Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destructi...

The Washington Post embarrasses itself with this editorial by Yuval Levin, attacking Obama for abandoning Bush's cowardly stance on stem cell research. Embarrassment starts with the headline, "Science Over All?". Was that picked by the author? Given the tendency of stem cell research opponents inclu...

In a recent opinion piece that ran in The Washington Post, Ron Charles bases an argument for  young people's lack of intellect and sense of "suburban contentment" on the fact that bestselling titles on college campuses lean more towards the popular (Stephenie Meyer and J.K. Rowling for fiction; Ma...

Now for today's entertainment. Sen. David Vitter, the anti-gay Louisiana Republican implicated as a long--term client of prostitutes in the DC Madam scandal, returns to the news. With "his reelection campaign looming" the Washington Post reports the adulterous right-winger "seeks......

Barack Obama's barber "Zariff" has no last name and is suddenly in all the papers explaining that the president has GENUINE gray hair after just 44 days in office. Why? Zariff cut Obama's hair for 17 years. He still does, about every two weeks, so the president has presumably flown him out from Chic...

George Will has written an irresponsible article denying climate change (AKA global warming). Here’s the basic problem with George Will’s writing, as stated succinctly by The Wonk Room: In “Dark Green Doomsayers,�  Will attacked Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for discussing a worst-case sce...

Wednesday's Washington Post flooded the zone on the GOP's Rush Limbaugh "problem" on the front page -- and two hostile articles on the editorial page. But don't miss how the Post website has an animated political cartoon by liberal Ann Telnaes with a series of effeminate Republicans k...

In your deadly Tuesday media column: Arena is dead, Steven Brill is back to save journalism (with Emily???), the Washington Post tries to cut pay creatively, and our Martha Stewart feud continues: Arena , a 22 year-old men's magazine based in the UK, is being folded by Bauer publishing. Its final is...

All of a sudden, I think I maybe know why President Obama abandoned his Twitter account. To wit, it’s been a rough day for the Obama administration — and I’m not just referring to former Dallas mayor and U.S. trade representative-designate Ron Kirk’s tax issues — I refe...

"Love or Money" courtesy of Flickr user aymanshamma I guess I’m lucky I’ve always been a poor bastard. A quick post over at What’s Up Arlington, brought my attention to the front page story in this past Wednesday’s Washington Post. The headline read, “Market f...