Posted by Morbo Saturday’s Boston Globe reported on the latest effort by the “religious left” to get its act together. (If Carpetbagger were here, he’d give you the link; I was unable to find it at the Globe’s site, www.boston.com. Try Google news.) Anyway, leaders of this movement make an interesting point. Why is it […]
Posted by PWalker For once, I have to agree with Bill O’Reilly: Dan Got Smeared: It may be true that Rather did not vet the information supplied to him by producers, but few anchor people do. They are dependent on other journalists, and this is a huge flaw in the system. […] Dan Rather did […]
Posted by Morbo Last week, the American Family Association (www.afa.net) issued a warning to parents about the movie “Shark Tale.” Apparently, the AFA, headed by the Rev. Donald Wildmon in Tupelo, Miss., believes the movie is designed to brainwash children into accepting gay rights. The group came to this conclusion because “Shark Tale” deals with […]
Posted by Nili This is my first guest post, and I want to thank Carpetbagger for asking me. I am a great fan of the blog and of the ‘bagger himself. Now, on with the show. I hate to fan the flames of this any longer, but Frank Rich at The New York Times did […]
Posted by Morbo The idea behind the progressive income tax is pretty simple: You make more money, you pay a higher tax rate. If you’re a finance titan, professional athlete or even a trust-fund baby who pulls in hundreds of millions a year, a 30 percent tax rate isn’t going to kill you. You can […]
I’m a Meet the Press junky. It seems like every week there’s some news made on the program. Here’s one admission I never expected to hear from Jerry Falwell: DR. JERRY FALWELL: Because I’m a Democrat. I don’t vote Republican. I vote Christian. And I believe that he is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Israel, strong national defense, […]
Posted by PWalker Hopefully your Thanksgiving was better than this. But maybe you could relate to Maureen Dowd’s description: It’s lovely – if you enjoy hearing about how brilliant Ann Coulter is, how misguided The New York Times’s editorial page is, and how valiant the president is as he tries to stop America’s slide into […]
Posted by Morbo Progressives have good reason to feel depressed about the outcome of the 2004 elections. President George W. Bush was reelected, and Republicans expanded their majorities in the House and Senate. So is it time to put your head in the oven or flee to Canada? Or should you flee to Canada and […]
Posted by Morbo A wire service story making the rounds concerns a man in Worchester, Mass., who stabbed two relatives during a Thanksgiving Day dispute over table manners. Morbo supports the right to use deadly force when appropriate. However, there is some dispute as to whether this was an appropriate case. With that thought in […]
Posted by Morbo It’s not every day that you hear a staffer from the Heritage Foundation on CNN demanding more government regulation of industry. Yet that is exactly what Rebecca Hagelin did recently. Appearing on Aaron Brown’s nightly newscast, Hagelin, no less than a vice president at Heritage, insisted that the Federal Communications Commission must […]