Who Do You Trust? “Who do you trust? The HMO-coddling, drug-company loving, Medicare-destroying, Social-Security hating Bush Administration? Or do you trust the Democrats?”  — Senator Ted Kennedy, Dec. 8, 2001 THE HUFFINGTON POST GOT IT RIGHT. SORT OF. “Senator Calls Out Frank Luntz from the Senate Floor” read a June 10 headline on the national Internet news […]

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The press is the only private institution protected in the constitution of a nation whose creation was engendered by angry and eloquent newspaper editors and pamphleteers. Lauri Lebo is a former reporter and author of the Devil in Dover, her account of the “intelligent design” trial she covered for the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania. […]

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Mayors Cheer Single Payer—Most of the national news media missed the story in the last week of June: the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously endorsed a bill that would provide universal health care under a single-payer system. West Palm Beach Mayor Lois J. Frankel introduced a resolution to support HR 676, Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) […]

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Coming Attractions?—The only thing standing between David Bossie’s film Hillary, the Movie and box-office success is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which prohibits him from advertising it. “I can advertise if I don’t use Hillary’s name [or image],” Bossie told an audience of fifty at a free screening at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC convention in Washington, […]

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CNN NEWS ANCHOR ANDERSON COOPER BEGAN his wrap-up of the New Hampshire presidential primary by observing that it was “a remarkable night.” John McCain, who would refer to himself as “Lazarus,” had risen from the dead. And Hillary Clinton, who let down her guard and showed genuine emotion, defied pollsters and also ended up the […]

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