corps called the end of the Obama honeymoon. By peppering the President with forceful questions on Iran and other big topics and by challenging some of his …